Seal and Ribbon Are Not Two Offices
The two characters of yinshou may appear together but refer to different things: the seal and the ribbon used to wear it. Granting yinshou is not two appointments; reclaiming it is not merely losing a personal possession.
Read granting and reclaiming together with the titles and penalties in the same passage. The public note says “often means” and “may mean,” not that every recorded grant or recovery has the same outcome.
Credentials and Ability to Act Are Separate Questions
Chapter One's opening pairs seal and ribbon with titles, but later the army does not necessarily keep obeying officials who still hold a title. This gap shows the distance between credentials and actual execution.
For a narrative of receiving or returning seal and ribbon, first ask whether it means accepting office or expressing refusal. Then check whether the text states the actual appointment outcome; one action cannot supply the whole course. This is a reading method, not a new conclusion in institutional history.
Do Not Treat One Seal as All Power
Possessing a seal does not mean control of every army; its recovery does not automatically establish arrest or death. This page does not infer seal shape, material, grade, or ownership of an excavated seal, since the six public notes do not supply these matters.