to hand down an imperial edict

Nanzhao kingdom 738-937 in southwest China and southeast Asia

to receive an imperial command

secret imperial edict

to respond to an imperial decree

expert in a specialized field such as medicine, divination or chess, available on call to the emperor (in the Tang and Song dynasties)

the pretense of acting on imperial order

posthumous edict (of former emperor)

posthumous edict of a former emperor; Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备[Liu2 Bei4] edict to posterity