In ancient times, not all Confucian scholars were buried, and not all Confucian classics were burned. Burning books to bury Confucianism, as an important point of criticizing Qin Shihuang later, has also been distorted a lot. It seems that it is only aimed at Confucian cultural policies, but it is not. Although the Qin Dynasty respected the Legalists and obeyed their will in all fields, and most of the courtiers were Legalists, Confucianism was not the target of the Qin Dynasty, and even Confucian scholars were recorded as officials. The reason why there will be an incident of burning books to bury Confucianism can be summarized as follows: first, burning books is the elimination of old culture and old ideas in the past; Second, deceiving Confucianism is a punishment for slander. First, burning books is the elimination of old culture and old ideas in the past. Book burning originated from the dispute between Yue and Li Si. Yue believed that the feudal system of the former dynasty should be restored to stabilize the local area. Li Si raised a very strong objection to this, thinking that the enfeoffment system was a thing of the past, while emphasizing? Five emperors don't mend fences, and three generations don't attack each other? This debate not only laid the foundation for the county system, a local system that lasted for thousands of years, but also became the connotation will of burning books.
As a new feudal autocratic country, the Qin dynasty needs to vigorously eliminate the aristocratic culture in the past, because those old cultures may become potential resistance factors, so burning books is not even aimed at books, but at those? Take the past as the present? Characters, punishment even to the point of copying the door.
2. Pit Confucianism is a punishment for slander and fallacy. Qin Huang is a man who is keen on alchemy, and his cheating began with the event that the alchemist fled after his alchemy failed. So many dissenting Confucian was furious and said such a sentence? Those born in Xianyang, should I make people ask, or should I speak? .
From this sentence, we can find that all the swindlers and treacherous people who were victimized by Qin Shihuang, like those alchemists, took libel and falsehood as a warning. There may indeed be Confucian scholars among them, but what if they were called? Pit Confucianism? There is indeed a suspicion of generalizing.