In fact, it is not one thing to burn books and bury Confucianism in history. In fact, it is a general term for burning poetry books and burying magicians. These two things happened one year before and after.
Let's learn about burning books first!
Background of book burning: Qin Shihuang annexed six countries and established the first unified empire in history-after the Qin Dynasty, he considered himself a doer and called himself Qin Shihuang. However, since Qin Shihuang annexed six countries, the world has not been peaceful. In the process of governing the country, he found that the atmosphere of a hundred schools of thought contended has not disappeared since the Warring States Period. Qin Shihuang, who discovered this, was very unhappy, because he felt that he was ruling the country, working hard and no one could beat him, so his thoughts should be widely circulated. Therefore, in 2 13 BC, in order to consolidate the rule of Daqin and further restrict the people's thoughts, he ordered the burning of poetry books nationwide.
Impact: Except for Qin history books, medicine, divination and agricultural classics, the books that Qin Shihuang ordered to be burned were all folk collections, and other books were uniformly handed in and kept in the National Library, so a large number of ancient literature books were not lost because of burning books. From this point of view, Qin Shihuang's burning of books did not actually bring much influence at that time.
After burning the book, let's take a look at the matter of burying Confucianism.
The so-called cheating Confucianism is not the children of Confucianism as we think, but some Taoist magicians.
Background: The matter of burying Confucianism should start with Qin Shihuang's fascination with Taoism and his immortality.
Qin Shihuang was obsessed with immortality in his later years, so he looked around for alchemists to refine the elixir for him. Those magicians know that there is no panacea that can make people live forever, and they can only deceive Qin Shihuang with lies. Two of them, named Lv Sheng and Hou Sheng, ran away for fear that Qin Shihuang would blame them for not finding the elixir of life. You said you escaped, the key is that these two people are still speaking ill of Qin Shihuang behind his back. After hearing this, Qin Shihuang flew into a rage and ordered the pit killing of more than 460 related magicians in 2 12 BC.
Impact: Was Qin Shihuang buried alive? Forbidden people? For more than 460 people, cheating? It's really inhuman, but it makes sense to think about the torture invented by the Qin Dynasty, such as cutting waist and splitting cars. It's just that his atrocities accelerated the collapse of the Daqin Empire, instead of killing all the Confucian scholars in the world.
To sum up, the so-called book burning was a means for Qin Shihuang to further unify his thoughts; Pit Confucianism is a blow to Taoist magicians who cheat and abuse themselves. It can only be said that he had too much tyranny before his death, which misled people's views on this matter.
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