When it comes to burning books, most people will think of Qin Shihuang and the literary inquisition in the Qing Dynasty. In fact, in the history of China, books were burned on a large scale more than these times. A book burning in the Northern and Southern Dynasties was also a catastrophe in the cultural history, but other dynasties burned books under autocratic rule in the ideological and cultural fields, and the causes of this book burning were completely different. The Northern and Southern Dynasties was a turbulent period in the history of China, and the imperial court changed like lanterns. However, as in the Three Kingdoms period, the political and social turmoil did not hinder the development of culture, and some rulers in this period also had high cultural literacy. For example, several emperors in the Southern Liang Dynasty, although their ability to rule the country and level the world was in a mess, all loved literature and gathered a group of scholars around them, which looked elegant. Xiao Yi, the protagonist of this book burning incident, was the seventh son of Liang Wudi Xiao Yan, the founding emperor of Liang Dynasty. He likes writing poems and papers as much as his father and brother. Although the palace poems they were keen on were of low style and despised by later generations, they were popular in the literary world at that time. Xiao Yi is a "paranoid, has nothing to do with fame, a little better than himself will be destroyed". Although it is flesh and blood, it is also tired of it. At the end of Liang Wudi's post-Beijing Rebellion, Xiao Yi had ulterior motives, and his father and brother besieged their opponents and were killed successively. Then, he killed several brothers and finally won the throne in 552 AD. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Only two years after the reign of the emperor, the Western Wei Dynasty invaded Jiangling, the capital of the Liang Dynasty, and was also captured and lost his life.