The so-called burning books to bury Confucianism means burning all Confucian classics and burying all Confucian scholars who study Confucian culture in the pit. This is of course an inhuman thing, and it is also something that our descendants constantly condemn and attack Qin Shihuang. So why did Qin Shihuang burn books to bury Confucianism? After all, Qin Shihuang, as the first 1 unified emperor of China, should not be stupid.
In fact, it is to control the minds of ordinary people. Because Qin Shihuang practiced legalism in the whole country at that time, that is, he used harsh criminal law to regulate the daily life of ordinary people. Once someone broke the law, he would be punished with the criminal law of ophthalmology. Confucian culture did not apply to China at that time in Qin Shihuang's view.
So did Qin Shihuang burn all the Confucian classics at that time? Actually, it's not. At that time, Qin Shihuang's campaign of burning books and burying Confucianism was huge all over the country, but the descendants of Confucius still secretly hid some Confucian classics in a wall, knowing that Qin Shihuang's burning books and burying Confucianism had passed, and they were still discovering this wall.
Fortunately, it's that wall, because we have left a lot of Confucian books now, otherwise Confucian culture may really be cut off. No matter what dynasty, destroying books is a very bad behavior, because books are the carrier of culture, and many cultures can circulate continuously in the world, just through the spread of books. Once books are destroyed, a culture may disappear, which is a very bad thing.