Events related to book burning

In Chinese history, there is a very interesting cultural phenomenon: book burning, and the crime of burning books throughout the ages has been attributed to Qin Shihuang. In fact, book burning was not the first initiative of Qin Shihuang, nor was it the only example of Qin Shihuang. In ancient Chinese history, there are four famous "book burnings" recorded in history. After Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty came to the throne, from 1773 to 1782, he organized more than 360 famous literati and scholars, which lasted 10 years, to compile an unprecedented large-scale series of books in my country's feudal era - "Sikuquanshu". The publication of "Sikuquanshu" played an important role in preserving China's ancient cultural classics and spreading ancient academic culture. However, the fundamental purpose of Emperor Qianlong's compilation of books was to promote cultural absolutism in order to consolidate the rule of the Qing Dynasty. When he started compiling the book, he twice proposed that ancient books that should be "destroyed" should be destroyed and those that should be "delete" should be deleted. As a result, some books are often altered beyond recognition. According to statistics, in the 10 years of compilation, books were destroyed 24 times in Zhejiang Province alone, with as many as 13,862 books of 538 types destroyed; Haicheng, the governor of Jiangxi, confiscated them only in the 41st year of Qianlong (1776) More than 8,000 books were burned. Throughout the Qianlong period, the Communist Party burned as many as 710,000 volumes of various books. It can be seen that the book burning event during the Qianlong Dynasty was the largest book burning event in Chinese feudal society.