During the Warring States period, the vassal states went their own way, minted their own money and had their own knives, such as gold and ant nose money from Chu, square ruler cloth from Yan, pointed cloth from Zhao, bridge ruler cloth from Wei and money from Qin. Coins have different shapes, weights, advantages and disadvantages, and are difficult to convert, which caused great difficulties in the circulation of goods at that time.
Qin Shihuang was called "an emperor through the ages" by later generations, and he was a great statesman with foresight. In order to unify the country, he finally unified the national currency in the thirty-seventh year of the first emperor (2 10 BC).
Second, unified measurement.
After the reunification of Qin, the system of balance of power still followed the previous generation. However, the systems of weights and measures in various countries are quite chaotic, and the units of measurement are very inconsistent. Qin Shihuang unified weights and measures in a comprehensive reform.
After Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, unified measurement was officially announced, which made the length, volume and weight have unified standards. After reunification, the weights and measures system of the Qin Dynasty took inch, ruler, ruler and quotation as units, and took ten as the carry system. In terms of measurement system, it is based on decimal system, such as drum, combination, liter, bucket and barrel (welcome); In the weighing system, baht, taels, gold, jun and stone are used as units, with a carry of 24 baht as one tael, 162 as one catty, 30 catties as one jun and four jun as one stone.
Due to the wear and tear of weights and measures in use, there are deviations. Therefore, the Qin dynasty clearly stipulated that weights and measures should be inspected and corrected every year.
Third, unify the text.
In 22 1 year BC, Qin unified the whole country. Qin Shihuang carried out the policy of "the same language is not named", and Prime Minister Li Si and others sorted out the characters, changed the fonts and abolished the languages of various countries. Li Si and others revised Qin Zhuan according to Zhou. Li Si, Zhao Gao and Hu Wujing respectively used three books compiled by Qin Zhuan, Cang Xie, Ji Li and erudition, as teaching materials to promote Qin Zhuan.
This not only meets the learning needs of school children, but also serves as a model of Xiao Zhuan, which is popularized throughout the country. This is a drastic text reform. When Li Si and others compiled it, they first referred to the simplified characters prevailing in all places (Qin and the original six countries) at that time, and simplified Dazhuan into Xiaozhuan (Qin Zhuan) as a writing model.
Qin Shihuang personally promoted Xiao Zhuan. He traveled around the world to make carved stones and tried his best to unify the standardization of calligraphy. As a famous seal writer, Li Si wrote down all the stones he carved. Today, there are "Taishan Stone Carving" and "Langya Mountain Stone Carving". Qin Shihuang declared the biography of Qin Xiao as a unified text. Before Qin Shihuang was unified, the font was called Da Zhuan. After reunification, the characters used were different from those of the six countries, and they were called Xiao Zhuan, or Qin Zhuan. Xiao Zhuan evolved from Da Zhuan, and its shape is more neat and fixed than Da Zhuan.
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In 22 1 BC, Ying Zheng, the first Qin Emperor, ended the Warring States period of more than 250 years and established the first unified centralized multi-ethnic feudal country in China history-Qin State.
Qin Shihuang unified writing, unified measurement, unified currency, and established a county system. The framework of feudal state he laid has been continued by people for more than two thousand years.
In more than ten years, he organized more than 300,000 people to build the 5,000-kilometer Great Wall in the north of China, and began to build a huge mausoleum before his death. 1974 The Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses, guarding the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, shocked the world. 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors and horses, terracotta warriors and chariots are lifelike and are known as the "eighth wonder of the world".
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