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Before Yingzheng unified China, China experienced more than 500 years of division. After more than 500 years of development, each vassal state has formed its own unique culture. At that time, "different fields, different tracks, different regulations, different clothes, different languages, and different personalities" were not unified in all aspects except politics. Under the guidance of the idea of ??unification, the First Emperor began to implement unified measures in all aspects. In addition to formulating the "Qin Law" and unifying the land system, he also formulated a series of measures aimed at unifying writing, transportation, and economy.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, different countries had different personalities. But in the Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty, Chinese characters were unified, but the unified Chinese characters and strokes were more complicated. Therefore, after the divide-and-conquer system was formed in various countries, traditional Chinese characters underwent varying degrees of changes and modifications, and the same characters were written in different characters, eventually forming a situation of "variant characters". During the Warring States Period, Qi culture was the most developed, with cultural centers such as Jixia Academy. At that time, the characters used by Qi were relatively simple, called tadpole ancient script, while the characters of other countries were more complicated.
After the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the First Emperor ordered Li Si and others to unify Chinese characters. Based on the principle of easy popularization, Lisi strives to have simple strokes and beautiful fonts for new words. Finally, Li Si used the Zhou Dynasty's "Big Seal Script" and Qi's Tadpole to create a new image of Qin Seal Script. After the font creation was completed, Li Si began the difficult work of popularizing it. He wrote "Cangjie" by himself, and Zhao Gao and Hu also wrote "Gigi Gigi" and "Boxue" respectively. These three articles were all written in seal script, and the emperor ordered them to be published nationwide as standard textbooks for children's literacy.
Later, Qin Shihuang went hunting five times and left many inscriptions on famous mountains and rivers, all written in seal script. It can be said that Shi Huang and Li Si made great efforts to popularize "Xiao Zhuan". Unfortunately, before it was popularized in the Qin Dynasty, another square font was born - official script.
Li Shu was handed down by Cheng Miao in prison. Cheng Miao was originally a prison officer, but was later imprisoned for more than ten years for committing crimes. While in prison, he improved and simplified the seal script, making it round and straight, making it easier to write. Since Cheng Miao was a minor official and was called "Li Ren" at that time, his calligraphy was also called "Li Shu" and "Zuo Shu". However, the official script of the Qin Dynasty was only a precursor. There are many traces of seal script in the official script of the Qin Dynasty, which lags far behind the current official script.
Qin Shihuang read Cheng Miao's "Changing Characters" and felt that the original seal script was not concise enough, so he preferred to use official script. But Qin Shihuang died soon, and the Qin Dynasty also perished soon. After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, official script became the main literary style. Later, on the cultural relics unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb and the Han bamboo slips found in the northwest, the fonts were all official script.
The emergence of this easy-to-write and popular character has made a huge contribution to the preservation, development and inheritance of Chinese culture, and has had a profound impact on Chinese history and even the history of East Asia. Before that, in China's vast land, there were many languages, diverse dialects, and inconsistent characters, which made communication between different places more difficult and was not conducive to the central government's rule and management of local governments.
After the unified writing, communication between various places was greatly promoted, especially the communication between the central and local governments. The unification of writing and language also helps to build the unified values ??and national psychology of the Chinese nation, greatly enhances the cohesion of the Chinese nation, and makes an important contribution to strengthening centralization of power.
So when evaluating Qin Shihuang, one must affirm the contribution of the unified figure. Although the work done by the First Emperor did not actually achieve the purpose of "writing a text", it only simplified and unified the original text. Without this job, there would be no ancient China that led the world
In the next two thousand years, our ancestors with yellow skin and black hair wrote such square characters, constantly absorbing foreign cultures, and created unique characters in the world The Chinese civilization has contributed countless advanced technologies and excellent ideas to the world, making Chinese one of the most expressive and influential languages ??in the world, and has made an indelible and huge contribution to the diversity of world culture. It deserves our recognition as Proud for future generations.
Cultural writing is a kind of soft power, and cultural unification is a more basic governance measure. However, when the First Emperor had just completed the unification of the country and the world was still unstable, he had to consider immediate interests when taking long-term cultural unification measures. Therefore, he ordered "vehicles to drive on the same track" and built a road of uniform width to connect all parts of the country, so that the Qin army could reach all parts of the empire in time, suppress anti-Qin forces, and ensure the consolidation of the new regime.