[Idiom]: Burning books and pit Confucianism

Pinyin: fén shū kēng rú

[Explanation]: burning: burning; Pit: burying a person alive; Confucian: Refers to scholars. Burn the classics and kill the scholars.

【Idiom Story】:

Qin Shi Huang hated Confucianism for citing poetry books to oppose Qin's laws, so he burned poetry books and killed Confucian scholars, which brought great destruction to Chinese culture.

After Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, he took two major measures to control ideology and culture. In the thirty-fourth year of Qin Shi Huang (213 BC), Dr. Chun Yuyue opposed the feudal absolutist centralized county system, and suggested that according to the ancient system, the meritorious heroes of the sons should be regarded as the branches. Prime Minister Li Si put forward a proposal to burn books in order to put an end to the phenomenon of "all living beings learn from the past without learning from the present, and confusing the leaders of the world with the non-current world". Qin Shi Huang adopted his suggestion and ordered that in addition to the historical books of the Qin state, the books collected by the doctors and officials, and the books on medicine, divination, and tree planting collected by the common people, all the historical records of the world, the "poems", "books" and hundred languages privately collected by the common people should be handed over and burned within a time limit. In addition, it is also stipulated that those who speak "poems" and "books" will be executed, and those who are not ancient and modern will be punished, and those who do not raise the knowledge will be punished with the same crime, and they will not be burned for 30 days.

Book burning has caused great damage to ancient cultural classics. The following year, Fang Shi Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng, who were looking for the elixir of immortality for Qin Shi Huang, because it was difficult to continue to deceive, they fled on the grounds that the first emperor was greedy for power and could not seek the elixir. Qin Shi Huang was furious when he heard the news, thinking that Confucianism was mostly confusing with demonic words, so he ordered the imperial history case to ask all the students, and more than 460 Confucian scholars were buried alive in Xianyang. The burning of books exposed the social contradictions of the time and hastened the demise of the Qin Dynasty.

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