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Burning books and harassing Confucians

It is the scholars who burn books and bury scholars. Burning books and harassing Confucians was because the literati at that time liked to discuss government affairs and judge the rights and wrongs of Qin Shihuang's administration. Moreover, the world had just been unified at that time, and people's hearts were unstable. People thought that the remnants of the old six kingdoms still existed, and there were hundreds of schools of thought and various schools of thought. The existence of it was not conducive to the unification of ideology and culture. Qin Shihuang ordered the killing of Confucian scholars, that is, scholars rather than charlatans, and burned a large number of classics. Although in some aspects it was conducive to the unification of China and the spread of Legalism, However, the destruction of a large number of precious documents has brought huge disaster to the inheritance of Chinese culture.