An absurd example of literary inquisition

1, Xu Shukui's Poem of One Pillar Building

In the 28th year of Qianlong (1763), Xu Shukui died. He wrote "Poem of a Pillar Building" before his death, and Qianlong was denounced by his enemy Cai Jiashu in forty-three years. In Xu's poem, "The emperor will meet again tomorrow, and the pot will be put aside by half", "I am shocked in the Ming Dynasty, and I will go to Beijing in one fell swoop ..." Xu Shukui died in 15, and his coffin was cut open in the countryside and hung in Dongtai County for public display.

2. Strouhuai case

The supervisor in Huangmei County, Hubei Province, has some sentences in his "Poetry Copy of Mustard Garden", such as "If there is no avenue, who will maintain it". After reporting the enemy's situation, Gan Long criticized: "When the Qing Dynasty ruled the whole country, how could there be reasons for the decline of the avenue and how could there be outsiders to maintain it?" In forty-five years, Yu Qianlong ordered the execution of Shi Lingchi.

Step 3 finalize the case

In the forty-six years of Qianlong, Cheng, a student from Xiaogan County, Hubei Province, was reading the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. In Zhao Yi Zhuan's five-character poem "The Complete Works of Literature are Not Worth a Bag of Money", the word "generosity from ancient times to modern times" was criticized by the enemy as satirizing the present with the ancient, which was decided by the enemy.

4. Shu Wei case

When people in Shouguang, Shandong Province were reading history, they made some comments on 1000 years ago's On Migration and Tolerance by Jiang Tong, a doctor in Jin Dynasty. In view of the fact that Qiang people and Miao people who lived in the northwest gradually moved to the Central Plains during the Jin Dynasty, the book Migration Rong suggested that they should be moved back to their original places, so as to achieve "no miscellaneous things, each living in his own home." This proposal was not adopted by the Kim regime.

Shu Wei commented that at that time, "officials in the DPRK and China were greedy and did not need Chiang Kai-shek's theory, which caused disasters in the five lakes." According to reports, Qianlong believed that both the Five Lakes and Rongdi were innuendos to the Qing Dynasty, so he sentenced Shu Wei.

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The harm of literary inquisition:

The harm of literary inquisition in Qing dynasty was not limited to that era. Those precious historical and cultural classics were seriously destroyed, which led to many famous books being made up, which caused serious harm and irreparable defects to our history and culture.

The punishment for the literary inquisition is even more cruel. Once convicted, they will be tortured regardless of life and death, and the lightest will be beaten, even those who have something to do with them will not be spared.

The harm of the literary inquisition in Qing Dynasty is incalculable. It imprisons people's thoughts and tramples on people's body and mind. People live in fear and the cultural situation is bleak. Finally, in the late19th century, it was mixed with other negative factors, resulting in the passive situation that China was wantonly slaughtered by the great powers.

The literary inquisition in Qing Dynasty was a dehumanizing crime committed by the rulers in order to imprison their thoughts and consolidate their rule. Counting the influence of the literary inquisition in Qing dynasty caused great panic among literary circles. They dare not make any comments, for fear of accidentally falling into the abyss of literary inquisition.

Under the cruel cultural oppression of the Qing Dynasty, culture was cruelly urged and distorted. In order to avoid disaster, scholars dare not talk about current politics. They have lost their integrity, and they will only study in a rigid and boring way.

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