Tell me about the contribution of Qin Shihuang!

On the merits and demerits of Qin Shihuang

The first is to unify the world. Although the prosperity of the Qin Dynasty was the result of the efforts of past dynasties, before Qin Shihuang, the Qin Dynasty had not destroyed a big country, and the six countries were destroyed by Qin Shihuang, thus ending hundreds of years of separatist melee in China.

Secondly, measures such as using the same book and the same train were taken to unify the national culture. This kind of influence is the most profound. Chinese and Western scholars have commented that although there are different dialects and customs in China, they share the same culture, especially writing, which has played a key role in the integrity of the Chinese nation and the inheritance of civilization, but the West has not finally completed this integration.

Of course, these achievements were attributed to Qin Shihuang alone, but he was the decision-maker, so his contribution was also the greatest.

Finally, talk about his shortcomings. Here I mainly talk about burning books and burying Confucianism.

The so-called book burning is not destroying books, but destroying folk books. Only people like "doctors" can collect them. What is strange is ignorance and lack of historical materials other than Qin history; The so-called cheating on Confucianism was discovered because of the slander of Confucian scholars, and cheating on Confucianism was also caused by the harshness of Qin law. As for cruelty, there seem to be many more people killed than Qin Shihuang in history. Qin Shihuang was so concerned because he killed Confucian scholars. The biggest mistake of Qin Shihuang was that he did not stabilize and inherit the Qin system tempered in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

To look at the problem historically is to put Qin Shihuang under the historical conditions at that time, analyze his merits and demerits and study his merits and demerits. To study the historical environment of Qin Shihuang, we should not only pay attention to the general trend of historical development at the end of the Warring States period, but also pay special attention to the historical characteristics of Qin's formation since the founding of the People's Republic of China and its influence on Qin Shihuang. This latter point has been ignored by most people in the evaluation of Qin Shihuang so far. When we systematically study the history of Qin dynasty and then evaluate Qin Shihuang, it is expected to avoid the one-sidedness of the past and draw a conclusion that is more in line with historical reality.