The answer to this question is no doubt. Before the Great Qin Empire swept away Liuhe, the characters used by the seven kingdoms were not uniform, and they were still far apart.
Among them, Qi State uses Qi script, Yan State uses Yan script, Chu State uses Chu script, Han, Zhao and Wei have the same origin and all use Jin In terms of writing, and in the Qin Dynasty used bronze script, which was the later predecessor of Xiaozhuan.
Obviously, there are five kinds of scripts spread among the seven countries, which is very detrimental to cultural and economic exchanges and blocks the overall development level of the Central Plains. The most important thing is that, except for the characters used in the Qin State, which are closer to the orthodox bronze inscriptions, the characters of the other six countries are mostly written randomly, have a simple structure, and are more heavily pictographic but not unified. In particular, Chu characters are the most complicated. Without special study, it would be difficult for people from the other six countries to understand Chu characters.
Therefore, when Qin Shihuang unified the six countries and established a unified dynasty for the first time on the land of China, the first thing was to unify the writing! If the writing is not unified, it will be difficult to unify everything. If this continues, how can we talk about governing the country?
Therefore, Qin Shihuang ordered a special person to be responsible for the compilation of a unified script. Based on the Qin script, Xiaozhuan was compiled and used throughout the country. In addition, it was not only the unification of characters, but also the unification of weights and measures, establishing a unified Daqin dynasty in a true sense.
