In the simple historical view of the people, heroes are more like the creators of history, the vast China, the five thousand years of civilization, and all kinds of heroes are as vast as the galaxy and as dazzling as the sun and the moon.

Marxist materialist historical view believes that: "The people are the creators of history, and heroes are important forces in promoting historical development." In the simple historical view of the people, heroes are more like creators of history, with a vast China, a five thousand years of civilization, and heroes from all walks of life are as vast as the galaxy, as dazzling as the sun and the moon.

Qin Shihuang (259 BC-218 BC), who lived only 41 years old, swept the six kingdoms at the age of 38 and unified himself. He called himself Qinhuang Emperor , meaning that the Qianqiu Empire began.


Qin Shihuang has been controversial since ancient times. He was busy with people and money to build the Great Wall . He was obsessed with immortality and medicine. For two thousand years, orthodox historical books have regarded it as tyrannical kings and kings of the country that have been denied by all generations.

Is the real Qin Shihuang a tyrant? What is Qin Shihuang's historical achievements? Is it worthy of the title of Qin Shihuang?


  • Let’s talk about what would history be like without Qin Shihuang?
BC In 771 BC, Fenghuo Guan Zhu Zhou Youwang was killed, his son Pingwang moved eastward to Luoyi, Western Zhou destroyed, Eastern Zhou was established in the name of the fact that the royal family was still the common ruler of the world, but in fact he had lost control over all the princes. From then on, the 500-year battle between princes and the battle for hegemony in Chinese history, known in history as Spring and Autumn Warring States Period . It was at this time when China was about to fall apart that Qin Shihuang took on the important task of unifying China.

Without Qin Shihuang, there would be no " Wei Yang's reform ", and it would be impossible for the great unification of China today.

Warring States chaotic times, people live in turmoil, Old Qin people After hundreds of years of hard work, they were passed down to King of Qin Ying Zheng. He knew very well that at this time, he must use heavy rituals to overcorrect the injustice. The most important thing is to unify the world and break the chaotic state of years of conquest. Only in this way can the world be peaceful and the people live in peace. The benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, trustworthiness and the so-called etiquette and law promoted by Confucian are actually for the service of emperors and only applicable to peaceful and prosperous times. "If the granaries are full, you know etiquette and good food, you know honor and disgrace." The people's clothes cannot be covered by their bodies, and their food cannot be filled with their stomachs. Their lives may be lost at any time. How can they have the intention to "silence, cultivate themselves, manage their families, govern the country, and pacify the world" and spend decades of hard study to exchange for the temple as an official. It is not difficult to understand why all the families of all the people are regarded as guests of honor, but Confucius traveling to the nations has nothing to do. The reason why King Ying Zheng of Qin disagrees and is willing to offend the old clan and risked the risk of shaking the foundation of Qin State, he also had to reuse Wei Yang , because in this chaotic world, there was no other way to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and there was no other way to achieve his ambition to unify. Without Qin Shihuang and Wei Yang's reforms, I don't know when the chaos in China will end, and it is unknown whether China can be called today's unified country. Historical materials unearthed in later generations can prove that the laws formulated and implemented by Wei Yang in Qin were not the torture law mentioned in the biography of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. Its development is complete and comprehensive, covering almost everything in the lives of the Qin people. It is a good law. Sima Qian, as the Taishi Ling of the Han Dynasty , has its limitations. If Qin is not tyrannical, what is the legality of overthrowing Qin Dynasty ?

Without Qin Shihuang, there would be no " Burning books and burying scholars ", and the world will be in chaos again as Qin falls.

The country was just rising, and the idea of ​​unifying the people was particularly important. The Qin Dynasty had just unified the six countries, and the six countries had different writing ideas. If the people could not be educated with unified ideas at this time, the world would fall into chaos again after the Qin Dynasty was destroyed, which was far from being able to unify. With the continuous unearth of historical materials, the truth about Qin Shihuang's "burning books and burying scholars" was more realistically restored. It was not to burn all the Confucian books and scholars in the world, but to burn down the books that were not conducive to the unity of ideas among the people and killing ignorant sorcerers. Important classics were collected by the state. To a certain extent, this move is conducive to the unity of emerging countries. When the great cause is first established, the most important thing is the unity of the monarch and subjects.

Without Qin Shihuang, there would be no "building the Great Wall in the North", and the Chinese nation would no longer have the culture of the Great Wall in the 0,000 miles.

After more than two thousand years of historical baptism and precipitation, the Great Wall is no longer just a wall used to resist foreign enemies. It is more of a spiritual symbol, symbolizing the national spirit of the Chinese nation's indomitable and self-reliant and self-reliance, and symbolizing the national character of the Chinese people who love peace and emphasize defense and neglect attack. Without the Great Wall, how could there be such an exquisite poem as "The scenery of the north, , thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow, and only the vastness inside and outside the Great Wall". Without the Great Wall, how could there be such an exciting melody as "The Great Wall will never fall, the Yellow River will surging water". Without the Great Wall, how could there be such a cry of "Get up, people who do not want to be slaves, build our flesh and blood into our new Great Wall" that penetrate everything. Therefore, the Great Wall is no longer just the Great Wall.

Without Qin Shihuang, there would be no "Li Si's new policy", and Chinese history will continue to repeat the melee of the princes.

Qin Shihuang used the supreme authority of the emperor to promote the book and text , the same car and the same track, unified the weights and measures, promoted the great integration of the Chinese nation and economic exchanges and development, made the whole country and different ethnic groups more closely combined, and created a sense of community for the Chinese nation. Kissinger once said: "China is the only civilization that has never been interrupted. Modern China may be a brief accident in history, not a long-term love." Martin Jacques said: "China is a civilization disguised as a country." All this is because of the man who only lived 38 years old, Qin Shihuang.

, especially county system , which changed the feudal system of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, completely cut off the possibility of rebellion by the princes and enabled the country to maintain a long-term peace and unification. After the fall of Qin, the Han Dynasty restored the feudal system, but finally realized the problem of feudal system. caused by the reduction of the feudal system of vassals and is the most obvious example. Since the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, for more than two thousand years, the county system has only had formal changes, without any substantial changes. This is a great achievement for thousands of years.

Without Qin Shihuang, there would be no Terracotta Warriors and Horses , and it will no longer exist in the eighth miracle of the world.

Terracotta Warriors are not poured by living people like some unofficial history records. The construction of Terracotta Warriors was like the Great Wall at that time, which was a huge project that cost the people and caused money. But today, it also provides us with a historical heritage, allowing us to have a glimpse of the style of the Qin army in the past and understand a lot of historical information such as the social hierarchy at that time. There is also . The , which contains many treasures that can allow future generations to better understand the history of the Qin Dynasty. It is worth looking forward to. Of course, these so-called great projects contain the blood and tears of countless people, but history is often like this. It prefers to remember the stories of earth-shaking or heroic figures, and never pays attention to the blood and tears of ordinary people behind it. Throughout history, it is all like this.

  • From this point of view, as an emperor, Qin Shihuang must have the limitations of his era and a series of problems derived from absolute imperial power. However, in his short 41 years of life, he laid the foundation for China forever, opened up the vast territory of China, and created the idea of ​​the unification of the Chinese nation. His great achievements and influence on future generations are beyond the reach of history, and he deserves to be called the Emperor of the Eternal Empire.

History is always written by later generations, and later generations will inevitably examine some historical events from the perspective of future generations, which is easy to make the mistake of historical nihilism. Therefore, when evaluating a person's merits and demerits, we should not only analyze from a realistic perspective, but also analyze it from the background of the ancients, take the ancients as their teacher and guide them as their mirror.