Call a deer a horse (Zhao Gao)

Idiom story At the end of Qin Dynasty, eunuch Zhao made a false imperial edict after the death of Qin Shihuang, ordering Bai Su to commit suicide and grow a beard.

Hai is a prince and wants to usurp the throne. He specially sent a deer to Hu Hai in Qin Ershi.

Hu Hai said it was a deer, and Zhao Gao asked Hu Hai to ask his ministers. Some ministers were forced by the forces of Prime Minister Zhao Gao to say that they were horses, and only some said that they were ministers of deer, who were harmed by Zhao Gao.

Burning books and burying Confucianism (Qin Shihuang)

In the thirty-fourth year of Qin Shihuang, Qin Shihuang adopted the advice of Prime Minister Lisi and sealed a book.

Chunyuyue regarded it as a private school slandering state affairs, and ordered all the history books except Ji Qin to be turned in and burned, while scholar Lu Sheng and others did not.

So Qin Shihuang ordered more than 460 alchemists and Confucian scholars to be arrested and buried alive in Xianyang.

Hanging beam stabbing (Su Qin, Sun Jing)

Idiom story Sun Jing, a master of Confucianism in Han Dynasty, studied very hard and often read when he was a child.

Late at night, I tied my hair to the roof beam for fear of falling asleep. During the Warring States Period, Su Qin, a military strategist, failed to lobby the State of Qin.

In order to gain fame, he read angrily, reading until late at night every day, and whenever he wanted to doze off, he stabbed his thigh with an iron awl to refresh himself.