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In the thirty-fourth year of the first emperor (2 13 BC), Qin Shihuang gave a banquet in Xianyang Palace, and the first emperor was very happy. But there is a conservative doctor named Chun Yuyue, whose native place is Qi. He criticized Zhou's flattery on the spot. He said: "Yin Zhou Wang is over 1,000 years old and has contributed to his children and helped himself." He criticized Qin Shihuang for abolishing the enfeoffment system and setting up counties.
Said that if the minister usurped power, there was no way to save himself. He also sarcastically said: "Those who can live for a long time without learning from the past are not heard." Li Si, the prime minister, retorted on the spot. He accused Chun of being a "foolish Confucian", and also accused Confucian scholars of "learning from the past but not learning from the present, confusing the leaders of Guizhou" and "being insincere and unable to get out of the way, praising the Lord's name, taking different things as high and attracting group slander".
He thought that such a group of Confucian scholars was a dangerous force, suggested that the first emperor resolutely stop their illegal activities, and put forward the suggestion of burning books to bury Confucianism.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Burning Books to Pit Confucians (Historical Events)