How much influence did the burning of books and burying Confucianism in Qin Dynasty have on later generations?

Ying Zheng, the king of Qin, spent ten years destroying the six eastern countries, ending the division of the Warring States, establishing a multi-ethnic country with unified music in China for the first time, and establishing centralization for more than two thousand years. He became the first emperor in the history of China. But it is easy to conquer the country, but it is difficult to conquer the ideas of foreigners.

The people of the six eastern countries don't respect the idea that the Qin Dynasty attached importance to the rule of law in their bones. For this reason, in order to consolidate his rule, Qin Shihuang had to strengthen his ideological control, and the most ruthless move he took was called burning books to bury Confucianism. Legalism is the ruling ideology of the Qin Dynasty, while Confucianism and the rule of law are opposite. In order to curb the development of Confucianism, Qin Shihuang directly arrested more than 460 Confucian scholars in the capital and buried them alive. Confucian scholars have been hit hard.

The most terrible thing is that Qin Shihuang ordered all the historical books, poems, books, hundreds of words and other books of the six countries to be burned, leaving only one historical book of the Qin Dynasty-Ji Qin. Poems, books, and hundreds of words are all collected except those collected by doctors, and the county magistrate is responsible for destroying them. Some people dare to talk about directly killing the content of poetry books in public. If an official sees this situation and does not report it, he will also be killed directly. Confucian books collected by county officials will be tattooed on their faces and exiled if they are not burned within 30 days.

This can be said to be the 1 cultural catastrophe in the history of China, and a large number of high-value books recording the early development of the Chinese nation were all destroyed. In this cultural catastrophe, the only books that have not been destroyed are tree planting, fortune telling, medicine and so on. Burning books and burying Confucianism effectively strengthened Qin Shihuang's ideological control over the people throughout the country, eradicated heresy and consolidated his centralized rule. While burning books, Qin Shihuang collected a set of Confucian books represented by poems, calligraphy and hundreds of words in the central government, but such books were not seen among the people. Burning books and burying Confucianism also greatly intensified social class contradictions and accelerated the demise of the Qin Dynasty.