Burning of books and burying of scholars

Timeline

1. -213Xianyang · ShaanxiQin Shi Huang held a banquet at the Xianyang Palace; the erudite Chunyu Yue argued for enfeoffment, and Li Si rebutted him and memorialized, proposing that all Odes, Documents, and Hundred Schools texts in the empire be burned except Qin histories, medicine, divination, and arboriculture books, with heavy penalties for private hoarding, to unify laws and thought.
2. -212Xianyang · ShaanxiBecause alchemists such as Lu Sheng failed to deliver immortality and slandered the court, Qin Shi Huang angrily ordered the imperial censors to interrogate them; the scholars mutually accused one another, and in the end over 460 were buried alive at Xianyang, known in history as the burying of scholars.