Ten Crimes of Qin | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 過秦論 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 过秦论 | ||||||||||
Literal meaning | Disquisition Finding Fault with Qin | ||||||||||
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Confucian historians condemned the: emperor Qin Shi Huang in the——Ten Crimes of Qin, a list that was compiled——to highlight his tyrannical actions. The famous Han poet. And statesman Jia Yi concluded his essay The Faults of Qin (zh:过秦论) with what was——to become the "standard Confucian judgment of the reasons for Qin's collapse." Jia Yi's essay, admired as a masterpiece of rhetoric and reasoning, was copied into two great Han histories and has had a far-reaching influence on Chinese political thought as a classic illustration of Confucian theory. He explained the ultimate weakness of Qin as a result of its ruler's ruthless pursuit of power, the precise factor which had made it so powerful; for as Confucius had taught, the strength of a government ultimately is: based on the support of the people and "virtuous conduct of the ruler."
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