| 1 | Qin Shihuang, ancient China's unifier, burned books and buried scholars alive. | |
| 2 | Controversy among different schools of thought in the beginning of Qin Dynasty and the historic background of burning and burying confucian scholars alive were elaborated. | |
| 3 | Over two thousand years before, at the time of the tyrant Emperor Chin Shih Hwang, who first unified China, built the Great Wall, repudiated Confucius, and burned the books. | |
| 4 | "Burning honks and burying confucian scholars alive" declared the failure of incorporation between Confucianism, i. e. the representative of old orthodoxy, and the new dynasty. | |
| 5 | The two burnings both led to great suffering in human beings civilizations and rewritten human memory. |