When the first Qin Emperor united six nations to unify China, they respected the thought of legalism while prohibiting the freedom of activities based on other ideas, and burned books and buried scholars.
秦の始皇帝が六国を併せて中国を統一すると、法家思想を尊んでそれ以外の自由な思想活動を禁止し、焚書坑儒を起こした。