Qin Shi Huang (Upper and Lower)

Author: Zhang Tianmin
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Grand theme, grand production, grand investment! Jointly created by renowned artists, broadcasted in prime time on CCTV! Qin Shi Huang is a great hero who opened up the world, stood tall against the heavens, and shook the earth. With his entire life's energy, he established a multi-ethnic unified empire that stood between heaven and earth, and his life is an epic! Since Qin Shi Huang, there has been an enduring unification of China, an ever-striving great China, and Qin Shi Huang laid a glorious foundation for the Greater China. In 403 BC, Chinese history entered the Warring States period. After intense wars of conquest among the over 100 vassal states during the Spring and Autumn period, the land of Huaxia saw the emergence of the seven powerful states of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, and Qin. Qin was in the west, Yan in the north, Qi in the east, and Chu in the south. The other states of Zhao, Han, and Wei occupied the Central Plains. To consolidate their rule, the states competed to implement political reforms aimed at "enriching the state and strengthening the military." In 359 BC, Shang Yang carried out radical reforms in Qin, enabling the state located on the remote western frontier to rise to prominence and become a dominant power on the land of Huaxia. From then on, successive Qin kings pursued a policy of "befriending distant states while attacking nearby ones," strengthening ties with Qi and Yan while attacking Han, Wei, Zhao, and Chu. Wars continued for a hundred years. Eventually, the historical giant who unified China, Qin Shi Huang, Ying Zheng, emerged. He "continued the legacy of the past six generations, wielded his long whip to rule the land, swallowed the two Zhou dynasties and destroyed the vassal states, ascended the throne of supremacy to control the six realms, and used his rod to whip the world, achieving awe-inspiring power across the four seas." By 221 BC, he finally established a centralized, multi-ethnic feudal unified state in China, becoming China's first emperor. From then on, on the other side of the world, people like the Greeks and Romans also learned that a great power had risen in the East, and its name was called—"Qin."