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Burning of books and burying of scholars, an Uncommon card
The burning of books and burying of scholars was the purported burning of texts in 213 BCE and live burial of 460 Confucian scholars in 212 BCE ordered by Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 59,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The events were alleged to have destroyed philosophical treatises of the Hundred Schools of Thought, with the goal of strengthening the official Qin governing philosophy of Legalism.
- Modern historians doubt the details of the story, which first appeared more than a century later in the Han dynasty official Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian.
- As a court scholar, Sima had every reason to denigrate the earlier emperor to flatter his own, but later Confucians did not question the story.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Burning of books and burying of scholars article was read about 59,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Burning of books and burying of scholars (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Itsmine, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.


