The first emperor adopted Reese's suggestion and issued a "book-carrying order" prohibiting private schools; Scholars study, "taking officials as teachers", and the government implements the rule of law education in a unified way. With the implementation of this policy, the contradiction between Confucianism and law has become more acute. In the thirty-fifth year of the first emperor (2 1 1 BC), more than 460 Confucian scholars were raped and killed. Burning books and burying Confucianism is the product of Qin Shihuang's feudal absolutism in the field of culture and education. Although its purpose was to consolidate centralized rule, its result not only destroyed China's ancient cultural classics, but also intensified social contradictions and weakened the ruling foundation of the Qin Dynasty, which became an important reason for accelerating the demise of the Qin Dynasty.
In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, in view of the lessons of the demise of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu, adopted the Taoist thought of "governing by doing nothing", implemented the basic national policy of "rest and recuperation", and praised "the study of Huang Lao's criminal name" as a political guiding ideology. The so-called "learning of Huang Lao" is based on Huangdi and originated from Laozi's theory. In fact, it is based on Taoist thought and combines the thoughts of pre-Qin philosophers, especially Confucianism and Legalism. The core of Taoist thought is "governing by doing nothing", which conforms to nature, but also contains the connotation of adhering to the rule of law. Therefore, the essence of "the study of Huang Lao" is the combination of punishment and morality. This policy abandoned the policy of ruling the country according to law and being too cruel to the people in the Qin Dynasty, and met the objective requirements of the early Han Dynasty that it was urgent to restore and develop social economy and that the people were eager to get rid of frequent wars and live a stable life. After the "rule of culture and scenery", social stability and economic development. However, the occurrence and appeasement of the "Wu Chu Seven Countries" Rebellion made the Han regime face the problem of how to further consolidate centralization.
After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, he was determined to turn inaction politics into enterprising politics. In order to realize his great ambition, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty was eager to seek a new political guiding ideology. According to the political needs at that time, Dong Zhongshu, a great scholar and doctor, transformed the primitive Confucianism, which was "out of date, but ancient and not modern", into theological Confucianism with a lot of superstitious elements. He took advantage of the simplicity, obscurity and easy penetration of Chunqiu, and gave full play to the idea of "great unity". He believes that to ensure the unity of political law and discipline, we must first unify our thinking. When he answered the question of Emperor Wu, he put forward the idea of "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone". He said: "The great unity of the Spring and Autumn Period, the constant classics of heaven and earth, and the turn of ancient and modern times. Today, teachers are different, people are different, a hundred schools of thought contend and have different meanings. It is the unity above, the change of the legal system, and the ignorance below. I foolishly thought that Confucius' artists were not in the six arts, so they were all forbidden to enter, and if they stopped their bad words, they would be unified and recorded, and the people would know their actions. " He also strongly advocated the divine right of monarchy, so that the imperial power reached the supreme position. He said: "The greatness of the Tao originates from the sky, and the sky remains the same, and the Tao remains the same." The starting point of his proposition is to strengthen autocratic centralization and fully cater to the wishes of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. So Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty accepted his suggestion in the first year of Jianyuan (BC 140) and ordered to "oust a hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone". In the fifth year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty (before 136), the Western Han government decided to establish a doctor of the Five Classics, thus ending the situation of extending the establishment of a hundred doctors, and the policy of Confucianism's exclusive respect was confirmed. Since then, the country's political guiding ideology and cultural and educational policies have been based on Confucianism, and talents have been trained and selected according to this guiding ideology, and ideological education for the people has been strengthened. Under the guidance of this policy, Confucianism has been greatly respected and widely spread. In the hundred years after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Confucian classics flourished, with more than 1,000 masters, from emperors to local officials, and some interpretations of Confucian classics exceeded one million words. Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty has always had Jiaping Shijing as a standard scripture. The prosperity of Confucian classics has strongly promoted the development of school education. With the unprecedented unification of teaching purpose, content and teaching materials, school education has basically become Confucian classics education. The establishment and implementation of the policy of exclusive respect for Confucianism, culture and education had a far-reaching impact on the education in feudal society later.