清代广东书禁的历史背景 文字狱是中国漫长的封建社会中的一种“非常丑恶”的历史现象。文字狱,实际上是封建统治阶级对人民群众实行思想文化禁锢,实行愚民政策,压制反抗力量,以巩固其反动封建统治。一般人认为,文字狱始于秦始皇。其实早在公元前八百多年的周宣王时期,就已经“发明”了这一历久不衰的手法,打击、压制知识分子。以后各代或多或少均有“效法”, The historical background of the bans in Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty Literary prison is a “very ugly” historical phenomenon in China’s long feudal society. Literary prison, in fact, is a feudal ruling class of people’s ideological and cultural imprisonment, the implementation of obscurantism policy, suppress the resistance, in order to consolidate its reactionary feudal rule. Most people think that the word prison began in the Qin Shi Huang. In fact, as early as eight hundred years BC, King Zhou Xuan Wang had “invented” this long-standing tactic to combat and suppress intellectuals. After generations more or less have “follow suit”