Langya Inscription Political Program / 琅琊刻石政治纲领
Langya inscription political program / 琅琊刻石政治纲领 is the source-scoped pattern from Qinji 122-2 where Qin’s stone inscription at 琅琊山 turns the emperor’s travel into public doctrine. The inscription is described as praising 秦始皇 and Qin, promoting agriculture over commerce, stressing unified writing and measures, urging people to learn and obey law, and presenting unification as the end of war.
The concept sits between 帝国符号标准化 and 秦国行政标准化. It is symbolic because it broadcasts Qin’s theory of rule in durable public text; it is administrative because the message centers on standards, law, farming, and governed subjects.
Key Claims
- Public inscriptions can carry an empire’s operating doctrine into newly conquered space.
- The Langya inscription links peace after conquest to obedience under law rather than to negotiated pluralism among former states.
- “重农抑商” is presented as part of the moral economy of Qin rule, not only as an economic preference.
- Standard writing and measurement become claims about universal order when carved into a conquered landscape.
Connections
- 琅琊山 - place where the inscription is staged in the source.
- 秦始皇 and 秦国 - ruler and regime praised by the text.
- Imperial Tour Political Theater / 帝国巡游政治剧场 - travel context that gives the inscription its audience.
- Imperial Symbolic Standardization / 帝国符号标准化, Qin Administrative Standardization / 秦国行政标准化, and Imperial Homogenization / 帝国整齐划一 - adjacent standardization and integration frames.
- 齐国 and 齐地八神 - conquered eastern setting where the inscription follows local sacrifice.