淳于越 / Chunyu Yue

淳于越 / Chunyu Yue enters the wiki through 《资治通鉴·秦纪》124｜焚书坑儒？！我在B站为秦始皇平反！, where he appears as a Qi man and Qin court博士 who speaks at 嬴政 / 秦始皇’s banquet. His central claim is that Qin’s direct commandery-county settlement is wrong and that the empire should follow Xia, Shang, and Zhou by restoring enfeoffment.

The source uses him less as a full biography than as the trigger for the book-burning debate. In the host’s summary, Chunyu Yue’s appeal to antiquity gives 李斯 the opening to treat private classical argument as a threat to present rule: if scholars use old models to attack current institutions, intellectual disagreement becomes political disorder.

Connections

• 李斯 - opponent who turns Chunyu Yue’s restoration argument into a broader attack on private classical learning.
• 嬴政 / 秦始皇 and 秦国 - ruler and court setting for the banquet debate.
• 郡县制反分封定局 - institutional settlement Chunyu Yue challenges.
• 秦代焚书令 and 学在王官式知识垄断 - policy branch triggered by the debate.
• 《诗经》 and 《尚书》 - classics whose private discussion becomes politically dangerous under Li Si’s proposal.