I Have United The World Under

This is a paraphrase of the stone inscriptions Qin Shi Huang ordered carved at sacred mountains — including Mount Tai (219 BCE), Mount Langya (219 BCE), and others — during his imperial inspection tours. Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji, Basic Annals of the First Emperor) preserves the texts of several inscriptions, which proclaim the unification of the warring states and the inauguration of a new era of order and law. These inscriptions are among the earliest surviving primary sources for the First Emperor's self-presentation and imperial ideology.