焚书坑儒 (焚書坑儒) fén shū kēng rú
fén shū kēng rú
set phrase
to burn the books and bury Confucian scholars alive
Domain: Idiom 成语
Notes: (213 BCE )A command of the first Emperor (Sullivan and Hearst 1997, 'BURNING BOOKS AND BURYING SCHOLARS ALIVE'; Yao 2000, p. 55)
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