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Meaning of 焚书坑儒

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焚 fén 书 shū 坑 kēng 儒 rú (Trad.: 焚書坑儒)
to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇 )
Example Sentences
1
秦始皇
,
古代中国的统一者
,
焚书坑儒
。
Qin Shihuang, ancient China's unifier, burned books and buried scholars alive.
2
阐述了秦初的学派之争及焚书坑儒事件发生的历史背景
。
Controversy among different schools of thought in the beginning of Qin Dynasty and the historic background of burning and burying confucian scholars alive were elaborated.
3
二千年前
,
暴君秦始皇最初统一中国
,
曾建造了长城并焚书坑儒
。
Over two thousand years before, at the time of the tyrant Emperor Chin Shih Hwang, who first unified China, built the Great Wall, repudiated Confucius, and burned the books.
4
“
焚书坑儒
”
宣告了旧道统的承担者
―
儒家士人与新王朝磨合的失败
。
"Burning honks and burying confucian scholars alive" declared the failure of incorporation between Confucianism, i. e. the representative of old orthodoxy, and the new dynasty.
5
中国的秦始皇焚书坑儒
,
两者都导致了人类两大文明类型的转型
,
改写了人类对自己的记忆
。
The two burnings both led to great suffering in human beings civilizations and rewritten human memory.