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Meaning of 焚书坑儒

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fén shū kēng (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
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Qin Shihuang, ancient China's unifier, burned books and buried scholars alive.
2
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
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
"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.
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The two burnings both led to great suffering in human beings civilizations and rewritten human memory.