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焚书坑儒

Traditional 焚書坑儒

fén shū kēng rú

to burn the Confucian classics and bury…

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fén shū kēng rú 焚書坑儒

  1. to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])

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