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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- 卷三十三 列傳第二十七: 儒林 Volume 33: Confucian Scholars Book of Chen 陳書 — count: 1
- 卷六十六 陳王列傳 Volume 66: Biographies of Chen, Wang Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1
- 卷四十五 Scroll 45 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1