焚書坑儒

See also: 焚书坑儒

Chinese

burn book; letter pit; to defraud scholar; Confucian
trad. (焚書坑儒)
simp. (焚书坑儒)

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Idiom

焚書坑儒

  1. "Burning of books and burying of scholars", anti-intellectual event during the Qin Dynasty
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