to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇)

fén shū kēng rú

f+én·2nd tonesh+ū·1st tonek+ēng·1st toner+ú·2nd tone

Idiom

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