焚ふん書しょ坑こう儒じゅ

noun

burning books and burying scholars alive

Refers specifically to the Qin dynasty's campaign to suppress Confucian thought by burning classics and executing scholars. Used as a historical term and yojijukugo.

• 焚ふん書しょ坑こう儒じゅは秦しんの始し皇こう帝ていによる思し想そう弾だん圧あつの象しょう徴ちょう的てきな出で来き事ごとだ。

  The burning of books and burying of scholars is a symbolic event of thought suppression by Qin Shi Huang.