burn books and bury the literati in pits

burn books and bury the literati in pits

Burning books and pitching scholars, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f á NSH ū K ē NgR ú, which means burning books and killing scholars. It comes from the book of Han, geography II.

The origin of Idioms

Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote in geography records of the Han Dynasty: "he merged the six kingdoms and called himself Emperor. He was responsible for his power and power. He burned books to dig up scholars, and he was in charge of his own personal wisdom."

Idiom usage

It refers to cultural autocracy.