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【In this exam, the imperial court will admit 300 people. These 300 people are not yet Jinshi. The last level is called the imperial examination.】
【It depends a bit on luck here, that is to say, it depends on whether you and the emperor have a good affinity, because you can be selected for the palace examination.】
【They are all students who have studied hard for more than ten years, and some have even studied books for decades.】
【Fan Jin studied all his life and was admitted to the Juren Examination when he was over 70 years old. He was crazy about it.】
【Because Zhong Kui was ugly, the emperor judged people by their appearance, so he hit a pillar in anger and died.】
【In fact, in the exam during this period, the emperor is testing overall quality. Maybe your inadvertent words or small actions may arouse the emperor's favor or disgust.】
【Needless to say, I have a good impression, that is, he is the number one scholar. If he is in a row, he will be the number one scholar.】
【That's not a matter of ancestral tombs emitting green smoke, but ancestral tombs emitting fire. Since the establishment of the imperial examination system in the Sui and Tang Dynasties,】
【In the entire history until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, only thirteen people won three prizes in a row. Of course, the emperor was not the only one to decide who would win the top prize.】
【He had to discuss with the ministers before he divided the grades. The first and third grades were called Jinshi and the third grade. They were number one, number two and number three.】
【Those in the second-grade class are called Ci Jinshi, and those in the third-grade class are called Ci-Tong Jinshi. People who reach this level must have official positions.】
【The youngest is also the eighth-rank county magistrate. The imperial examination system has lit a lamp in the hearts of scholars, illuminated the hopes of thousands of students, and also given ordinary people the best reason to study hard.】
【It is precisely this kind of temptation that makes countless people crawl forward, and even more of them are those from poor families.】
【But being an official is not that easy. There is one level that directly wipes out a large number of people, and this level is stereotyped writing.】
【The Ming Dynasty began to implement the eight-part examination, which was divided into three examinations: the Four Books and Five Classics, Practical Writing, and Current Affairs and Policy.】
【The eight-part essay examination requires candidates to write political essays according to eight chapters:"breaking the topic, carrying the topic, starting the lecture, entering the topic, starting the part, the middle part, the last part, and the ending part".】
【The structure of the writing is very rigid. It is generally believed that the test of eight-part essay has seriously stifled the creativity of many readers.】
【And even among the students who pass the exam, many are nerds. Apart from reading, memorizing and borrowing sentences, they hardly understand how to adapt.】
【In the learning stage, they only know the fixed model, because only in this way can they obtain (cabi) fame.】
【This way of taking exams has produced many great people, but this way of taking exams does more harm than good.】
【But even so, there are still many people who study hard for more than ten years in order to gain fame and fame, just to become a Jinshi in one day.】
【The imperial examination system itself was based on utilitarianism and served as a ruling tool for rulers.】
【While selecting available talents, the rulers also gave endless hope to scholars all over the world. Books have their own beauty, and books have their own houses of gold.】
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Sui Dynasty.
Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian looked into the air, frowned and said:
"Eight-part essay?"
"Is this an examination method used in the talent selection system of later dynasties? Yang
Guang beside him said in time:
"Father, this so-called eight-legged essay must have been a way of selecting officials in the Tang Dynasty."
"It's similar to the Jinshi system in my dynasty, it's also for selecting talented people."
"However, according to Erchen, the examination system of later generations should be based on our system and add more comprehensive examination content."
"But why do I feel that the content of Zhu Yuanzhang's exam is too...well...confining and narrow-minded!"
When Yang Jian heard this, he asked in surprise:
"Why? Yang
Guang touched his chin, thought for a moment and then said:
"Looking at his eight-part essay, Erchen felt that this kind of exam was equivalent to drawing on other people's talents and learning to take the exam."
"Moreover, their examination system is too decadent. I always feel that students, no matter what they study, do not have their own main ideas."
"It’s not as good as our exam, it’s more random."
"Zhu Yuanzhang's examination also opened up a good way for those students from poor families. His system was more suitable for those students who studied poetry and books diligently."
After the Sui Dynasty unified the country, in order to adapt to the development and changes of feudal economic and political relations, to expand the requirements of the feudal ruling class to participate in political power, and to strengthen centralization, the power of selecting officials was returned to the central government and the nine-grade Zhongzheng system was replaced by the imperial examination system.
In the third year of Emperor Yang’s reign in the Sui Dynasty, the Jinshi Department was established, and examinations were used to select Jinshi. At that time, the main examination was on current affairs, which were political papers about the political life of the country at that time, called test strategies.
This type of subject-based selection of scholars was based on test strategies. Although this method was in its infancy at that time and did not form a system, it closely integrated the three aspects of studying, taking examinations and serving as officials. Although it was an examination selection, it was only used for the first time.
Because it was in the initial stage, the examinations were not regular and the examinations were not regular. The selection method was also incomplete, and the examination questions and content were arbitrary.
However, the political measure of opening a subject to obtain a scholar closely linked the three things of studying, taking the examination, and becoming an official. The imperial examination became the way for feudal intellectuals to obtain high officials and generous salaries. Networks and ladders.
This system was naturally enthusiastically supported by feudal intellectuals.
Not only that, because the power of selecting officials was concentrated from the hands of local gentry to the central government, it weakened the wealthy nobles and strengthened the power of the central government.
It expanded The class basis of political power is conducive to maintaining the unity of the country, and it indeed plays a great role in strengthening feudal rule.
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Tang Dynasty.
Li Yuan, Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, couldn't help but said:
"Eight-part essay?"
"The examination and selection of talents in later dynasties was much more perfect than ours. Li
Shimin took a step forward and said:
"Father, I think the eight-part essay of later generations is a bit strict."
"Although their talent selection system provides many benefits to those from poor families, this kind of exam that relies on studying often results in the selected talents having no brains for studying."
"A minister who is not smart enough or flexible enough will not be favored by the emperor even if he becomes an official in the court."
In the Tang Dynasty, the examination subjects were divided into regular subjects and system subjects. The examinations held in stages every year were called regular subjects, and the examinations held temporarily by the emperor's decree were called system subjects. The subjects of regular subjects included scholar, Ming Jing, Jinshi, and Junshi. There are more than fifty kinds of subjects such as Mingfa, Mingzi, Mingshuang, etc. (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)
Among them, subjects such as Mingfa, Mingsuan, and Mingzi are not valued by people, and subjects such as Junshi are not often used. Held, the scholar subject was very demanding in the early Tang Dynasty, but was gradually abandoned later.
Therefore, the two subjects of Ming Jing and Jin Shi became the main subjects of regular subjects in the Tang Dynasty.