What are the positive and negative effects of the imperial examination system?

Positive influence: The original purpose of the imperial examination was to promote talents for the government from the people, break the hereditary phenomenon of aristocrats and rectify the official system. Compared with hereditary system and recommendation system, imperial examination is undoubtedly a fair, open and just method, which improves the employment system.

The negative influence of the imperial examination system is not mainly the mistake of the system itself, but the system itself should recognize that the imperial examination is a good system for selecting officials and talents. The imperial examination system is to select talents, and it can also select talents from traditional society and entrust them with heavy responsibilities. As for the stereotyped writing style of imperial examinations in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and China's tradition of emphasizing art over technology and humanism over nature, it is the real reason for the backwardness of science and technology after Ming and Qing Dynasties. Many commentators regard cheating in the imperial examination as the drawbacks of the imperial examination system, such as taking exams, bribing examiners, joints, etc., and think that the prevalence of cheating in the imperial examination system in the late Qing Dynasty shows that the imperial examination system is dark.

Imperial examination was a system for selecting officials through examinations in ancient China. It is called imperial examination because it adopts the method of selecting scholars by subjects. In order to be promoted, Jinshi is allowed to "do what he likes" in principle, which is the most important feature of the imperial examination system.

The imperial examination system improved the previous employment system and completely broke the hereditary relationship of blood and the monopoly of clan; "The court is Tian Shelang, and the court is the emperor at dusk." Some capable literati in the middle and lower classes of society enter the upper classes of society and get the opportunity to display their talents. However, the content and form in the later period seriously bound the candidates, which made many people not pay attention to practical knowledge and bound their thoughts. This is a stereotyped writing system, not an imperial examination system. )

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Imperial Examination System