What roles did the imperial examination system play in the cultivation and maintenance of traditional Chinese culture?

1. The imperial examination system was the fairest form of talent selection possible during the feudal era, expanding the social dimension of the feudal state's introduction of talent and absorbing a large number of people from the middle and lower classes into the ruling class. Especially during the Tang and Song dynasties, when the imperial examination system was at the beginning of its development and maturity, it showed a vigorous and progressive character, forming a golden age of cultural development in ancient China.

2. On the whole, historians are basically positive about the imperial examination system in the Tang Dynasty, believing that it recruited talents for the Tang rulers, provided a new way for the lower class to rise, shook the gate system, expanded the ruling base, and promoted the development of culture.

3. The imperial examination system created a culture of learning in China at that time, which was conducive to the inheritance as well as the development of traditional Chinese culture.

Expanded Information

Song dynasty imperial examination eliminated the introduction, purely by the examination paper to determine the selection, but the unreasonable content of the examination is more prominent, poetry and fugue, the scripture is not a scientific measure of selection of talents. Like Wang Anshi, Su Shi brothers, Fan Zhongyan, such as both long literature and political talent, is a rare rare.

Tang Dynasty "through the list" approach allows the examiner has greater autonomy, as long as the examiner is worth, you can choose those who are not long in the literature but both moral and talent of the scholar, the Tang Dynasty, the outstanding performance of the minister of ministers more than the Song Dynasty. And the Song Dynasty, a decision on the examination paper, will make it difficult for the talented people who are not long in literature, and single literary talent but do not know how to govern the people may be selected in the high first, such as Huang Tingjian, Zhang Jucheng and so on.

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