On December 6th, the Qing government ended the imperial examination system in 1905: This system had led the world for more than 1,000 years

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On December 6th, the Qing government ended the imperial examination system in 1905: This system has led the world for more than 1,000 years.

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China has been the fundamental system of the country for more than 1,000 years.

It can be said that the imperial examination is one of the characteristics of ancient Chinese civilization, maintaining the stability of the dynasty to the greatest extent.

The most important meaning of the imperial examination system is to provide a channel for civilians from the bottom to the top.

Even the low-level scholars like Zhou Jin and Fan Jin in "The Scholars" have a chance to rise to the top.

Zhou Jin in the book was originally the bottom of the bottom, even the most ordinary villagers can ridicule him and run on him.

He is down to the age of more than sixties, and he has to go to book books for his brother-in-law (an ordinary businessman). As long as you can write things like bookkeeping, a cat or a dog can do it, and your income is just a living. Attention, everyone, Zhou Jin is worse than Fan Jin. Fan Jin was not considered a talent in his 50s, but he still had a wife and a family. Zhou Jin didn't even have a home, he was alone.

However, after Zhou Jinzhongju, it was completely different, and later became a product of the Guozijian Division, the sixth grade. If Zhou Jin is not too old, he still has a chance to continue to rise. Compared to the previous status, it is completely different.

If this is a novel, what about the real history?

is almost the same.

For example, Lin Zexu, his father is a teacher, and his mother is an ordinary housewife, also belonging to the bottom of the society.

Historical records: The family has a large population, there are too many monks and porridge, and even three meals are unsustainable. Lin's mother, Chen Xu, kept her husband secret and secretly used the craft of "Nuhong" to help make up for the family in order to maintain the family life.

Lin Zexu was born in such a low-level family, but later became a first-class member, Governor of Huguang, Governor of Shanxi and Guizhou.

Under the hereditary system of Europe, it is impossible for people like Lin Zexu to appear.

The imperial examination began in the Sui Dynasty. Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, China directly adopted the hereditary system. That is, the eight iron hat kings of the Qing Dynasty, Lao Tzu passed to his son, son to grandson. The class is completely solidified, and the low-level civilians have no day in their lives.

In many wars, soldiers don’t work hard, and no one wants to work hard for the nobles. At the same time, because the positions are hereditary, many wine bags and rice bags occupy high positions. This is "meat eaters despise and fail to contemplate."

Later, Shang Yang made a reform and allowed the civilians at the bottom to have the opportunity to become at least the middle class or even the top. This kind of reform to change the fundamental system quickly made the Qin country stronger, and also caused Shang Yang's own ruin.

Since the Han Dynasty, China has gradually adopted the recommendation system, which is the so-called filial piety.

Ju Xiaolian is to recommend local talents to work in the government.

Can everyone see the problem? First of all, what criteria are used to determine talents, is it really only filial piety?

In addition, this recommendation is 100% fraudulent.

Why do Chinese universities dare not open up their own enrollment casually today? After the opening, I still don’t know how much corruption there is, and it recruits the children of the rich.

As a result of the recommendation system, most of the recommended talents areFamily members and members of aristocratic groups have nothing to do with ordinary people, and the social class is still solidified.

So in that era, everyone attached great importance to birth.

Everyone still remember that in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Liu Bei obviously saved Dong Zhuo's life.

But Liu Bei said that he was a civilian and had no official position, so Dong Zhuo didn't look at him immediately.

This kind of class solidification never made its mark, and caused a continuous rebellion, that is, "the princes and generals are kind to each other."

The imperial examinations that began in the Sui Dynasty were definitely the most advanced in the world.

Normally speaking, a well-written article is not necessarily a talent, but at least you can see the person's thinking level and IQ.

These two points are relatively high, and other skills can be learned later.

Everyone pays attention to the implementation of imperial examinations in Song Ming and Qing Dynasty are relatively stable. Take the Song Dynasty as an example. Regardless of whether there were continuous civil wars and rebellions in the Southern and Northern Songs, the main reason was that class contradictions were eased.

Unfortunately, the imperial examination system has gradually become something backward. After the emergence of

stereotypes, the imperial examination was even more backward.

The imperial examinations gradually evolved into people who had the conditions to prepare for the examinations for a long time (usually not the low-level civilians). At the same time, although the eight-legged essay is easy to read and relatively fair, it may not be able to find talent.

Eight-legged essay is more like a word game. Some nerds who are not familiar with the world can also write well.

On the contrary, such a talented person as Zuo Zongtang still cannot write eight-part essays.

In addition, because the eight-legged essay is of little use in real life except for examinations.

The promotion rate of imperial examinations is often one-tenth, and the elimination rate is extremely high, resulting in a large number of scumbags. For example, Hong Xiuquan and his like prepared for the exam for more than 10 years, but could not rely on the imperial examination to be an official. They could only make a living by teaching. It was very difficult to make a living. They became a waste of society and were destined to be destined for life. And Hong Xiuquan was unwilling to do this waste, so there was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

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