Ye Qi (date of birth and death is unknown), the word Sike, was the top scholar of Cohen in the year of the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 988). Jian 'an (now Nanyamei Village, Jian 'ou City, Nanping) was born and later moved to Li Chonghua, Jianyang (now Fang Shu Township, Jianyang District, Nanping). Up to now, Fang Shu Township still has the place name of Champion House.
According to records, Ye Qi is the 50th grandson of Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang and the 10 grandson of Ye Hao, the first secretariat of Jianzhou. Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang is Ye Gong, and the idiom "Ye Gong likes dragons".
There are many talented people and celebrities in the Ye family. In history, there are as many as 77 Jinshi named Ye in Jian 'ou. Ye Qi has been very clever since he was a child. He studied Confucianism in primary school and read a lot of poetry books. According to the record of "Continuing the History as a Mirror", in the leap of May in the year of Duan A.D. (988), the Ministry of Ritual opened a doctoral class, bringing 28 scholars to Sioux City. After the list was published, Ye Qi and other scholars thought it was unfair to take the scholar, drummed and complained, and demanded a retrial. The enlightened Emperor Taizong sent a letter in Chongzheng Hall for a second interview, and got 700 people from the following subjects.
Fang Shu Town, Jianyang District
Ye Qi failed the list for the second time, beating gongs and drums again. In June, the imperial court organized the examination for the third time, and hundreds of people passed it, from which they re-examined the poems and took 3 1 person. The examiner hates Ye Qi's arrogance and hopes that he will fail again. He specially gave the name "A leaf falls, and the world knows autumn", which means that if you drop Ye Qi alone, the rest of the candidates can still become scholars, and the court can also get the talents of pillars.
Because of the strict test paper secrecy measures at that time, although the examiner hated Ye Qi, he could not cheat from it. After the exam, the examiner sent the top ten "gift rolls" to Emperor Taizong for royal approval.