(1) Background: Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the selection of officials has paid attention to family status, which is not conducive to selecting people with real talents and practical knowledge to be officials. In order to change this disadvantage, the Sui Dynasty established a new system of selecting officials.
(2) Founding of the People's Republic of China: Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty began to select officials by means of examinations. Yang Di, Emperor Yangdi of Sui Dynasty, formally established a scholar, and selected talents according to the examination results. The imperial examination system in China was formally born.
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From 65438 BC+078 BC, Liu Heng, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, first selected senior officials through examinations, and started the imperial examination system in 605 AD, which experienced more than 780 years of hard exploration. This is a process of acquiring new knowledge through practice, and it is also a process in which the clan system gradually declines and the centralized bureaucratic political system gradually takes its place. ?
In 58 1 year, Emperor Wen of Sui established the Sui Dynasty and unified the whole country in 589. Yang Guang ascended the throne in 604, and then carried out a series of reforms. The imperial examination began in the Sui Dynasty, which is the understanding of most scholars, as evidenced by "Emperor Yang founded the Jinshi Branch" in Selected Classics II. Mr. Liu Haifeng, who initiated the Imperial Examination, more clearly "thought it was in July, the first year of Daye (605)". From then on, a new era of official-to-official system in China began-the imperial examination system.