1. Official Department granted officer:
Those who passed the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty only obtained the qualification of being an official. If you want to be an official, you must pass the official exam before you can be awarded an official. There are four criteria for official selection: first, good looks, second, orderly speech, third, neat and beautiful calligraphy, and fourth, beautiful language.
2. Return:
There were many subjects in the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty, but the scholars who came from Jinshi were especially respected. There is a saying that "study classics at the age of 30, and study classics at the age of 50": generally, one or two candidates will be admitted to Jinshi, and one or two candidates will be quiet in the exam.
3. Evaluation and release:
The imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty still retains its popularity since the Han Dynasty. Examiners not only rank candidates according to their grades, but also consider their popularity. So before the exam, he must gather in Beijing, submit his proud works to the dignitaries in Beijing, and invite them to become famous and study, so that they can be admitted even if they are not allowed on the spot. This practice is called "public examination system"
In addition, in the Tang Dynasty, Jinshi won the first prize, unlike Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, which were screened by counties, prefectures and governments, then by provinces, and then participated in the national examination. In the Tang Dynasty, only 1 time was carefully selected by several regions, and those who passed the examination could directly take the "provincial examination" (the national examination nominally presided over by Shangshu Province was equivalent to the later "senior high school entrance examination"), and the candidates accepted and the ranking of each person were all decided by one person. Moreover, the examination papers are not labeled, and sometimes they are not finished, but the rankings have been set, and some people want to be the champion and decide to be the champion. In this sense, the number one scholar in the Tang Dynasty is actually only equivalent to the "Huiyuan" in the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, even worse than Huiyuan.
The examination density in the Tang Dynasty was the highest in the whole imperial examination history. According to the records in the General Examination of Literature and History, it is legal to start the examination every year from the year of the founding of the People's Republic of China (6 18). In 289, * * * held 266 imperial examinations, almost every year.
In addition, the Tang Dynasty has always been tolerant of all kinds of fouls in the examination room, and there has never been such a bloody examination room case as the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The children of the imperial clan in the Tang Dynasty still took part in the imperial examination competition, and pursued to be on the list with the world's poor scholars without restriction, which was also a phenomenon that did not exist after the Song Dynasty (there were still a few remnants in the Song Dynasty).