I want to know the story about the champion.

In the imperial examination, the champion is the first person, the first name after the provincial examination is Xie Yuan, and the first name in the senior high school entrance examination is Huiyuan. Palace examination champion. Under the Tang system, all candidates who bring juren to Beijing must submit a petition. Because the person who comes first is called the leader, he is called the champion. Since the implementation of the imperial examination system in the Sui Dynasty, it has gone through the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was abolished in Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty in 3 1 (1905), which has been more than 1000 years. In the era of "learning to be excellent is to be an official", scholars in feudal society took the examination of the top scholar as the only way to enter the official career. "Ten years of cold window, nobody cares, and became famous in one fell swoop"; "There is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a golden house in the book ..." These famous sayings inspired many students to work hard, hang their beams and stab their stocks, drill stereotyped writing, and go forward bravely. The number of the top middle school scholar is "Dakui Tianxia", which is the highest honor in the family name. Because it is the first in palace examination, it is also called Dianyuan. It is also called Dingyuan because it ranks first among the three Ding families. But not all the top scholars in ancient times were the first in palace examination. Gu and his successors wrote the poem "Su Ping Li Kang", "It's good to wake up and hear the champion's voice in your ears." But Zheng Gu is the eighth, not the first. The Annals of the Ten Kingdoms in the Spring and Autumn Period in the Southern Han Dynasty of the Five Dynasties said, "Liu Li (Yan) made a rule that the winner of the top prize must be castrated first. Therefore, Luo said in the Southern Han Palace Ci: "Don't blame the imperial court for boasting about food and clothing. "

The number one scholar is a specialty of China and one of the most grandiose terms in Chinese imperial examination system. The selection of the top scholar in the imperial examination system was based on the Sui Dynasty, established in the Tang Dynasty and completed in the Song Dynasty. From the imperial examination in the fifth year of Tang Gaozu Wude (622) to the last scientific examination in the thirtieth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1904), during the period of 1282, * * selected 654 literary champions and 65438 martial champions (with names recorded).

The number one scholar is similar to the number one scholar in today's gaopu exam. At present, there are about 700 top scholars who have left their names in historical books. They all became world-famous after studying hard and became the leaders of scientific research at that time. Because literature and philosophy are the criteria for selecting talents in past dynasties, although there are many politicians and historians among these top scholars, there are still many writers. Among them, He, Wang Wei and Liu Gongquan in Tang Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang in Song Dynasty, Yang Shen in Ming Dynasty and Weng Tonghe and Zhang Jian in Qing Dynasty. The number one scholar in middle school is called "the best in the world", which is the highest honor for scholars. However, due to personal factors or the constraints of the environment at that time, most of the champions were unable to reach out and make a difference, and eventually got lost in the torrent of history.

At first, the champion was called the "champion". It turns out that the taxis that took the exam in the Tang Dynasty were sent to Beijing by state tributes, and "forms" need to be delivered before taking the exam, which is similar to the situation of filling in the information in today's exam. After the exam, the one who puts the highest score at the front is called "head". The first person is also called the champion because of his head shape. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the imperial examination was listed as the number one scholar, the number two scholar and the number two flower explorer, collectively known as the "Three Ding Family". The position of the champion is becoming more and more special. As usual, the new champion is edited by Liu Pin Hanlin Academy. Hanlin is called "storing the phase" because this position is closer to the emperor and the chances of promotion are faster than those in the same list.

In the court examination in Qing Dynasty, the examinee's calligraphy is the main way to judge its quality. The Qing government originally only required the papers to be neat and tidy, which was convenient for examiners to read. During the reign of Kangxi, Kangxi, who was middle-aged, became interested in calligraphy, so scholars all over the world practiced calligraphy diligently in an atmosphere of upward mobility and downward mobility. This trend has a great influence on the selection of top scholars. In the 30th year of Kangxi, palace examination elected Wu Min as the number one scholar, but Kangxi liked the calligraphy of Dai Youqi, who ranked second, so Dai Youqi became the number one scholar appointed by hand.

The first scholar in China's imperial examination history was Sun Wude in the 5th year of Tang Dynasty (AD 622), and the last scholar was in the 30th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1904).