Dai Binyuan studied in a private school in his hometown since he was a child. He studied with his father in Wuyi County at the age of 9. In the 11th year of Xianfeng (Xinyou year) of the Qing Dynasty, he was a scholar (scholar) at the age of 25; In the fifth year of Guangxu (Jimao year), he ranked first in the Gongsheng imperial examination and served as a small Beijing official in the household department. Later, he was elected to the imperial court as the head of the household department. In the same year, he ranked 13th in the Shuntian rural examination and passed the imperial examination. In the sixth year of Guangxu (gengchen year) ) 1 Jinshi in the 2nd place in the palace examination, won the 2nd place in Chuanlu (the first place), the first and second place in the imperial examination, and was appointed as a concubine in the Imperial Academy of Gengchen and Guangxu.