A scholar must take the children's exam first, and the participants, regardless of their age, are called "Confucian scholars" or "children's students" after entering school, so they are called "students", also known as "sequential students" and commonly known as "scholars"
The county exam is divided into two categories: liberal arts and martial arts. Shaanxi Pucheng Examination Hall is an ancient county examination room with four courtyards and four entrances. Among them, the liberal arts examination room is in the Second Hospital, which is also the most important test center, and the martial arts examination room is in the Fourth Hospital. There were many examination subjects in the Tang Dynasty, and the permanent subjects mainly included Ming Jing (Confucian classics), Jinshi, (law), (writing) and (arithmetic). In the Ming Dynasty, Jinshi had only one subject. Clear attack and clear system. The content of imperial examinations in Ming and Qing dynasties is mainly eight-part essay.
"The main content of the so-called stereotyped writing test is the classics, poetry, books, rituals, changes, the Spring and Autumn Period, and selecting certain topics in the Five Classics for writing. The main formats of topic and writing are: breaking the topic (similar to the argument in the current composition), undertaking the topic (detailed explanation of the argument), opening the lecture (short argument thinking), starting (entering the argument), starting, middle and late, and bundling and sharing. In the current words, it is a proposition composition. "
The imperial examination papers in Qing dynasty were in a unified format. The cover is printed with information such as time, place, exam topic, which department invigilates, etc. The information of candidates is not filled in on the cover. Candidates hold a "floating ticket", similar to the current college entrance examination admission ticket. Only numbers are filled in on the cover. After the exam, the marking teacher finishes marking the papers, and then corresponds to the candidates' names according to the numbers.
There is also a saying in ancient times that the test paper should be answered in a special calligraphy style. If it is written in other fonts, it is not necessary. At the same time, the paper should be kept clean. Therefore, good handwriting is particularly important.
But the martial arts exam doesn't need so many cultural courses, only three courses are needed. The first one is archery, the second one is riding and shooting, and the third one is literature test. Compared with liberal arts, the examination paper is relatively simple. Martial arts examination is more about the art of war and military theory, in the words of now.