Therefore, the school education system in Sui and Tang Dynasties, especially in Tang Dynasty, is a typical school education system in China feudal society.
After the reunification of the Sui Dynasty, some measures were taken in education in order to consolidate the rule. These measures did not play their due role during the short reign of the Sui Dynasty, but they had an impact on the development of education in the Tang Dynasty. Education in the Tang Dynasty was developed on the basis of education in the Sui Dynasty.
The development of school education in the Sui and Tang Dynasties is also closely related to the changes of cultural and educational policies in various stages. Promote the rulers of Confucianism and attach importance to the development of feudal official schools with the content of imparting Confucian classics; The rulers who promoted Buddhism did not pay attention to the development of feudal official schools, but to the expansion of Buddhist temples and the development of Buddhist education; Rulers who attach importance to Taoism set up schools specializing in Taoism, train and select Taoist talents and vigorously develop Taoist education.
Imperial Examination System in Sui and Tang Dynasties
The lifting system sprouted in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and really took shape in the Tang Dynasty. Yu Gang, Tang, He Zhongli and other scholars believe that the imperial examination began in the Tang Dynasty.
There are some doubts about the provisions of the imperial examination in Sui Dynasty in the Outline. He said: "If the method of investigating and citing countermeasures is the gestalt examination system, then it should be traced back to the Han Dynasty as a powerful country. If it is called the imperial court, it should be treated as a discipline and tested by scholars themselves, then it can be described as the gestalt examination system. It should start in the Tang Dynasty, not based on Sui, but in the Tang Dynasty. "
Scholars' "introspection" is the main symbol of the origin of the imperial examination system, which is a valuable point of view. Tang put forward a viewpoint similar to Yu Outline. He believes that the important feature of the imperial examination system in Tang Dynasty is whether self-taught examinations are allowed. In the late Northern and Southern Dynasties, some scholars taught themselves to take exams, which reflected that the imperial examination system was in its infancy.
He Zhongli proposed that the imperial examination system in the whole feudal society can basically be summarized as follows:
First, the promotion of scholars is allowed in principle, and it is not necessary to be specially recommended by ministers or county orders. This should be the most important feature of the imperial examination system and the most fundamental difference with it.
Second, "everything depends on the future of Wencheng", in other words, whether to raise a person or not and whether to degenerate must go through strict examination.
Third, scholars try regularly to give priority to Jinshi. Through various arguments, it is considered that the "self-recommendation" and examination methods in the above characteristics appeared in the late Northern and Southern Dynasties, but they formally appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Although the nine-level clock system was abolished in the Sui Dynasty, the inspection system was still implemented.