In the 31st year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1905), August 4th, quasi-Yuan Shikai, etc. "Please stop the imperial examination in order to expand the scope of the school, and try to fold it properly." The imperial edict of Emperor Guangxu pointed out that the imperial examination continued and the people were onlookers, which hindered the promotion of the school. "Starting from the subject of C-Wu (1906), all township examinations were stopped, and provincial age examinations were also held. Give tribute a way out in the past. "
Previously, 1888 was approved to set up a doctoral program; 1898 "Hundred Days Reform" proposed to offer specialized courses in economics and cancel stereotyped writing examination, but it was1901when the "New Deal" was implemented; 1903, Zhang Zhidong, Yuan Shikai, etc. It was written that the imperial examination was urgently abolished, and it was intended to be divided into three subjects, so as to reduce the number of township meetings or even stop them.
In the meantime, the Constitution of imperial academy (1902) and the Constitution of imperial academy (1904) were successively promulgated, which accelerated the process of abolishing the imperial examination. The abolition of the imperial examination swept away the obstacles to the establishment of new schools, and there was a craze for running schools. By 1909, there were more than 50,000 new schools of all levels and types, with students studying outside Beijing160,000.
Reasons for Abolishing the Imperial Examination in the Late Qing Dynasty When the Imperial Examination was abolished in the late Qing Dynasty, the evaluation of the Imperial Examination was one-sided, and the imperial examination system had already formed a bad impression in the minds of China people. Now we need to clarify many misunderstandings in order to restore the true colors of history.
A century later, we should realize that the imperial examination is not the source of all evil in traditional society. The imperial examination was abolished mainly because of its poor system, but because the contents of the imperial examination did not meet the needs of the times, especially the eight-part essay dragged down the whole imperial examination system.
However, after the reform of 190 1 year, the examination content and style of the imperial examination system have almost completely changed. In the past, people thought that bad stereotyped writing no longer existed, and the main reason for saying that the imperial examination system was bad disappeared.
It is only because of the great centripetal force of the imperial examination that the establishment of a new school is hindered. Under the background of domestic troubles and foreign invasion in the late Qing Dynasty, with the spread of western learning to the east and the strong intervention of foreign forces, the abolition of the imperial examination system was actually the inevitable result under the background of the late Qing Dynasty.