In the Tang Dynasty in China, all the candidates who were promoted to the imperial examination were sent by the local authorities to take the examination, so Xiang Yan called the provincial examination the first: Xie Yuan. It was called Jietou before the Song Dynasty. The official imperial examinations in Ming and Qing Dynasties were divided into three grades: Zhongju, Zhongju and palace examination. Jurors in rural examinations are commonly known as Lian Xiao, and the first place is Xie Yuan.

Xie Yuan was the first in the provincial examinations in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and also the first in the whole province.

Jinshi in Ming and Qing dynasties can be directly assigned official positions by the state, and generally, at worst, eight deputy county magistrates can be mixed. Juren is different. Although a juren is qualified as an official, he must meet the conditions of failing to enter the Jinshi in three consecutive subjects, then report to the official department and be interviewed by the official department (mainly by appearance). The elected juren will line up to arrange for you to take office when there is a vacancy in the office. The office assigned to juren is generally a small official such as fatwa (director of education), with nine grades. If you are assigned to the magistrate of a county and Bapin, therefore, if you say that you got the title of Xie Yuan, and then you didn't get into the Jinshi, you may be just a small official with Bapin, and even you may not get the official position (after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there have been people who died without being an official).