Eight-part essay is a style of imperial examination in Qing dynasty, and Shen Lun is a style of modern civil servant selection, with no difference in status. They are all used for selection.

Eight-part essay refers to the eight parts of the article, and its style has a fixed format: it consists of eight parts: breaking the topic, receiving the topic, opening the lecture, entering the topic, starting the stock, middle stock, rear stock and bundle stock. The topics are all from the original texts in the Four Books and Five Classics.

Application refers to a style of given materials or specific topics, and it is a new style accompanied by the emergence and implementation of the civil service recruitment examination system.

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Eight-part essay (English translation: eight-part essay; ; Eight-part essay, also known as "Zhiyi", "Zhiyi", "Shi Wen" and "Barbie essay", is a style of imperial examination in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Eight-part essay is titled "Four Books and Five Classics", and its content must be in the tone of the ancients, and it is absolutely not allowed to play freely. The length of the sentence, the complexity of the text and the tone should also be written relatively, and the number of words is limited.

In the old imperial examination, the eight-part essay should be spoken in the tone of Confucius and Mencius, and four pairs should be plain, and the allusion to love affairs should not be used to blaspheme the saint. Each article includes four parts: from stock to stock.

Eight-part essay was originally the recommended format for writing argumentative essays, which was neither good nor bad in itself.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Eight-part essay.