Posts Awarded to Jinshi from Emperor Tongzhi's to Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty Discussion on the Related Arguments in the Reference Recorded about Imperial Examination in the Qing Dynasty

Taking an overall survey of the studies of the Yuan history, we find that an all round study of the imperial examinations in the Yuan Dynasty has been made and remarkable achievements gained.

The Additional Palace Examination,the non-palace examination and the recording of literatures in Qing s Imperial Examination;

Taking forbidden material into the examination room was one of the fraudulent practices in imperial examinations, which came into being long before the Qing Dynasty, when imperial examinations were regularly held.

Imperial examination superstition is that people describe the objective result of imperial examinations to the superstition factor,or hope to influence the result of the examination through the superstition means.

The examination system of the government functionary, carried out in the latest years, inherits Chinese ancient imperial examination system as well as develops the western government functionary examination system, which provide a great deal of enlightenment for the government functionary system at the present stage.

However, it has been used for as long as five hundred years, for which there are three main reasons: firstly, it is employed in imperial examination system so as to satisfy the demand of ruling class for consolidating system and maintaining doctrines; secondly, used to test scholars, it makes contributions to the selection of talented people; lastly, the long- existing stereotyped cultu.

The imperial examination system of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not only similar to the traditional exam,but also has its own features.