Baohe Hall was called "Hall of Conscience" and "Hall of Jianji" in Ming Dynasty, and it was not called "Baohe Hall" until the reign of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty. It is also one of the three halls of the Forbidden City, behind the Zhonghe Hall. It was built in the 18th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1420). Baohe Hall is one of the three halls in the Forbidden City. Baohe Hall is the place where the emperor fetes foreign princes and ministers on New Year's Eve every year, and it is also the place where imperial examinations are held.
Baohe Hall is 27 meters high and has a building area of 80 square meters. Pyramid roof with yellow glazed tiles at four corners, with rectangular plane. A pavilion-shaped square hall with four vertical ridges on the roof. The top of the four ridges are gathered into a pointed shape, and the spherical treasure top with bronze tires is inlaid on it. It was rebuilt during the reign of Qing Qianlong. Every year on New Year's Eve, the emperor would entertain the princes and ministers of various ethnic minorities here. Since the late Qianlong period, it has become a place to hold "court examinations".
Palace examination system
Palace examinations, also known as imperial examinations, Shi Ting and Pavilion Pairs, were drafted by the Cabinet and then submitted to the emperor for selection. Only those who have passed the exam can take part. Palace examination is mainly to distinguish those who have passed the examination and select officials. It is held once every three years. Those who are accepted are called "Jinshi", and the top three are "No.1 Scholar", "No.1 Scholar" and "Flower Exploration" in turn.
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the procedure was as follows: there must be a retest for the court exam before you can take the exam in the Baohe Hall of the Forbidden City. After the second interview, I should take the entrance exam on April 2 1 day, also in Baohe Hall. Palace exams only ask questions about exams. Candidates enter at dawn, go through the formalities of roll call, handing out papers, praising and saluting, and then issue questions related to the exam.
The topic of policy making in the early Qing Dynasty is one of current events, with a length of 200-300 words, asking one or two questions; After Kangxi, the topic was as long as five or six hundred words, or even thousands of words. In the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong (176 1), the title of the eight articles discussed by the ministers was changed to four articles. The length of the essay is not limited, generally about 2000 words. The beginning, end and middle writing all have certain format and word limit, with special emphasis on writing.
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