Silence is a word. In the old society, idle people were forbidden to make noise when princes and officials went out.

Chapter 6 of the Scholars: "(Yan) borrowed a gold plate of Chaoxian, a white plate of Silence and Avoidance, and four cannons, and put them in the boat."

Step 2 avoid

Avoidance is actually a system of advocating honesty in history, in order to prevent officials from practicing favoritism and malpractice. "Anyone who avoids it cannot have the following calligraphy styles. Grandsons, fathers and sons, uncles and brothers cannot be in the same department, so that those who are under the official avoid it, and those who are supplemented by the official avoid it. " "Among the officials under the jurisdiction of foreign officials, there are Wufu family members and in-laws (mother's father and brother, wife's father and brother, son-in-law, son and daughter's in-laws), all of which are subordinate.

The Ming dynasty even stipulated that children of the royal family could not be officials and could not take the imperial examinations. Although the imperial court has to bear a lot of titles for this, even some excellent royal children have become useless and can only live a life of drunkenness, but the determination of the imperial court can also be seen in the spirit of heaven.