In the first month of the third year of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, in the third year of Yang Di Daye (607), the Jinshi Department was set up, and Jinshi was selected through examinations. After the Sui Dynasty unified the whole country, in order to adapt to the development and changes of feudal economic and political relations, expand the requirements of the feudal ruling class to participate in political power, strengthen centralization, restore the power of selecting officials to the central government, and replace the nine-grade system with the imperial examination system.
1September 2, 905, Yuan Shikai and Zhang Zhidong called for the suspension of the imperial examination in order to promote learning and apply it. Since 1906, the Qing court issued an imperial edict to stop all township examinations, and provincial examinations also stopped. The ministers of the Ministry of Housing quickly distributed all kinds of textbooks and instructed the governors to raise funds, and the prefectures and counties quickly set up Mongolian primary schools in the township.
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The abolition of the imperial examination system accelerated the disintegration of the Qing Dynasty and promoted the modernization of China. The abolition of the imperial examination system has greatly liberated school education as a vassal of the imperial examination, and various new schools have sprung up. The rapid development of new schools brought up a batch of new intellectuals and the first batch of scientific and technological elites in modern China, which changed the situation of controlling education in Qing Dynasty.
In the later historical development, this new group of intellectuals gradually realized that China should catch up with the pace of western modernization. After the imperial examination was no longer the only way to get a career, intellectuals gradually got rid of the shackles of feudal bureaucrats and learned from the West in politics, economy, culture, science and technology, military and other fields. To promote the modernization of China society.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Imperial Examination System