The thirty years of Hongwu (A.D. 1397) is destined to be an unusual historical test. After this examination, all the 52 people admitted are from the south. After the entrance examination in March, Chen? Be handpicked as the champion. Liu Sanwu and Bai Xindao, examiners for this year's Spring Festival, are also southerners. Scholars in the north think that they have been treated unfairly, and the examiner is partial to southerners.
In order to quell the anger of the northern scholars, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty, appointed Zhang Xin, the former top scholar, as imperial academy's assistant to recheck the examination paper, and as a result, the most unlucky top scholar Chen appeared in history. Still on the admission list, this result is not what Zhu Yuanzhang wants to see. Bai Xindao, Zhang Xin, Chen? People were sentenced to death. Liu Sanwu, 85, was exiled.
In June of the same year, Zhu Yuanzhang personally presided over the marking and admitted 6 1 northern Jinshi.
This year's imperial examination has produced two gold medals, so it is also called "South List" and "North List".
The North-South List case is purely a political injustice. Liu Sanwu, known as "Tan Tan Weng", is a well-read and world-famous Confucian who has no brains. He was recommended to be an official in North Korea at the age of 73. He was 85 years old when the North-South List case was issued. He has no reason to favor the whole list for profit.
The North-South List case behind the North-South List case fully reflects the imbalance of education level between the North and the South in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty. The reasons for this imbalance are as follows:
First, the cultural gap between north and south increased after the third crossing.
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Jin Jun went south, and Qin Hui and two emperors were forced to hunt in the north. Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou crossed the South China Sea and established the Southern Song Dynasty.
In Song Dynasty, the economic center moved to the south of the Yangtze River, and a large number of social elites moved south, which increased the economic and cultural gap between North and South.
Second, although the political and economic center of the Yuan Dynasty was in the north, they could not correctly view the relationship between China culture and Mongolian civilization.
Most rulers in the Yuan Dynasty had a foreign resistance to China culture. Kublai Khan was surrounded by a group of Confucian masters such as Liu, Wang E and Yao Shu. On the surface, Kublai Khan was an enlightened master who tried to integrate Han and Mongolian culture, but unfortunately he could not break the cage of despising China culture.
After the Yuan Dynasty entered the Central Plains, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty had a biased attitude towards China culture, which doomed them to be unable to narrow the cultural gap between the North and the South.
The third point: At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was war in the north.
The Ming Dynasty recovered Beijing from south to north, and the north became the main battlefield. It goes without saying that war destroyed culture. After Xu Da pacified Beijing, books of the Yuan Dynasty were brought to Nanjing.
Ming Taizu was the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. The general received the book from the library and sent it to Nanjing. Later, he asked the quartet to write a letter, set up a secretary to supervise the process, and sought to change the Hanlin classics.
It is a happy event to sum up ten years of hard work and win the highest prize, but what about Zhang Xin and Chen? Finally, he became the victim of Zhu Yuanzhang's appeasement of northern scholars. The North-South List Case contributed to the later North-South Middle Volume System, which was an important case in the development history of the imperial examination system in Ming Dynasty.