A Study On The Jiangxi Provincial Examination In Qing Dynasty

The dissertation focuses on the Jiangxi Provincial Examination in Qing Dynasty in a way which integrates time and space, system history and activity history. Also, some conclusions are drawn as follows:In the first chapter, there is a general description of the Jiangxi Provincial Examination in Qing Dynasty. First, it depicts the contents and characteristics of the examination's basic procedure such as time, examinee, rollcall, searching, announcement; Secondly, admission quota is divided into three parts to inquire the contents and variation characteristics of the examination. Finally, the author combs the transmutation characteristics of Jiangxi Examination Hall, which are turbulence in early stage, expansion in Medium-term and gradual extinction from its peak in late stage.The second chapter is about the Jiangxi Provincial Examination official in Qing Dynasty. The Outer-curtain officials, consisting of supervisors,monitors and other officials, have clear responsibilities and division of labor, which interact with each other. There are both common and individual in inner-curtain officials' appointment, itinerary, proposition, grading standards and text marking. In addition, to reduce the random error, the goverment of Qing Dynasty also established a strict evading system for examination officials.The third chapter refers to the windstorm of the Jiangxi Provincial Examination in Qing Dynasty, which contain Zashiting Case, cheating in examination and violation cases. In Zashiting Case, there are complex subjective and objective reasons, but careless proposition of the Jiangxi Provincial examination in Qing Dynasty is the fuse for the outbreak of the case. Cheating practices are various and mainly with attachments and recitation of old text. Violation of the Jiangxi Provincial Examination in Qing Dynasty mainly reflected in the rash copy and annotation alteration.In chapter four, through the comparison of Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, it find that the geographical distribution of Jie-yuan and Ju-ren in Jiangxi Province evolve from a serious regional imbalance to the relative balance. Central part of Jiangxi was the Jie-yuan assemble area, but the number of Jie-yuan from Ji'an County decreased sharply, while the number of Jie-yuan from Jian-chang and Fu'zhou tended to increase. Distribution of Jie-yuan among counties shows characteristics of Decentralization and equalization. When it comes to the number of Ju-ren, Central part of Jiangxi was also a assemble area, but the distribution tended to equalization among all counties. It shows that Ju-ren from Ji'an decreased sharply, while Ju-ren from Jian'chang Increased significantly and Ju-ren from South of Jiangxi and North of Jiangxi increased in some extent. In general, distribution of Ju-ren among counties developed toward the direction of equalization.In the last chapter, it discusses the Lu-ming banquet in the Jiangxi Provincial Examination in Qing Dynasty. Lu-ming banquet, originated in the ancient community drinking ceremony, became one of Imperial Examination ceremony in the Tang Dynasty, prevailed over the Song Dynasty and downsized obviously in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, restored in the Qing dynasty, which has an important research status. The research inquires the significance of Lu-ming banquet in the Jiangxi Provincial Examination in Qing Dynasty through old Ju-ren take part in Lu-ming banquet again.Contribution of this dissertation is to comb out the Characteristics of distribution of Jie-yuan and Ju-ren in Jiangxi with a conjunct method of history and statistics. In addition, the dissertation covers several aspects, such as the basic examination procedure, examination hall, admission quota, examination officials , cheating case in examination, Lu-ming banquet and the distribution of Jie-yuan and Ju-ren. Through comprehensive and in-depth analysis of them, there are some conclusions which, to some extent, fill the gaps in the field.