The Study For The Successful Candidate In The Highest Imperial Examinations Of Qing Dynasty

The imperial examination had taken an immeasurable effect on the development of the feudalism society since Sui and Tang dynasty . The imperial examination in the provincial military exam was one of the most important element of the imperial exam which was founded by wu zetian . The imperial exam system was lasted for one thousand and two hundred years, which selected a lot of excellent persons who can deal with the state affairs well and keep the national security. the successful candidates in the highest imperial examinations of the provincial military are the outstanding ones. Qing dynasty as the last loyal court of the feudal society had to undertaken the task of inheriting and developing the imperial exam of the feudal society. On one hand, the qing dynasty imperial exam would get some achievement of the successive dynasties. Both quantities and quality of the qing imperial examination had got the summit of the history. The successful military imperial candidates had contributed to the society in many areas. On the other hand, for the special history background in the late of qing dynasty ,the society was behind the demand of the times. Then the successful candidates of military in the imperial exam began to decline , in the last disappeared, which attracted the eyes of people. So ,this paper chose the successful candidates in the highest imperial exam as the objects of our research, which was try to give the successful candidates of the highest imperial exam a new acquaintance and to see the position in history.The whole paper including a introduction and four chapters. The introduction simply show the sense and the way I chose to research the successful candidates of the imperial exam in military.The first chapter introduces the evolution of the imperial exam in military and also tell us the development of the successful candidates. Through the study of the evolution of the imperial exam, the paper give a clear and all around introduction about the development of the imperial exam, which will provide the material for the study of the imperial exam.The second chapter analyses the ways how the successful candidates comes out, the salaries and the social status of them. The qing imperial exams in military was consisted by four grade exam system. The practice martial art scholars need four periods that is native exam,the meeting exam and final imperial exam. During the selecting process the common people become to the highest successful candidate at once. The successful candidates of the higest imperial exam in military could get the excellent salaries that are equal to the successful candidates of arts. The first time to give titles to the military candidates maybe higher than the arts ones , the status was also higher than the arts.The third chapter discuss the history achievement of the successful candidates of the imperial exam. The achievements of the military imperial exam are mainly consisted politics ,military and society. The political effect shows the imperial court fasten its monarchical power by controlling the register of the imperial candidates. The court keep the general amount of the candidates through innovating the content of the imperial exam which aimed at getting the support of the scholars that can help the court to strengthen the basis of the imperial . military contributions given by the imperial exam is the arise of the excellent military leaders who played important roles in suppressing disturbance , keeping the stable of the society by resisting the conquer of the other nations, maintaining the unite of the nation. Except training militaries and developing their arms, the candidates had done a lot of thing to improve the people's livelihood, such as land reclamation, denoting money for schools and relieving for victims.The fourth chapter expound the history limitation of the imperial exam then put forward the introspection on it. For the qing dynasty was lasted by times and also the imperial candidates was influenced inevitably . qing and her imperial candidates were all on the way of decline. The imperial candidates were no longer brave under the condition of invasion. The limitations of imperial candidates exposed gradually. Cold weapon time standards were not fit to the times which was used to select the military imperial candidates .The assignment of candidates was too much so there was little vacate positions for the changing of the component became impossible. The aim of military imperial exam aimed at winning the candidates, which lead the innovation of the exam could not took effect, the work of the candidates were on the way down. The essence of the military candidates exam was one of the system to select the talent person while the successful candidates were the highest candidates were chosen under by this system. The selection of military successful candidates experienced two different stages, they were the middle-early and later stages. The performance of the successful candidates are absolutely different. The early successful candidate had done very well job , which gave us inspiration of the selection of militaries. Make a general survey of the process that the military candidate exam from the beginning to the disappearance we can get some ideas: first of all, the content of the military candidate selection should advance with the times. In addition, the scale of militaries should be controlled. The third, pay attention to the all sidedness of the selection content. The fourth , the payment of the militaries should be took seriously.This paper will be a inspiration for the further studying of the successful candidate in the highest imperial examination system which will help us to have a good knowledge of the process how it came out to be. Summing up the experience of the military, candidate election will provide reference about how to select militaries currently.