During the Tang Dynasty, the most important method of selecting the government officers is the imperial examination. Candidates who passed the subjects of the imperial examination such as Mingjing, Jinshi,Mingfa can become the local officials. Then they have the administrative power and the judicial power. But there are only two aspects in the content of the imperial examination that can reflect the Law of Tang Dynasty. The one aspect is the examination of Mingfa; the other one is the selection of candidates by the ministry of official. Few local officials have learned the law systematically. It is vital to deal the judicial cases in right way for every official. Comment on Tang Dynasty is the most important code in the Tang Dynasty. The basic spirit of the law is Confucianism,and the imperial examination is based primarily on knowledge of Confucian classics.The paper aim is to illustrate how to train the local official’s legal quality by the investigation on the content of the imperial examination, the selection of candidates by ministry of official and official’s legal practice. In the meantime, the paper tries to explain the intrinsic relationship among the Law of Tang Dynasty, Confucianism and the official selection system. |