China has a long history, since the Sui Dynasty, the imperial examination system has gradually become the most basic official system in China's feudal society, which has also become the only channel for many poor children to go to the imperial court to become officials, for which many people have studied hard, with the modern Qing Dynasty, because of the limitations of the examination content and system, the imperial examination was finally abolished in 1905.
Do you know who the last champion is? Many people will feel strange, his name is Liu Chunlin, in 1904 was selected by Cixi, people do not know that it is also reasonable, in the late Qing Dynasty there were so many deafening things, for a yuan that did not set off much change, people do not have much impression.
However, when it comes to Liu Chunlin's road to the top, there is a bit of a year of coincidence in it, and this name was not originally his. After the examination of candidates from all over Beijing, in fact, a round of palace examinations will be held, and the examination papers will be submitted for the emperor to review personally, this round is also a model, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has actually ranked out, the examination papers will be arranged according to the ranks, the emperor only needs to follow the list on the line, the title can actually be fixed, the examiner at that time was not Guangxu, but the Qing Dynasty ruler Empress Dowager Cixi.
In the final examination held this time, the candidate named Tan Yanmin was the first, and when Cixi reviewed the examination paper, she was very disgusted by this name, and she immediately thought of Tan Sitong, who wanted to assassinate herself in the Wushu Reform Law a few years ago, and seeing that Tan Yanmin was from Hunan and was a fellow countryman, she was even more suspicious, so she did not promote him as the first place. On the contrary, Liu Chunlin, who ranked second, had a good name, and at this time, Daqing was in a critical moment of death, and he just needed a "Ganlin", and the words he wrote were even more satisfactory to Cixi. In this way, Liu Chunlin came to the top of the list with luck.
However, everyone must not think that Liu Chunlin's title is completely obtained by luck, and he also has his own capital, that is, a beautiful xiaokai. Liu Chunlin is very good at calligraphy, his handwriting is clean and steely, deeply respected by the world, after Liu Chunlin became famous, there is a saying in the world that "Da Kai Xue Yan (Yan Zhenqing), Xiao Kai Xue Liu".
Later, Liu Chunlin's temple examination paper was disclosed, we can see that the temple examination is only a few hours of time, Liu Chunlin's temporary writing of words, but as neat and clean as the printed body, which also makes countless modern people ashamed, I believe that many people have been manipulating office appliances for a long time, and there are few opportunities to write with a pen.
Liu Chunlin's handwriting can be said to be on par with experts, and even more than some people's, seeing words as people, Liu Chunlin's character is also very worthy of people's admiration, after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, he briefly served in Yuan Shikai's mansion, and then resigned his official post and returned home, during the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Chunlin, who lived in Beijing, was invited by the Japanese puppet government, hoping that he could assume the post of mayor of the puppet Beijing Municipality, was rejected by Liu Yizheng's words, and the Japanese and puppet authorities who were embarrassed and angry ransacked the calligraphy and paintings collected by Liu Linian. Liu Chunlin finally died of a heart attack in 1944 at the age of 72 in the midst of worrying about the country and the people, and his deeds are worthy of the admiration of all Chinese