The TV series "Outer Forest" must be unfamiliar to no one, right? This sitcom full of warmth and laughter can be called the memories of a generation. In "The Tale of Wulin", there is a bookkeeper named Lu Xiucai, who, despite the name of a showman, has always been joking that he is a scholar who is useless.
So the question is, shouldn't the status of ancient readers be very high, and why can Lu Xiucai only be a hotel to settle accounts? There is a misunderstanding in this, the status of ancient readers is high, but the problem is to see how much they have read. Xiu Cai can only be regarded as a poor student, and only a lifter can be regarded as a master. These two titles do not look next to each other, it seems that there is only one step away, but this step is difficult to ascend to the sky.
Speaking of which, we have to mention the ancient imperial examination system. China's ancient consciousness of the imperial examination system was formed in the Sui Dynasty, officially opened in the Tang Dynasty, perfected in the Song Dynasty, and developed to the peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial examination was generally considered to be divided into three levels, but it should be four levels specifically, namely the Tongsheng Examination, the Township Examination, the Hui examination, and the Temple Examination. The temple test is to meet the Holy Face on the Golden Ruan Hall, and this level will not be eliminated, but only ranked.
In addition, the tongsheng test is once again divided into three levels, namely the county test, the government test, and the hospital test, and must pass the college test to obtain the status of Xiucai. Although it takes three levels of examination to obtain the status of xiucai, this xiucai is only the lowest level of the imperial examination, equivalent to an entrance examination, and only by passing the status of xiucai can you really enter the government, state, and county schools to study.
And what is a lifter? Lifting people is the name that can only be obtained after passing the township examination, and we generally watch the "autumn" mentioned in the TV series to refer to the examination of lifting people. If it is said that the examination is equivalent to obtaining the current entrance examination, then the examination can be understood as passing the college entrance examination.
How important is the college entrance examination, I don't need to say that everyone knows it, right? Although colleges and universities are expanding today, college students are not so valuable, but in fact, for some more remote villages, being able to be admitted to key universities is still a big thing worth bragging about. The same is true for the examination of meritorious names.
Take the text we have learned, "Fan Jin Zhongju", as an example, when Fan Jin was just a showman, even his father-in-law, a butcher, dared to scold him at will; and when he was lifted, not only was he happy and broken, but even his throat was blocked by phlegm and began to go hysterical, his father-in-law did not dare to do anything to him; even the "old man" in the city specially sent him money.
If you are admitted to Xiucai, you only have the qualifications to further study, but if you are admitted to the people, you have the qualifications to become an official. In modern times, there are many "useless theories of reading", believing that as long as a person is talented, then no matter how well the book is read, it can be the same as the law. But after all, the people who can achieve such achievements are a minority, and for most people, learning is still the best way to enrich themselves and run to a brighter future.