In the modern college entrance examination system, some areas have extra points policies for candidates who meet the conditions, such as competition prizes and provincial three good students. In fact, looking back at the talent selection mechanism in ancient history, there are also various bonus items, and at the same time, there are corresponding subtraction items. And some of the projects are amazing, making people cry and laugh!
In ancient times, the inspection system and examination system were actually similar to today's college entrance examination system, and the imperial court used these systems to select talents for the country. However, compared with the college entrance examination system, there is a clear difference between these systems and the college entrance examination system: whether it is the examination system or the examination system, the final decisive role is the interview of the emperor or the important minister! Since it is an interview, the coefficient of change is obviously much larger, and the most likely project to add points (or subtract points) to candidates is actually: appearance and speaking!
The addition (subtraction) of the value of the face
Talent is not enough, face value to make up! For example, the beautiful man Pan An in the Western Jin Dynasty (modern people describe beautiful men as still praising people: if Pan An looks like Pan An, this is enough to prove how amazing Pan An's beauty is), his grades are not very prominent when he is too young to study. However, because he was really beautiful, he was caught by Jia Chong, the examiner in charge of selecting talents at that time, and then directly changed from a student to a senior official of the imperial court. And Pan An also thanks to the appearance of his own face, at least ten years less than others!
Of course, with the example of extra points, there are naturally examples of subtractions. For example, in the Three Kingdoms period, the "Phoenix Chick" Pang Tong, Sima Hui's sentence "Wolong Phoenix Chick, get a peace in the world", you know that Pang Tong's ability is on par with the "Wolong" Zhuge Liang. However, compared with Zhuge Liang's "Three Gu Maolu", Pang Tong's job search was very difficult, and he was rejected by Sun Quan and Liu Bei, and it took several twists and turns to be recognized by Liu Bei. And why? It is because Pang Tong's appearance is too bumpy, so it is difficult to get the recognition and appreciation of others at the first time.
However, with the advancement of the times, the selection system of talents has also become more and more progressive. By the time of the Sui Dynasty, the imperial examination system had emerged! After the examination system, although the system has been improved a lot, there are still many emperors who judge people by their appearance! Otherwise, there would be no rumor that Tanhua was more valued than Yuanyuan! Isn't this because, in the eyes of the people of the time, the talent of Tanhua is not worse than the yuan, but the appearance is stronger than the yuan! In the case of two people with similar talents, people with high looks are obviously more likely to get the favor of others! Therefore, in the court, the third place of Tanhua is even more popular than the first place of The Champion! It can also be seen that there were not many people who paid attention to appearance in ancient times!
Add (subtract) points for spoken language
"Speak Mandarin well, go all over the world", from this saying, you can see how important it is to speak Mandarin well for communication. In the ancient scientific research system, the importance of this sentence is even more vividly reflected! Imagine if there were ten candidates who were interviewed by the emperor at the same time, but nine people had language barriers, so that the emperor could not understand what they said, then if you were the emperor, in the face of such ten candidates, which candidate would you hand-pick as the champion? And historically, there have been such similar things.
During the Song Dynasty, there was a candidate from an ethnic minority named Chen Yuanshi, because he spoke his hometown dialect, resulting in the examiner not understanding what the candidate wanted to express, so this Chen Yuanshi could only be a luosun mountain. On the contrary, Zheng Jiao, a candidate in Henan, was hand-picked as the fourth place in the first division because of his excellent oral language and good talent.
In the ancient examination system, there were not many other strange plus (minus) points, such as because the writing was really good, so it was particularly valued by the examiner, and then achieved excellent results. For another example, because the ancestors have contributed to the country, their children can also get yin supplements. Compared with the modern rigorous college entrance examination system, the ancient examination system is obviously very watery, and there is more room for hands and feet. For ordinary students in ancient times, it was even more difficult to get ahead.