Since the establishment of the imperial examination system in the Sui and Tang dynasties to the abolition of the imperial examination system at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial examination system has existed in China for more than a thousand years, and it has been more and more valued by the rulers, so the person who takes the examination is the dragon and phoenix among the people, and will receive preferential treatment in all aspects.
The ancients paid attention to "the mother is precious to the son", once the son passed the examination, the natural mother will also follow the value of a hundred times, but it is not easy to get the imperial court's title, very few sons are admitted to the title, the emperor will be the mother of the crown, are in the official position of the crown to reach a certain level, or made an important contribution to the imperial court, will get the title. Although the specific regulations on this issue have been different in successive dynasties and dynasties, the general principle is the same, that is, according to the level of the official position and the size of the contribution.
The ancient people's understanding of home and country was the same, so they all adhered to the ideal of "ruling the country and the world together", so governing the country and governing the family followed the same principle. Let's look at an example of a mother changing her position in the family because of the imperial examination.
This man served as the overseer of the two Guangdong armies, three times as the governor of Hunan, the governor and the commander-in-chief of the Xiang Army, awarded the rank of general, the grand marshal of the army, and also served as the chairman of the National Government in Nanjing and the president of the Executive Yuan. His mother Li Shi was originally a yahuan, and after giving birth to Tan Yanmin, Tan Zhonglin accepted her as a little wife.
However, according to the etiquette of feudal society, concubines cannot eat with their masters, so Li can only eat standing in the side room and the next person every day, Tan Yanmin's father and wife sit and eat in the main room, in the face of such a situation, Tan Yanmin insisted on accompanying her mother to eat standing in the side room, and secretly resolved to change her mother's situation by taking the meritorious name.
So Tan Yanmin studied hard, writing an article every three days, in addition to reading and writing, he also had to write big characters, because he was determined and very diligent, so he was 13 years old in the examination, 22 years old in the middle of the jinshi, 24 years old in the jinshi. With this merit, his father, Tan Zhonglin, announced that Lee could sit and eat with everyone in the main room. This is the power of the imperial examination at the end of the Qing Dynasty. This is true within the family, let alone for a country.
In fact, in addition to the ancient emperors who rewarded the mother of the champion, rarely rewarded the father of the champion, because the filial piety in ancient times was the obligation of the children to the parents, and the emperor had already sealed the mother of the champion, which was carried out in accordance with the principle of "the mother is precious to the son", and the father of the champion could only rely on the father of the title to filial piety.
This is the requirement of feudal ethics and morality, and the emperor must not only write a good article, but also have good virtue and filial piety to his parents, so the emperor rarely rewards the father of the emperor. In addition, the bureaucrats of feudal society are "one person gets the Tao, the chicken dog ascends to heaven", even if the emperor does not reward the father of the Champion, his life will not have any difficulties, the Champion will soar, and the family of the Champion will naturally follow the luck.
The emperor of feudal society mainly carried out universal rewards for the family of his favored concubines, which was the emperor's household affair, but even then there were many foreign relatives monopolizing power and disrupting the imperial program, so it was necessary to strictly guard against outsider emperors such as Zhuangyuan, so as not to over-reward and cause new official factions.
Even the title of the mother of the emperor is an honor, without real power, and then there is a reward for some money. Even if the reward is to be given to the father of the yuan, it is given some false name, and there is no actual power.
This is actually a very scientific system design, the parents of the Zhuangyuan are not necessarily educated, may not be competent for some management work, if they arbitrarily seal the official, it will inevitably harm Cangsheng, and even cause the Zhuangyuan family to form a party for personal gain, interfere in the government, endanger the stability of the regime, and also seriously violate the original intention of the imperial examination.
Therefore, the reward for the father and mother of the champion is only an honor and economic reward, praising their efforts in educating talents for the country, and encouraging more people to cultivate their descendants to take the road of the imperial examination.