Boy Interrupted: What was the purpose of civil service exams in ancient China?
I’ve been trying to look this up, but i couldn’t find anything with detail. What was the purpose of civil service exams in Ancient China?
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Answer by The Girl With the BLACK Jacket
—To educate the bureaucrats
Try to relate it to modern day. You don’t send in random, untrained people that you found on the street to build buildings or teach students.
People had to study Confucianism along with other texts to pass these examinations.
The people who passed these exams were definitely more qualified than random peasants wandering the streets.
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