In ancient times, we had a certain name for readers after taking the meritorious name, such as Xiucai, Juren, Jinshi, Zhuangyuan and so on. In many costume TV series, people who have read books have the name of Xiucai, just like a Xiucai character in the TV series of the Wulin Waichuan TV series, always see him constantly taking exams to obtain meritorious names, saying that the students are called Xiucai, so what is the education of Xiucai compared with modern times?
Speaking of the issue of Xiucai, we have to say that the ancient talent selection system, from some historical dramas to see the content of the ancient imperial examination system, which was established by the Sui Emperor Sui Wendi, officially began with the Sui Emperor, and the perfection was in the Tang Dynasty. Many ancients who wanted to get in and out of the country had to take the examination of the imperial examination system, first to take a show talent, then to lift people, and then to have the ability to continue to take higher merits.
So after a person is admitted to the show, what is his level of education? If this show is compared with the modern cultural level, what is the academic qualification? Then Xiaobian will tell you about the culture of this talent. In ancient times, once the people who were admitted to the talent show, their status was different, and they were no longer ordinary people. To talk about the culture of this talent is equivalent to our undergraduates, or it can be understood as graduates of key universities such as 211, 985 and so on. Some people also compare the ancient show with the number of modern admissions, which can be regarded as a doctoral student.
In ancient times, if you wanted to be an official, it was not enough to only take a show, and you had to continue to test people to be an official as a county order, and to be a county official, so it seems that the examination show is like our modern examination of civil servants, which is equivalent to examining the academic qualifications of civil servants. If you look at the admission level, this test is equal to our modern primary school level. The next thing to continue to be tested after being admitted to the Xiucai level is to take the examination for lifting people, entering the soldiers, etc., usually taking the hospital examination first and then the township examination, and continuing to go up is the meeting test and the temple examination. From this point of view, Xiucai is equivalent to our primary school level, and if you continue to count it, it is middle school, university, graduate school, etc.
We can look at it from the perspective of cultural literacy, and xiucai can be regarded as the degree of modern junior high school student culture. In ancient times, there were very few readers compared with modern times, after all, education was not universal, most people could not afford to read books, basically earned money or farm work to support their families. Speaking of learning, tuition fees and book fees are usually unaffordable for ordinary people, and if you want to read a good book, you must have a solid family, so in ancient times, there were fewer people reading books than modern people. Ancient people who wanted to become officials had to go to the xiucai first, and then they had the opportunity to become officials, and if they wanted to be higher, they would then go up the exam step by step.