Most of the top scholars in history are young people. According to statistics, the average age of the number one scholar who can be tested in the year of birth and death is as follows:
The average number one scholar in Tang Dynasty was 29.4 years old;
The average number one scholar in Song Dynasty was 29.6 years old;
The average number one scholar in Yuan Dynasty was 29.5 years old;
The average number one scholar in Ming Dynasty was 32.3 years old;
The average age of top scholars in Qing Dynasty was 3 1.9 years old.
According to legend, Liang Hao, the oldest scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, participated in scientific research for 47 years and was 82 years old when he climbed Longmen. After winning the top prize, Liang Hao became a bachelor of Hanlin and became an official in Kaifeng. He was 92 years old. His son Gu Liang later won the highest prize.
The youngest number one scholar in history is Jia Zhi in Tang Dynasty and Ding Xian in Ming Dynasty. Both of them won the number one scholar at the age of 17, which can be described as a teenager's success. There is another interesting story about Ding Xian. It is said that on the eve of the entrance examination, Zhu Yuanzhang had a dream that a particularly large nail was firmly nailed to the wall. Zhu Yuanzhang saw Ding Xian's name when he was marking the examination paper the next day. Ding Xian was crucified and had a dream. Ding xian was appointed as the top scholar, which people call it? Meng Ying champion? .
By the way, "Beauty Case" is about Chen Shimei being recruited as Xu after winning the first prize, changing his mind with wealth, killing his wife and children, and being executed as a result. Because this story is widely circulated, many people often think that anyone who won the top prize in the imperial examination era may be recruited as Xu. Actually this is a misunderstanding. In history, Zheng Hao is the only champion recruited by Ma Xu. The reason is also very simple. In ancient times, most officials married early and won the first prize, and generally married and had children long ago.
Lianzhong Sanyuan: 17 people
The Song Dynasty established a three-level examination system of local, ritual and imperial examinations, which led to the emergence of? Even three yuan? Statement. Song dynasty? Three yuan? , refers to the three first place in the imperial examination, respectively, and the provincial yuan (does not is a department of Shangshu province, does not also call? Save the test? ) and Dian Yuan.
Can the show win? Three yuan? It's too difficult. Even if you are really gifted, luck is indispensable. The most famous in the Northern Song Dynasty? Three yuan? It's Wang Zeng, whose "Don't teach in class" and "Mixed Fu with Things" written by Jinshi of the Ministry of Rites are both typical answers and have been read for a long time. Wang Zeng, from an official to a prime minister, is only a dozen in China's imperial examination history? Three yuan? The best.
For a long time in the early Jin Dynasty, the imperial examination was divided into four levels: township, prefecture, province and temple. Three years later, I miraculously founded a company? Four dollars? Meng Zongxian. Jin Shizong was very happy to know that he had won the first prize. From seven products? This time, the emperor made an exception and awarded Meng Zongxian? From six products? Officials. However, Meng Zongci died soon after, and he didn't see any achievements. He just left one in the history of imperial examinations. Four dollars? Known to future generations.
According to statistics, Lianzhong? Three yuan? Only 17 people have won this honor in history.
Suzhou champion in Ming and Qing Dynasties: 34 people
According to statistics, from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties 1300 years, there were about 788 imperial examinations, and there were 67 1 person with names. In the long river of history, the number one scholar is rare. Can so few champions appear? The nest of champions? Wonder.
During the reign of Xiaozong Daoism in the Southern Song Dynasty, Yongtai County, Fujian Province indirectly produced three champions, Xiao, Xiao and Xiao. Later generations were built in the county seat? Sanyuan temple? Think of it as a memorial and make a poem:? No more than a hundred miles apart, won the championship three times in seven years. ?
? The nest of champions? The most prominent is Suzhou. There were 204 champions in Ming and Qing Dynasties and 34 in Suzhou. Among them, there were 1 14 top scholars in Qing Dynasty, 27 in Suzhou, 8 in Shaoxing, 6 in Hangzhou and 5 in Qufu, Shandong, which actually accounted for more than 0.40% of the total number of top scholars in China. And Suzhou is worthy of the name? The nest of champions? .
What is even more amazing is that the father and son brother Weng Xu boarded the Longmen together, which can be described as an affair. What else does the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty have? Tea house legacy? Therefore, father and son are more top scholars, about seven or eight times. This phenomenon appeared more than once in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Last champion: Liu Chunlin.
In the 30th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1904), palace examination was held, and Liu Chunlin was the last scholar in China history. Liu Chunlin (1872- 1944) was born in Suning, Hebei. It is said that the original draft champion was Zhu Ruzhen from Guangdong. Because there is a precious word in the name, Cixi hates the concubine of Emperor Guangxu most, so Cixi crossed out Zhu Ruzhen and replaced it with the fifth Liu Chunlin. Because it coincides with the drought, I am most looking forward to rain.
Soon, Liu Chunlin, the top scholar, was sent to Japan to study. After the Revolution of 1911, he once lived in seclusion and did not participate in political affairs. ? September 18? After the incident, fake? Manchukuo? Prime Minister Zheng sent someone to invite him as Minister of Education in the name of Puyi, saying? You are not the king in the past, and I am not the minister in the past? , flatly refused. After the Japanese invaders invaded Beiping, Wang, the chairman of the North China Government Affairs Committee of the traitor organization, wooed him as the mayor of Beiping as a fellow scholar, and was also denounced. 1944 Liu Chunlin died of a heart attack at the age of 73.
The only female champion: Fu Shanxiang.
There is a play called Female Ma Xu, which tells the story of Feng Suzhen disguised as a man and was recruited as Ma Xu. There is indeed a female champion in real history who appeared in Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom settled in Nanjing in 1853, it began the imperial examination, and admitted several hundred scholars successively, including seven China Wushu champions. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also set up a special women's department, and Fu Shanxiang, the top female scholar, was admitted. Fu Shanxiang, only 19 years old, won the championship in one fell swoop and caused a sensation in Tianjing. Fu Shanxiang first worked as a clerk in East Wang Fu, that is, as a secretary. Later, he was promoted to the left prime minister in front of the temple.