The winner comes first, and Tian Jie listens to the winner. Standing at the top of the imperial examination pyramid, the champion stands out and is favored. The top middle school scholar is called Dakui Tianxia, which is the highest honor for candidates. From children's exams to court exams, the number one scholar needs to be selected at all levels. In the fierce competition, the duet takes the lead. He who laughs last is a good scholar in a million. So it's hard to win the first prize. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, the champion should not only have profound knowledge, but also need a high social status.
Zhu Mao Zhu Yuanzhang is plain-looking, but he is determined to make this champion the image spokesman of the empire. In order to live up to the face of the dynasty, Yan value is extremely important. This set an example for four years as early as Hongwu's first court exam. Guo was supposed to be the number one scholar, but he was demoted to the number one scholar because of his ugly appearance. The handsome Wu Zongbo was chosen as the top scholar. This really shocked historians and candidates. The number one scholar reached the top because of his talent. After all, the court exam is not a beauty contest. Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been many scholars who are not handsome or even disabled, and there is no precedent for judging people by their appearances. For example, Li Feng, the champion of Tang Daizong Dali Association 12, looks like Shan Ye. Although he looks rustic, he can win the first prize. Fang Mengkui, the champion of Chu Ci in Song Dynasty, was lame in his right foot and blind in his left eye. Chen Zuren, the champion in the second year of Yuan Dynasty, is short, blind and ugly. However, Zhao Kuangyin showed the same courage as abolishing the stereotyped writing system of prime ministers, and was determined to let these top scholars in Shuai Shuai take to the streets and live up to the face of the Ming Dynasty and the eyes of the audience.
The example of Zhao Kuangyin made many Ming emperors measure the value of the top scholar for the first time. As a result of this counterattack, many handsome guys have become top scholars. To give a few examples: In his second year in Wen Jian, Hu Guang replaced Wang Gen, who was originally nominated as the No.1 scholar, with extraordinary handsomeness. In the first year of orthodoxy, I joked that I had won the first prize by mistake. As an examiner and a college student, Yang Shiqi hopes to confirm the face of the world in advance so as to choose the best candidate. Because Zhou Zhou's pronunciation is similar to Zhou Yu's, their villagers mistakenly thought that he was asking Zhou Yu, so they replied that he was white and tall. Yang Shiqi then put forward the idea of being the best in the world and presented it to the emperor himself. On the day of spreading rumors, everyone found that the world looked ugly, but they did it, so public opinion was disappointed. Unfortunately, people don't think so. Don't choose handsome guys. At the beginning of the fourth year of Orthodoxy, Zhang He was selected as the top scholar in palace examination, but Ming Yingzong learned his lesson three years ago and no longer trusted the examiner's judgment. However, he sent a personal eunuch to meet Zhang He's residence, and found that his eyes were long and dark, so he was Wu Ying, the champion of Hongzhi in the second year, and Feng, a talented Zhejiang scholar, was chosen as the champion because of his extraordinary strategy. However, he looks lame and pathetic. When Xiaozong learned about this, he regretted winning the second place, and named the Cantonese who was originally ranked fourth, but had a big white head and a dignified expression as the No.1 scholar. Zhu Guozhen, a scholar with a history of 17 thousand years, later became the first assistant minister. He said: Where is Ding's family? We can make a decision before conducting a secret investigation on China. Scholarships can be measured by exams, and examiners are responsible. The emperor's secret visit is mainly superficial, caring about the image spokesperson, which is a blow.
Top-down top scholars in Ming Dynasty tend to recruit talents and attach importance to appearance, which makes a large number of handsome top scholars appear in popular novels that people like to see, even with distinctive female characteristics, such as Di's Passionate and Fast History. Even the yellow number 1