The meaning of lot is explained by lot.

1, which means drawing lots. Cut bamboo as a sign with symbols or words on it, and extract one or more from it to determine the order or good or bad luck. At the end of Ming Dynasty, Sun Piyang was appointed as the official minister, and created the method of drawing lots to show the inevitable choice of civil servants. If you write down the area and name of the selected organ with a bamboo stick. It will be mixed in the test tube and picked up in the classroom, just like drawing lots. This system existed in the Qing Dynasty, but it was actually manipulated by officials.

2. "Drawing lots" and "drawing lots" are the originality of the civil service system in Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the official department first selected and dismissed officials by drawing lots. In the 22nd year of Wanli in Ming Shenzong (1594), Sun Piyang, a senior official of the official department, invented a lottery method to avoid the eunuchs asking for help. He wrote the area and name of the selected institution in advance with bamboo slips, mixed them in a bucket, and the candidates held a general election by themselves. In the Qing dynasty, this system was followed, and officials from other provinces were appointed in a decentralized manner, and the official department drew lots to distribute them to the provinces.