Research on Educational Sociology Issues

Author: Yang Xuewei
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: According to records in Chinese and foreign classics, conscious and organized examination activities emerged around the time when humans transitioned from the barbaric era to ancient civilized society. Their historical origins can be traced back to the selection of tribal leaders and the verification of tribal member qualifications in the late primitive society. Even if the first "countermeasure" examination conducted by Emperor Wen of Han in the 15th year of his reign (165 BC) is considered the beginning of the state's official selection examinations, it has already had a history of nearly 2,200 years. Even if the establishment of the imperial examination system, hailed as the "fifth great invention of China," is taken as the starting point, it has been nearly 1,400 years since then. Its historical trajectory of evolution and development runs through the entire process of ancient, modern, and contemporary civilized development of human society, truly long-standing and historically rich. As for its causes, they ultimately stem from the objective needs of human social development. Its emergence and development are constrained by the laws of social development, as well as by the laws of human development. It serves both social production and social life. It is both a process of development and a process of cognition, and it has been continuously advancing forward along the interaction between social development and the development of human cognitive levels.