WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After the Tang dynasty, they were selected based on a series of exams designed to test their knowledge, writing skills, and Confucian education. If they passed, they would become a scholar-official.

Detailed explanation-2: -2019. Shiren (scholars or scholar officials) is the collective term of the ancient Chinese intellectuals, and is also an elite social group unique to ancient China. They learned and spread knowledge; they participated in politics; they carried on and carried forward Chinese traditional culture.

Detailed explanation-3: —A scholar official is an educated member of the government. b. Why would people want to become scholar officials?–People would want to become scholar officials because if they did, they would get respected and reduced penalties for breaking the law.

Detailed explanation-4: -In a society in which most people were illiterate, scholar-officials stood out by virtue of their reading and writing skills.

Detailed explanation-5: -The imperial examinations were a civil service examination system to select scholar-officials for the state bureaucracy in imperial China. Although there were imperial exams as early as the Han dynasty, the system became the major path to office only in the mid-Tang dynasty, and remained so until its abolition in 1905.