RELIGIONS
CONFUCIANISM
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students had to know Buddhism
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Students had to be from noble families
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students had to make inventions
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students had to pass a difficult Confucian test
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Detailed explanation-1: -Scholar-officials were the elite class of imperial China. They were highly educated, especially in literature and the arts, including calligraphy and Confucian texts. They dominated the government administration and local life of China until the early 20th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -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: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.