1. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the system of selecting officials in the imperial examination was restored, and the imperial examination once again became the focus of intellectual life at that time. However, due to the differences in social and cultural development levels in different regions, there has been a long-term monopoly of enrollment quotas in the culturally developed Jiangnan region, thus forming a contradiction between the North and the South, which is not conducive to national stability.

2. During the reign of Ming Taizu, the North-South List Event was the cause of the North-South List, which lasted for 30 years. That was the year of the exam. Liu Sanwu, the examiner, took 52 Jinshi for nothing. Zhu Yuanzhang was angry that they were biased, so he read the papers himself and decided that 6 1 Jinshi were all northern Jinshi. History is called the dispute between the North and South lists, and it is also called the dispute between the spring and summer lists.

3. Although Ming Taizu solved this incident with an iron fist at that time, contradictions still existed and no suitable solution was found.

4. During the Xuande period, the middle volume was separated from the south volume, and it was stipulated that the south volume was 55, the north volume was 35, and the middle volume was 10. Although the North-South scroll system was abolished once in Jingtai, it was strongly opposed because it touched the interests of too many people, and Jingtai resumed it in five years.

There are some differences between the North-South division in the Northern Song Dynasty and the North-South division in the Ming Dynasty.

Here are their differences:

1, time: North Song Dynasty (960-1279) and Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

2. Content: The North-South Volume Division in the Northern Song Dynasty is a systematic arrangement of books of sages. Books in the south and books in the north are compiled into two catalogues respectively, which are put in the catalogue books respectively, so as to facilitate the delivery and management of related books. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to formulate a new imperial examination system, the national household registration was divided into two parts, the north and the south, in order to select outstanding talents.

To sum up, there are obvious differences in time and content between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.