The imperial examination system, which lasted for thousands of years, was abolished in the late Qing Dynasty. The fundamental reason was that the same imperial examination system at that time did not meet the standards of the imperial court in selecting and employing people, and it had fallen behind the world trend and could not meet the new requirements of the new era.

/kloc-At the end of 0/9th century, after several defeats and a lot of reparations, the Qing government had realized its decadence and loneliness to some extent. The Qing government also launched a series of self-help movements such as Westernization Movement. With the development of Westernization Movement and the further deepening of western learning, the Qing government itself realized the disadvantages of the imperial examination system.

Therefore, 1888, the Qing government reformed the imperial examination system, set up mathematics subjects, brought natural science into the imperial examination for the first time, and selected corresponding talents. 1889, the Qing government set up a special department of economics to select talents who can help the world when needed. At that time, Kang Youwei and others, as innovators, advocated changing stereotyped writing into scholars in order to strategize, thus completely changing the rigid situation of the imperial examination system. However, this move was too radical and was blocked by conservatives and some scholars, and was soon abolished by Empress Dowager Cixi.

190 1 year, the Qing government realized that it was impossible to carry out more thorough political reform, so the Qing government began to implement the "New Deal in the Late Qing Dynasty". Later, under the strong demand of various places, the Qing government promulgated the "Regulations on Playing Learning", which stipulated that: eight shares should be changed. But at this time, the imperial examination system has not been abolished. After studying for more than ten years, due to various reasons, the imperial examination system is still emphasized and the strategy is ignored.

In order to solve this problem, at the suggestion of Zhang Zhidong and others, the Qing government began to vigorously promote new schools, focusing on teaching western learning, and integrating teaching, selecting and using talents through new schools.

Under this background, the Qing government announced that the imperial examination would be completely stopped from 1906, the education department of the Qing government issued new textbooks, and corresponding new schools should be established at all levels. At this point, the imperial examination system, which lasted for more than 1000 years, was abolished.

Any kind of electoral system was restricted by the social system at that time, and so was the imperial examination. Because the purpose of the imperial examination system is to select officials rather than scholars and other professionals, this determines its examination content; At the same time, due to the limitation of the development level of productive forces, it is difficult to ask for adding subjects such as mathematics, physics, agronomy and even business administration to the imperial examination. The reason why the imperial examination was abolished in the late Qing Dynasty was not the drawback of the imperial examination itself, but the change of the social system.

Of course, the imperial examination system used pragmatism to guide scholars to treat cultural heritage out of context, and studied and even recited eight-part essays to gain fame and fortune, which really had a very bad influence on the progress of ideological culture and scientific undertakings.