The Culture Of The Imperial Examination System And XiKun System At The Initial Stage Of Northern Song Dynasty

XiKun system is the three beginning major school, one of Song, which is a bridge to connect the literature of Tang and Song Dynasty. Studying XiKun system can make us know the reason and course of our national ancient civilization turn from opening to inwards nature, knowing unique cultural intension that is poem Song. Nowdays, the scholars pay much attention to the researches to XiKun system, they have made many achievements, but the researches work only focus on the inner of literature. Ouyang xiu says "one who is good at XiKun system get imperial exam and earns honour of that time."It is easy to see that the close relations between XiKun system and imperial examinations is obvious at that time. Thesis to use culture history and pyilosophy, to investigat the social economy, political ideology and influence brought toward imperial examination system of culture background at that time, in the view of imperial examinations system and studying relation between XiKun system and imperial examination system in order to reveral XiKun system's producing, rising and declining. The thesis is divided into three chapters: Chapter one is to study the guidelines through Poem and Fu examination to select officials and study the reasons of its producing and the influence to schoolars of the imperial examination,to reveal the necessarity of XiKun system's producing and rising,and the interrelations of the imperial examination's contents. It is at initial stage of Northern Song Dynasty, and announce XiKun system produce external characteristic and the imperial examination's writing style at that time. Chapter two, draw support from the continuity and development of imperial examination system correctly, Pavilion system of the hall, toexplain the influence of the imperial examination's to scholars'minds in their composing and analyze the forming of XiKun system's characteristic which is an inevitable result of the social development of economic and culture at that time.XiKun and it's the result of the poets of XiKun system who require themselves consciously, too. Chapter three, the rising thinking of "put the knowledge to practice", whose influence to XiKun system and the imperial examination.