In ancient times, it was very important to gain fame. What about the treatment of scholar and juren?

Since the implementation of the imperial examination in Sui Dynasty, in more than 300 years/kloc-0, countless scholars became emperor's students for carp and crossing Longmen, and were crushed to death. However, there are so many people admitted to Jinshi. Like the Ming and Qing dynasties, the number of people admitted each time was only between two and three hundred. What if I can't pass the exam? I can only continue to be a juror, and I will go to the examination room in three years. Literati lower than Juren are even more bitter. If you want to take the exam, you have to take it first. In fact, the scholar is not so easy to test. Jin Fan spent half his life in The Scholars, and in his fifties, he was still white. If he hadn't studied Zhou Jin and seen his pity and sympathy, he wouldn't even expect a scholar. However, it does not mean that you can sit back and relax after being admitted to a scholar. Compared with Juren and Jinshi, the treatment and status of ancient literati are far from that of the old nose. Take the Ming and Qing dynasties with complete imperial examinations as an example, scholars can avoid corvee and do not have to work for the court for free; In the northern region, the official rent of several acres of land can be exempted, and even the height of the house can be three inches higher than that of ordinary family members.

In the hierarchical feudal society, once you have the reputation of a scholar, you will not worship the official; A scholar who commits a crime can get away with it, but his reputation must be erased. In terms of dressing, scholars can wear collared robes, square towels and boots. Scholars in the Ming Dynasty could even go out to study with swords without restriction. If you are an ordinary person, you must be guided by the government when you go out. In terms of material welfare, Ming scholars can even receive one or two pieces of silver, one liter of rice and occasionally fish, oil and salt from the government every month. So a scholar will not starve to death even if he doesn't do any work, but he will be poor if he sits on the mountain, so he is also called a poor scholar. How poor can a poor scholar be? If the imperial examination is unsuccessful, the literati can only find another way, generally engaged in teaching, counselor, medical practice, litigation, geomantic omen, and business in the sea. Pu Songling, a famous novelist in Qing Dynasty, was a scholar when he was young.

Unexpectedly, this became the peak of his imperial examination. After decades, I have been struggling for the exam and have to be a teacher for the children of official families. This teacher's career is 70 years old. So I used to be just a scholar. For a scholar, it is really too high and too low, unlike a juren who can be an official. If you want to go further, you must continue to take the exam. According to the Ming Dynasty's notebook novel Cloud Miscellaneous Knowledge, there was a scholar named Wu Pingpo who had three wishes in his life: to paint in Wuhu, to buy a house in Yang Qian and to buy a prostitute as a concubine. In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, he was admitted to the Jinshi examination, and his three wishes were successfully realized. This scholar has three wishes and looks very vulgar. However, in ancient times, "everything is not as good as reading" and "books have a golden house and charming rooms, and books have Yan Ruyu", which is undoubtedly very realistic.