School of Political Science

Yangjun trial court was originally the imperial examination court of Ming Dynasty. After the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, it became the place where Yangzhou government ruled eight counties and cities to test scholars. In 1983, a house was demolished here, and a building of the spare time school for staff and workers was built. In the following ten years, the old examination institute successively worked in the general trade union, the Federation of literary and art circles, the Bureau of culture, the Communist Youth League Committee, the Labor Bureau, the women's Federation, the archives and other organizations. There is also a part of the building between the headgate and Sibu hall, which was demolished after liberation. The wood was used as the material of some buildings in Taishan park. In 1986, the ancient test institute became a county-level Taizhou Municipal Cultural relics protection unit.

School of Political Science

The school of learning and politics was originally the imperial court of Ming Dynasty. After the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, it became the place where Yangzhou governs eight counties and cities to test scholars.

Historical evolution

In 1983, a house was demolished here, and a building of the spare time school for staff and workers was built. In the following ten years, the old examination institute successively worked in the general trade union, the Federation of literary and art circles, the Bureau of culture, the Communist Youth League Committee, the Labor Bureau, the women's Federation, the archives and other organizations. There is also a part of the building between the headgate and Sibu hall, which was demolished after liberation. The wood was used as the material of some buildings in Taishan park. In 1986, the ancient test institute became a county-level Taizhou Municipal Cultural relics protection unit.

During the period of the enemy and puppet army, the trial court was occupied by the Japanese army, which served as the military police station in Xiangji in the south, and the auditorium was destroyed as a playground. During the period of the Republic of China, there were two tax police regiments in China to investigate salt tax evasion, one of which was located in Taizhou, which was then called Tai county. The headquarters of the tax police regiment of Tai county was stationed in the trial court, which was called Daying among the people. After the era of the Republic of China, the trial court was set up as the Education Association and persuasion School of Tai county By. We can see from the historical materials that after the abolition of the imperial examination in the thirtieth year of Guangxu, the school had been set up at the site of the Academy, and Zhu Mingqiu, a native of Zhengyi, had been rebuilt.

In the history of Yangjun college, the building structure is complete and the scale is magnificent. There are many buildings, such as the head gate, the instrument gate, the hall, the Sibu hall, the East Building, the West building, the upper room, the lower room, the test shed, the blessing temple and so on.

According to the pictures of the examination institute in Taizhou annals, there are dongyuanmen and xiyuanmen on both sides of the square in front of Toumen, and there are dongchugu Pavilion and xichugu Pavilion in the Yuanmen. Opposite to Toumen is dazhaobi, and a flagpole (wooden watch) is erected on the East and west sides of Zhaobi. Pass through the patio from the head door to the instrument door, and then pass the corridor between the test sheds on both sides to reach the lobby. After the hall is the rolling shed, the corridor is the Sibu hall, and then the upper and lower rooms, as well as the East and West buildings and wing rooms on both sides. The whole examination hall was a large wooden official building in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty.

After hundreds of years of wind and rain, the main buildings of the college are only the head gate and Sibu hall.

The front door is five rooms wide and two deep, and the method of distraction groove is adopted. The front eaves are heavy, the back eaves are heavy, and the main ridge is double arched. The single step beam has a bucket of three liters, and the cross intersects the lotus leaf pier. The double step beam has a bucket of six liters. Be careful that there are Qing style paintings on the beam. Sibu hall is also five rooms wide, but four rooms deep. Its front eaves are full of arches and its back eaves have no arches. It is divided into three parts. Under the golden truss of the hall, there is a huge blue gold plaque of "four churches" written by Cao xiuguang, the inspector of Qianlong's bingxu and Mengxia school. Under the ridge, there is an inscription of "the 17th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, Xinmao in March, Jidan Zhizhou was appointed to know Taizhou, and Zhang Zhaolu was rebuilt". The overall style of Sibu hall is majestic. The purlin is 9.75 meters high, the Pu Bai Fang is wider than the column forehead, the Fang is equipped with an inclined bucket arch, the maple arch is engraved with a dark eight immortals pattern, and the column is padded with a compound basin type stone foundation, which represents the highest level of Taizhou official architecture since the early Qing Dynasty.

Yangjun College

Yangjun Academy was an examination venue for the examination of young scholars in eight counties of Yangzhou Prefecture under the imperial examination system in Qing Dynasty. During the period from Kangxi to Guangxu, the examination institute was always presided over by the provincial government, so it is also known as the school administration examination institute.

Yangjun college is the first level examination place in the three-level examination of Jinshi, Juren and Xiucai in China's imperial examination system. It is also the historical witness of Taizhou as one of the important cultural centers in Jianghuai area in the past. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taizhou had a relatively stable society and a good reputation as a Taiping state. At one time, it was famous and talented. Taizhou has been attaching importance to culture and education since the Tang and Song dynasties. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the imperial court built the school of learning and politics in Taizhou, which was the examination center of eight counties in Yangzhou, including Jiangdu, Ganquan, Yizheng, Baoying, Gaoyou, Xinghua, Taizhou and Dongtai. It shows that Taizhou is the center of education and culture in Yangzhou. Taizhou Academy of education and politics has made important contributions to the prosperity of Taizhou culture and the selection of talents. It is the sacred place for scholars to become officials in the eyes of ancient Taizhou people.

In Sha Hei's "poetry on Banqiao", there is such a text: Zheng Banqiao walked into the Yangjun examination institute in Taizhou with his test bag, and became a scholar of Kangxi after he came out. There is also a poem with the title of Yangjun Academy in Hailing Zhuzhi CI

In the hope of getting old and worrying, I packed up my books and went to Taizhou.

Congratulations on Wenyuan's residence, Mr. Yu Huafu.

Looking back at Zheng Banqiao in those years, what a situation it was when they "packed up their books and went to Taizhou" to get into the examination shed and win fame. There is such a description in Hailing Zhuzhi CI

The eight Yi elites gathered in this state.

There were ten sounds of the crime, a few happy, a few sad.

Those who have been to the Gongyuan of Nanjing Confucius Temple must have an intuitive understanding of the examination shed. In "Taizhou places of interest", a paragraph about the test shed can also make people imagine a general: divide the house into several small rooms, each room allows one examinee to enter for the exam, there is only one table and one chair in the room, and there is a bamboo curtain hanging at the door, which is called the test shed.

The imperial examination in Qing Dynasty was held once every three years, usually in spring and in summer. In autumn, the college entrance examination will be held and presided over by Xuezheng. The Yangjun college opens in the autumn. At the beginning of the examination, Taizhou's population increases rapidly and the market is prosperous. There are thousands of examinees and examinees everywhere. Businessmen came from Nanjing, Shanghai and other places to set up stalls on both sides of "kaopeng Street" (from xiyuanmen to dalinqiao), selling pen, ink, paper and inkstone, various printed books, antique treasures, daily groceries, fruit cakes and so on. The hotels and restaurants nearby are also prosperous.

The repair and restoration project of Taizhou "Yangjun test institute" was approved by the Municipal Planning Commission a few days ago, and the preliminary design has been completed. After the completion and restoration of the "Yang county trial yard", it can be echoed with the Town God's Temple which is being renovated to form a new tourism cultural landscape.

The total investment of the restoration project is 10 million yuan, with a construction area of 3550 square meters. It mainly recovers the drum blowing Pavilion, instrument gate, examination number, lobby, upper room and other buildings, and tries to reproduce the original appearance of Yangjun college. At the same time, it displays the knowledge of imperial examination procedure and evolution through pictures and other exhibitions.

Relevant people pointed out that there are few existing official buildings of Kao Xiucai. Yangjun academy represents the highest level of architecture in Taizhou area in the early Qing Dynasty. It is the physical witness of China's imperial examination system and the historical witness that Taizhou was one of the important cultural centers in Jianghuai area. The renovation and restoration project of Taizhou University of science and politics was completed recently and officially opened to the public on August 1, 2008.

It is understood that the academy is the only one in the province with relatively complete preservation. Its cultural relic value can be compared with Nanjing Gongyuan. It is a historical witness that Taizhou was once an important cultural center in Jianghuai region.

The restored academy will be divided into six exhibition halls. Through the combination of physical objects, pictures and scenes, this paper introduces the imperial examination system, procedure, evolution, admission rate and social significance from six aspects: imperial examination culture, brief history, academy examination, imperial examination education, Taizhou celebrities and imperial examination anecdotes.

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