중국 전통서사 속 科擧로 보는 사회적 보편성과 殘影

Abstract

In the Ancient Chinese society, the State Examination System was a critical factor that determines individual's honor and disgrace and ups and downs of life. In traditional community where Confucian politics, humanities, status order worked as a dominating ideology, it is true that the examination system was an employment system that had a near perfect form that has not been seen in anywhere in the world. However, the desirable means of it faded and it created a special class by marriages between higher classes as it became formidable meaning of eminity in family, kin, hometown and clans rather than individual itself. Eventually, it is abolished to the end that even the most educated people call theirselves ‘the most useless group’. Examination in ancient China was an ideology that is maintained for over a century. It is shown in many different aspects in novels and plays and worked as a key factor that winds and unwinds the plot. It is proved by many history that it is a very true and possible faces that the system can have. Studying, competitions and classes formed by the system plays a important role in the people living more than a thousand years later in confician culture apart from right or wrong. The universal value it has did not vanish in today’s society but prospers in perverted forms such as ‘spoon theory’.