刘筠“以策论升降天下士”发覆

On Liu Yun's 'Way of Selecting the Scholars by Ce and Lun'

"以策论升降天下士,自筠始"实际出现在刘筠第二、第三次权知贡举期间,道出了他对于宋代省试的发展的作用及意义。这一做法既顺应了宋真宗朝以来的省试"兼考策论"的改革呼声,又导源了宋仁宗时庆历贡举改革中的先策论、后诗赋的意见。刘筠以文坛主盟身份权知贡举,亦左右了当时崇尚骈俪的试论文风。

Liu Yun created the way of selecting the scholars by ce and lun actually during his second and third examiners. It played an important role and displayed significance for the development of the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty. His creation not only conformed to the voice of the imperial examination reform since the emperor Song Zhenzong,but proposed the idea that ce and lun were more important than poem and fu during that period. As the literary leader and the examiner,Liu Yun influenced the pairing style of Lun’ s writing.