宋代的学校与仙游科举盛况

Schools and Grand Occasion of Xianyou's Imperial Examination in the Song Dynasty

唐及五代时期的仙游县仅为一偏远地区之小县,几无名人可考。及至两宋,仙游县文人辈出,屡有进士,其进士科可谓鼎盛。究其原因,学校建设与学校教育功不可没。宋代仙游有官学1所、私学21所,拥有八闽地区最高的学校密度和人均学校数量,让当地读书人以至家贫之子有更多读书受教的机会,从而使更多人投身于科举之中,最终使仙游县科第蝉联,甲于他邑。

Xianyou County was only a small county in a remote area in the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties with few celebrities. Up to the Song Dynasties,there appeared men of letters from time to time,and there were often successful candidates in the highest imperial examinations,which was a period of great prosperity for Xianyou County. The reason might be that school construction and education had contributed a great deal to the local success in the imperial examinations. In the Song Dynasty Xianyou had one official school,21 private schools with the largest density and the number of schools per capita in Fujian,which allowed the local intellectuals and even the children in poor families to have more opportunities to read and be educated so that more people took part in the imperial examinations. Hence Xianyou County was much more prosperous than other counties in the Song Dynasty as far as imperial examination was concerned.