江南贡院的保存与演变

Preservation and Evolution of Examination Hall in Nanjing

清代苏皖分闱动议的失败,不仅使江南贡院的规模达到顶峰,也成就了世界专用考场之最,而且留下了一个难得的两省合闱的样本,为我们了解这种合闱体制提供了珍贵的素材。民国时期关于各直省处置和保存贡院的记载和争论,以江南贡院为最多,为今人了解后科举时代贡院的消亡和保存留下了最详实的样本。各省对贡院的保存,以南京和江苏省的官员和民众最为用心。江南贡院成为各直省贡院记载最详细的贡院,江南贡院明远楼今天已成为科举文化的代表性符号。

The failure of the Jiangsu-Anhui＇s partition motion of examination hall in the Qing Dynasty not only made the scale of Examination Hall in Nanjing reach its peak,but also made it become the most specialized examination hall in the world. It also left a rare sample of the two provinces,which provided us with precious materials to understand the system of combination of the examination hall. During the period of the Republic of China,there were many records and debates about the disposal and preservation of examination hall in different provinces. Examination Hall in Nanjing was the most controversial one. It left the most detailed sample for people to understand the disappearance and preservation of examination hall in the post-imperial examination era. The officials and local people in Nanjing and Jiangsu Province paid much more attention to the preservation of Examination Hall in Nanjing than people in other provinces. Among the records of examination hall in different provinces,the records of Examination Hall in Nanjing were more detailed and plentiful.Mingyuan Building of Examination Hall in Nanjing has become a representative symbol of imperial examination culture.