唐朝越到中后期,越看重进士出身的官员。从朝廷到民间都认可了科举制的“正途”地位。当然,科举制的鼎盛时期要到宋朝才会到来,但是在唐朝,这个趋势就已经不可逆转。科举制对中国的影响过于复杂,早已溢出选拔官员这一层而。它带来的利弊得失很难衡量,而且利弊标准也往往依赖于评判者的价值偏好。我们唯一能够确定的是,在唐朝发生了这样一场巨大变革,将中国政治文化史齐腰而斩,分割为面目迥异的两段。 The more the Tang Dynasty to the late, the more emphasis on jinshi officials. From the court to the private sector all recognized the “right way” status of the imperial examination system. Of course, the heyday of the imperial examination system will not come until the Song Dynasty, but in the Tang Dynasty this trend was irreversible. The impact of the imperial examination system on China is too complicated and has long overflowed on the level of selecting officials. The pros and cons brought by it are hard to measure, and the pros and cons often depend on the value preferences of the judges. The only thing we can be sure of is that such a huge revolution took place in the Tang Dynasty, cutting off the history of Chinese politics and culture into two very different sections.