现在的中尉,是军官的低级军衔,高于少尉而低于上尉。古代的中尉,最初却是文职高官,不是武官,后来成了武官,其地位也远比现在的中尉高。《周礼》所制定的官制中还没有中尉这个官职,就现有文献看,中尉之职最初出现的时 The lieutenant, now, is a lower rank military officer than a second lieutenant but below a captain. The ancient lieutenant, originally a civil servant, was not a military officer, and later became a military officer, whose status is far higher than the present lieutenant. There is no official lieutenant in the official system set forth by Zhou Li. For the existing literature, when the first lieutenancy occurred