Can you still be an official in the Tang Dynasty? What were the ways to be an official in the Tang Dynasty?

Candidates who failed in the Tang dynasty still have the opportunity to be an official. There were three ways to be an official in the Tang Dynasty: imperial examination and becoming an official.

The imperial examination system in Sui and Tang Dynasties is a great pioneering work. Its appearance has completely opened the channel for the bottom of society to flow to the top. The imperial examination system has become a reality in Tian Shelang, and countless poor students have made a class leap through their own efforts.

In the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination system was gradually improved, and the imperial court selected talents through regular imperial examinations. In order to be an official, taking the imperial examination is the most mainstream choice. However, the admission rate of the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty was quite low. Nationwide, only about 100 people can be admitted every year. Most candidates can't get fame as they wish, and many people have worked hard all their lives without results. There are many talents among these losers, and they have other ways to be officials.

Menyin became an official.

For the children of the poor, this road is impassable, but if they are the children of the gentry, they will have more ways to enter the official position. In the Tang Dynasty, royalty and officials of the DPRK and China all had the privilege of being in a noble family, and their children could enjoy different degrees of preferential treatment. The descendants of most middle and senior officials can become officials even if they fail in the imperial examination.

Join the workforce

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, our local officials became the chief executive, and at this time it was necessary to recruit our officials to work for them. This is another opportunity for candidates who failed in the exam. They can join the shogunate of our time and help with all kinds of errands. They can all serve as marching horses, judges, secretaries in charge and staff officers, which is equivalent to another form of officials.

The road to being an official in the Tang Dynasty was far more than the imperial examination. The reasons can be subdivided into two points: first, the admission rate of the imperial examination is too low, resulting in thousands of official vacancies every year, and the number of students admitted is only one tenth. A large number of people who want to be famous need other ways to realize their ambitions.

Secondly, the imperial examination was not fair to the greatest extent, and the aristocratic privilege was still great. A large number of aristocratic children can directly enter the official career because of their special status.