Loss of Function and System Alienation:Motivation and Inspiration of Imperial Examinations for Choosing Military Officers System Change

Through the main methods of logical analysis and the literature,this paper studyies the social motivations of the change of the imperial examination for choosing military officers.The author thinks that the developing process of the imperial military examination system from the creation in Tang dynasty,to Song dynasty and Ming dynasty,until the abolishment in Qing dynasty,was in the charge of civil administration.As part of the imperial examination system,the imperial military examination system had been unable to get out of mental labors govern while manual labors are governed.Three social factors causeed the the creation and the abolishment of the imperial military examination system:1) Ruling class maintaining the regime and the needs of the tanlents on the arts and military in wars caused the the birth and the continuation of the imperial military examination system.2)The contradiction between militarism and non-militarism among the ruling class had curbed the spreading of the martial spirit to a certain extent.The loss of function of arts in defending the country and maintaining political stability was the basic causes of the extinction of the imperial military examination system.