科举考试始于隋朝大业元年(605年),已经历了一千多年,其间关于考试的趣闻也不少。唐朝名人温庭筠出生在山西,他的祖辈是闻名于唐朝政坛和文坛的双料牛人——温彦博,在政坛一直混到了宰相,在文坛则成了一代著名词人。 Imperial examinations began in the first year of great cause of the Sui Dynasty (605 years), has gone through a thousand years, during which anecdotes about the examinations are also many. Wen Tingyun, a famous Tang dynasty, was born in Shanxi. His ancestors, Wen Yanbo, a double-breed man who is famous for political and literary circles in the Tang Dynasty, has been mixed with the prime minister in politics and became a famous poet in the literary world.