人们都知道,中国的科举制度始于隋朝,但每科分乡试、会试、殿试三级进行,却是定于明代。洪武三年(1370)五月,明太祖诏告天下,从当年开始,开科取士。鉴于天下初定,官员缺乏,各省连试三年,中式举人均免会试,赴京听选,并宣称:“中外文臣皆由科举而进,非科举者毋得官。”(《明太祖实录》卷52)话虽有些绝对,但 People all know that the system of Chinese imperial examination started in the Sui Dynasty, but each branch sub-test, will try, the test three levels, but it is scheduled for the Ming Dynasty. Hongwu three years (1370) in May, the Ming Taizu Chao told the world, from the beginning of the year, open subjects to take subjects. In view of the beginning of the world, lack of officials, the provinces even test for three years, the Chinese will be exempted from the test, go to Beijing to elect, and declared: “Both Chinese and foreign prosecutors by the imperial examination, non- Ming Taizu Record ”Volume 52) Although some absolute, but