A Study on the Appointment of Shi Brown,a Top Scholar in the Later Jin Dynasty
In the late Jin Dynasty,Shi Brown,the number one scholar,had mostly served in Hanlin script.His official position was conferred by Chengde Lang who was in the seventh grade of the imperial examination four-teen years ago.Fourteen years later,he was demoted to Chengwu Lang,who was in the seventh grade of the impe-rial examination.During the Ming Dynasty,he was appointed as Chengzhi Lang,who was in the seventh grade of the imperial examination and was demoted to Rulin Lang,who was in the seventh grade of the imperial examina-tion.The initial official qualifications of the lowest ranking scholar in the late Jin Dynasty were higher than those of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Late Jin periodZhuangyuan Shi TanShoufeng Hanlin script