enlist talents through the old civil service examination system

enlist talents through the old civil service examination system

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is k ā IK ē Q ǔ sh ì, which means to hold the imperial examination in order to select excellent scholars. It's from chapter 34 of heroes and heroines.

The origin of Idioms

What a great ceremony you just want the imperial court to seek for the country. (Chapter 34 of biography of children heroes by Wen Kang in Qing Dynasty)

Idiom usage

As predicate, object and attribute, it is used to select talents by imperial examination. In the 15th year of Zhengyuan period, the imperial court passed down the Yellow list, expecting all the Jinshi to go to the imperial palace for examination in March