No.1 scholar means the first place in palace examination. In the imperial examination, the person who ranks first is called Yuan, the provincial examination is called Xieyuan, and the examination is called Huiyuan. It is also a metaphor for people who perform well in the industry.

in the Tang dynasty, all candidates who are invited to Beijing should submit their papers. Because the person who comes first is called the leader, it is called the champion. Since the implementation of the imperial examination system in the Sui Dynasty, it has experienced the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and it lasted nearly 13 years until it was abolished in Guangxu 31 (195).

In the era of "learning to be excellent is to be an official", Confucian scholars and scholars in feudal society took the examination of the top scholar as the only way to get into their official career. "Ten years of cold window, no one asked, and became famous in one fell swoop." "The book has its own Yan Ruyu, and the book has its own golden house?" I don't know how many students have been inspired by these famous sayings.

The history of the number one scholar is as follows:

The number one scholar is similar to the number one in today's gaopu exam. Today, there are about 7 top scholars who have left their names in the historical books. They all became famous all over the world after studying hard, and became the best in scientific research at that time. Because literature and philosophy are the criteria for selecting talents in all dynasties, although there are many politicians and historians among these top scholars, there are still many writers.

Among them, He Zhizhang, Wang Wei and Liu Gongquan in the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xiaoxiang and Wen Tianxiang in the Song Dynasty, Hu Guang and Yang Shen in the Ming Dynasty, Weng Tong and Zhang Jian in the Qing Dynasty, etc. The number one scholar in the middle school is called "the greatest achievement in the world", which is the highest honor for scholars. However, because of personal factors or the constraints of the environment at that time, most of the number one scholars were unable to reach out and make a difference in their lives, and eventually they were lost in the torrent of history.