The Sui Dynasty began to "suppress weapons and write articles" and drastically reduced military equipment. The focus of national education shifted from learning martial arts to writing articles, and the imperial examination began to become the mainstream. After the martial arts division, martial arts were not tested, and literati students had no time to study military affairs in order to seek fame, so military training was gradually abandoned.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Tang Dynasty established the national policy of emphasizing military force in wartime and emphasizing literature in peacetime. However, the method of selecting scholars in the Tang Dynasty was still biased towards the imperial examination, and schools became an accessory of the imperial examination, and military training was abolished.
"Military training" was gradually abandoned from Qin Dynasty to Tang and Song Dynasties;
During the Qin and Han Dynasties, military training in schools began to decline. Confucianism is gradually regarded as orthodoxy, and the function of military training is weakened into a ritual procedure.
In fact, Qin still attached great importance to military training before establishing a unified regime. However, after the reunification of the political power, in addition to strengthening the border defense, the opportunity to use troops has become very few. In order to prevent civilians from rebelling, they ordered the removal of battlements in various vassal States and the collection of weapons from all over the country. Even ordinary people's kitchen knives are shared by several families.
Although military training in schools in Qin and Han dynasties was somewhat suppressed, it was not abolished because there was military training in local school education. When Wang Mang was in power in the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the Spring and Autumn Period every year, the scholar Liu Kun led more than 500 disciples to practice martial arts, which made Wang Mang suspect that he was up to no good and locked him and his family up. It can be seen that private schools mainly teach classics, but also include military training such as shooting and defense.