科举文学与“科举学”

从考试内容和文体来看，科举具有文学考试性质。科场试文与当时的文学密切相关，各种文学流派的升沉消长及文风变易皆与科举有着千丝万缕的联系。从“科举学”的视角研究文学，可以大大拓宽古代文学研究的深度与厚度，而科举文学研究成果日益丰富，又从另一个方面推动“科举学”走向繁荣。

Imperial Civil Examination Literature and the Study of Imperial Civil Examination

Imperial Civil Examination can be considered as a literature examination based on its examinational contents and styles. Since the testing articles of Imperial Civil Examination was closely related with literature at that time, the development and changes of all kinds of genre of literature thus had countless ties with Imperial Civil Examination. On one hand, studying literature from the Study of Imperial Civil Examination is an extensive field, which can increase the depth and thickness of Chinese ancient literature research. On the other hand, the increasingly abundant research fruits on Imperial Civil Examination literature can also impel the study of Imperial Civil Examination move towards prosperity.