科举制度对中国传统礼俗的影响及启示

科举制度作为古代一项重要的选官制度，不仅对帝制中国隋唐以后的政治制度、士习民风、文化教育产生了广泛影响，而且还对在人们社会生活中发挥着极其重要功能的社会礼俗产生了深刻影响。其影响体现在：礼俗内容纳入科考范围，使得社会礼俗得到广泛宣传与普及；遵循能力本位，促使礼制下移；造就数目庞大的士绅阶层，担当传统礼俗的实践者与传播者；衍生出了众多富有科举色彩的传统礼俗。

Influence and Enlightenment of Imperial Examination System to Social Decorum and Customs

The imperial examination system, as an important system of selecting the government officials, not only had extensive influences on the political system, gentleman customs and common social practice, cultural education after the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but also profoundly impacted social decorum and customs that plays very important roles in people's social life. Its influences are reflected in the following aspects: custom contents were absorbed into the proposition scope of the imperial examination, bringing the extensive publicity and popularization of the social etiquette and the customs;the imperial examination system persisted in the tenet of ability , prompting the etiquette to move down; the imperial examination system results in a vast number of the rural elite class, who assumed the practicers and propagandists of the traditional etiquette and customs;the imperial examination system produced many traditional etiquette and customs rich in imperial examination color.