初盛唐是否存在守选制说

陈铁民、李亮伟二先生在《关于守选制与唐诗人登第后的释褐时间》一文(以下简称《释褐》)中认为,唐代进士及第必守选三年才能释褐授官大抵符合中、晚唐的情况,却并不符合初、盛唐的实际。本文作者翻检了有关资料,认为初、盛唐时及第举子的守选制是存在的,只是初唐时进士及第先授散当番,然后再定冬集,而盛唐时却直接定冬集。初唐进士及第守选三年可推测得出,至盛唐时已明确规定,且渐成定制。

On the Civil Examination System and the Office Promotion of Early Tang Dynasty

The present paper aims to clarify the relationship between the civil examination system and the office promotion of the early phase of the Tang Dynasty, inspired by the erroneous conclusions made by Cheng Tieming and Li Liangwei in their paper On Delayed Promotion. After consulting many historical documents, the present author holds that the delayed promotion did exist even in the early Tang although there were some procedural differences between the early and the late Tang Dynasty.