The exam confirmed officials who served in the imperial court were learn and intellectual.
Explanation:
The civil service exam in Imperial China was a system of testing candidates (only Men) who desired to join the Imperial Court to serve the administration. The process remains hard, which selected studious candidates as bureaucrats in the Chinese government. During the Tang Dynasty, Empress Wu Zetian regularly relied on the imperial examination system for recruiting officials.
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