英文摘要
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This thesis is about the influence that eight legged essays had in the Ming and Qing dynasty. The purpose of this thesis is to arouse scholars' concern to eight-legged academic studies. By virtue of lacking studies on eight legged essays, this thesis will be analyzed the reasons why there is a negative impression in scholars' minds due to the difficulty of the writing style. Regarding the bibliography of imperial examination, the reference dimension of which is extensive, and the imperial examination system in that time was reformed easily by officials. Hence, building up the datum for academic research became tougher. Eight legged essays were abolished rashly while the styles of writing were out of date, even only after a short period of time. At the end of Qing dynasty, the imperial examination system was abrogated that made a great loss of the bibliography. Eight legged essays were constrained by the content, forms and lexical usages, moreover; they could be fathomed to acquire examiners' preferences of article styles by examinees. Therefore, the tendency made it arduous for modern scholars to distinguish and discuss the examinees' writing styles.
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