The Imperial Examination, Schools and Woodblock Printing: Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties

In 581, Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty, thus the division and separation status of the nation finally ended, and the society gradually became stabilized. The Sui Dynasty continued to implement the equal-field system created by the Northern Wei Dynasty in order to develop economy on the one hand, and on the other hand, the new dynasty carried out a political reform and established “Sansheng Liubu” system (the Three Departments and the Six Ministries), which laid the foundation of the bureaucratic system in Chinese feudal society for more than a thousand years and had far-reaching historical influence.