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Through comprehensive research on a series of imperial examination documents of the Ming Dynasty, this book discovers various problems existing in the documentary records and solves several major problems in the field of research on the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, such as the accurate list of Hongwu's eighteenth year list, the exact number of subjects and the total number of admissions in the Ming Dynasty Jinshi list, etc. On this basis, a statistical analysis was conducted on the number of Jinshi scholars and their distribution in a province in Jiangxi during the Ming Dynasty, and a detailed textual research was conducted on the errors or omissions in relevant documents when recording Jiangxi Jinshi scholars. Finally, a biography of Jiangxi Jinshi scholars in the Ming Dynasty was obtained. The research results of this book will help readers gain an in-depth understanding of the imperial examination documents of the Ming Dynasty, so as to make rational use of relevant documents; accurately grasp the basic information of Jiangxi Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty, and promote the development of related cultural industries.