Song court sponsors printing of Confucian classics
1037
The imperial government commissioned woodblock editions of the complete Confucian canon for distribution to schools and officials across the empire. Thousands of identical copies reached even remote provincial towns, standardizing the texts on which civil service examinations were based and creating a shared literary culture among the educated class on a scale no previous civilization had achieved.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.