The imperial examination was not only very important for scholars during Ming Dynasty, but also played the crucial role to the novel plot Sometimes the plots not related to the imperial civil service examination, also appeared in a coat wrapping the elements of the imperial civil service examination The author likes to figure this creation phenomenon the plot contains the elements of imperial examination This kind of special plot pattern contains analogy and simulation It not only expands the scope of the topic of imperial examination and novels, but also helps us to do research on the novel literary style change