Abstract: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