科举之途屡屡不顺左宗棠湖南湘阴县人,其祖辈在南宋间从江西迁至湖南湘阴。尽管少年时左宗棠就以优异成绩考上秀才,但他的科举之路却很不顺利。道光十二年参加湖南乡试时,试卷没能被阅卷的考官看中差点同举人资格失之交臂,幸好这是道光帝五十大寿的恩科,主考官从5000余考卷中又选了6份,左宗棠名列增补的6人之首。此后,左宗棠三次考进士落榜。有一次是因湖南人中多 The route of the imperial examination often went unnatural Zuo Zongtang Hunan Xiangyin County, his ancestors in the Southern Song Dynasty moved from Jiangxi to Hunan Xiangyin. Although Zuo Zongtang was admitted as a scholar with outstanding achievements in his youth, his path to imperial examination was not smooth. Daoguang twelve years to participate in the Hunan Provincial Examination, the papers failed to be scored examiner fancy almost lifted eligibility with the Lords, but fortunately this is the 50th Daoguang Enke, the examiner from more than 5,000 papers in another 6, left Zong Tang added the first six people. Since then, Zuo Zongtang three candidates into the exams. Once because of more people in Hunan