The Jiangnan Examination Hall (simplified Chinese: 江南贡院; traditional Chinese: 江南貢院; pinyin: Jiāngnán Gòngyuàn, Jiangnan Gongyuan), near the Confucius temple, is located in the southern part of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.
[citation needed] The district of Qinhuai River once prospered because of the Examination Hall, Fule Court, and Confucius Temple.
[1] The Examination Hall was listed among the third batch of Provincial Key Cultural Relics Protection Units in Jiangsu Province in 1982.
[citation needed] In 2002, the ancient buildings of Jiangnan Examination Hall were classified into Gongyuan Inscriptions,[clarification needed] and it was listed in the provincial units of cultural relics protection under the name of Jiangnan Examination Hall.
[6][1][3] It is the only professional museum that reflects the content of Chinese imperial civil examination system in China.