Since ancient Chinese intellectuals desired to realize their worldly ideal of “studying well so as to become an official”, they would definitely have their daily lifestyle and behavior, and their daily thinking and ideas involved with the officials selection system of their times. The officials selection systems of various dynasties had a profound influence on the intellectuals, and even on their literary creation. In the Han Dynasty, the recommendation system (察举制) was put into effect. Accordingly, besides the learning ability and talent, it was really crucial for intellectuals to make their reputation and talent well known. And travelling across the country and visiting high officials became important ways for their promotion. Therefore, the experiences of wanderers and the regretting of their wives (游子思妇) became literary themes in the Han Dynasty. The nine-rank system of officials selection by evaluation (九品中正制) was carried out in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. And family status and social evaluation became two key points of this officials selection system. The family status of a person was fixed, but evaluation for him varied a lot. So the intellectuals in the Six Dynasties made their efforts to do a series of performances for attaining a good valuation. Metaphysical poems and scenic poems emerged as the times requires. In the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination system was put into effect, which attached importance to the examination for metropolitan graduates (进士), selected scholar-officials by their poem writings, and promoted the formation of a system in which the provincial graduates (举人) presented their daily writings to the examiner in charge of the examination for metropolitan graduates (纳卷), and the provincial graduates presented their essays and poems to the well-known high officials (行卷). The above practices caused the creation of poems to prosper for a long time in the Tang Dynasty and expanded the themes of poetic writings. As the imperial examination system was reformed in the Song Dynasty and such a series of new rules were formulated as the sealing of the examinee’s name on his examination paper (弥封), Song poetry failed to make a high achievement as Tang poetry did. As the examination contents attached importance to the discussion of coping strategies, it formed the style of focusing on discussions in literary creation. In the imperial examination of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the stereotyped writing of eight-part essays (八股) was given priority to, which went far away from literature.