Cheating is a pheuomen that appears right after the advent of imperial examination.In the Qing dinasty,the government took the most severe measures in Chinese history to prohibit cheating in exam and frequently undertook the anti-dheating activities.This paper mainly discussed the means of cheating and the anti-frand and punishing measures taken by the government.However,the phenomenon of cheating had turned more rampant even established its own marbet,thus creating a parodoxical spectical in which ban and cheat co-exists.