Using the knowledge of cultural life, this paper expounds how to treat traditional legal thoughts correctly in the process of governing the country according to law.

First of all, using the knowledge of cultural life, this paper expounds the correct treatment of traditional legal thought in the process of governing the country according to law:

1. Traditional culture is inherited, and we should learn to dialectically inherit traditional excellent legal thoughts. After thousands of years' development, China's traditional thought of rule of law has become an important part of China culture, which has a far-reaching impact on China people's values and social development.

2. Traditional culture is relatively stable, so we should learn to reform the rule of law on the basis of traditional legal thought. The thought of "rule of law" in China's traditional culture is still reflected in today's socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, and at the same time, it has been given a new connotation of comprehensively promoting the rule of law.

3. In the process of social development, if the traditional thought of rule of law can adapt to the changes of social life, it will play a positive role in the development of society and people. In the process of comprehensively promoting the rule of law, we should continue to maintain and carry forward the traditional thought of rule of law.

4. Inheritance is the necessary premise of development, and development is the inevitable requirement of inheritance. To treat the traditional thought of rule of law, we must "critically inherit, make the past serve the present" and "bring forth the new".

A series of thoughts on governing the country according to law put forward by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee are based on years of exploration and practice, drawing on the excellent thoughts of the rule of law in China traditional culture and reflecting the requirements of the new era.

Second, the essence of the so-called traditional legal thought is the fundamental principle of effectively controlling the legal content in a certain period of time.

1, China's traditional legal thought is the fundamental principle that can dominate the legal content in different periods of China's thousands of years of history, and it is also the continuation of China's thousands of years of feudal orthodox legal thought. Confucian culture is its essence and the core part of China's historical and traditional culture.

2. In addition, it must be clearly recognized that the Confucian culture here is Dong Zhongshu's "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", not the way of Confucius and Mencius. Confucian culture in the early Han Dynasty should be gradually sublimated into a new culture integrating Taoism, Legalism and Confucianism. At this time, the establishment of culture not only marked the formation of China's feudal orthodoxy, but also promoted the infiltration of "Confucianism by foreign teachers" in China's feudal era.