Why the rule of law did not develop in ancient China

Ancient Chinese law was centered on the two main lines of "family" and "class", so it exuded a strong flavor of "blood" and "privilege". "Privilege" flavor, so it determines its own difficult to integrate into the limitations of the contemporary legal system, and the contemporary legal system emphasizes "equality before the law", "punishment is not favoritism "and the contemporary legal system emphasizes the principles of "equality before the law" and "no favoritism in punishment".

Ancient Chinese natural law thought affirms the absolute rationality of the state, there is the state, the people and no individual, there is the power of the monarch and no human rights, the lack of universal justice and people's democratic ideology, the state, the family, the supremacy of the male; social relationships since the family, the blood ties throughout, the state of the naturalization of the state, all based on the governance of the state, the law, the state of the one, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, law and justice, the human nature of the good and evil, and all of them! The law is determined by the needs of the state and is completely instrumentalized, and vice versa, the state is also instrumentalized and becomes a means for the monarch to exercise his rule.

The Chinese natural law view of law has always been the unity of the legal system and morality. For example, the law of benevolence, the law of Taoism, the law of fraternity and mutual benefit, all very much emphasize the importance of moral norms, the so-called family, country and the world as the first, give up their lives for righteousness, self-sacrifice.