On the course of Confucianization of law in ancient China?

The movement of Confucianization of Chinese law was initiated by Dong Zhongshu and others, and can be roughly divided into three stages:

One is the period of the two Han dynasties, which is the beginning stage of the legalization of Confucianism. The judgments of the Spring and Autumn period were the beginning of legal Confucianism in China.

The second is the period of Wei, Jin, and North and South Dynasties, which is the in-depth stage of the Confucianization of Chinese law. During this period, Confucianism began to permeate the field of legislation, setting off a climax of classical exegesis. Such laws had the same legal effect as the original law, and the Confucianization of Chinese law took a substantial step forward.

Third is the Sui and Tang dynasties, which was the final stage of the Confucianization of Chinese law. The process of Confucianization of Chinese law was basically completed during the Sui and Tang dynasties. The influence of Confucianism on Chinese law was comprehensively reflected in a masterpiece of ancient Chinese law, the Tang Law Review, which integrated Confucianism and feudal law to form a legal system that united Confucianism and law.

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The impact of Confucianization of law in ancient China:

1. The establishment of the guiding ideology of Confucian law, which emphasizes the rule of virtue.

2. Some basic legal principles have been established. In the process of Confucianization of Chinese law, the essence of Confucianism was injected into the law, sublimated into the basic principles of feudal law, mainly "eight proposals" system, "official when" system, quasi-five clothes to system crimes and "ten articles of felony "

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3. In the process of "citing the classics to decide on prisons" and "citing the rites into the law", the basic political and legal ideas of Confucianism were integrated into the law, and a series of specific legal views in line with Confucianism were gradually formed.

4. Confucianism in Chinese law promoted Confucianism in the administration of justice. The widespread use of judgments in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period made a large number of officials with Confucian classical literacy increasingly important.

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