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Briefly describe the main manifestations of Confucian criminal law in China during Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

First, "ethics" into the law:

1, "quasi-five servitude to punish crimes", and "servitude system" was first included in the Jin law as the basis for sentencing;

2. Establish "Ten Serious Crimes". The "Northern Qi Law" classifies words and deeds that seriously endanger the interests of feudal countries and infringe upon feudal interests into ten articles, which are placed in the first article of the code.

Second, privilege enters the legal level:

1, "Eight Debates" entered the law, and the new law stipulated "Eight Debates" based on Zhou Li's "Eight Debates";

2. "Being an official", also known as "being an official as a disciple", originated from the "miscellaneous atonement" in the Jin Law, which allows officials to atone for their acts as disciples with official goods and titles.

Third, the principle of "repeated death penalty":

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the decision-making power of death penalty was centralized.

Extended data:

Legalization of Confucianism refers to the process of China's legal evolution since Qin and Han Dynasties. By introducing etiquette into the law, Confucianism gradually penetrated into all fields of law, guided legislation, interpreted the law, influenced the judiciary, and finally realized the unification of etiquette and law.

Mr. Zhang pointed out: From the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he took Confucianism as the guiding ideology, thus starting the legalization process of Confucianism. From the Western Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, it took more than 800 years to finalize the design. ..... The various channels opened by the Han Dynasty created favorable conditions for introducing rites into the law and combining them.

From Wei Jin to Tang Dynasty, the historic combination of etiquette and law was finally completed along this route, which pushed the history of Chinese legal system to an epoch-making stage. The Confucianism of ancient Chinese law has gone through three stages: Han Dynasty, Three Kingdoms, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties.

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