On the Laws of Tang Dynasty
On the Laws of Tang Dynasty
The second chapter, the Law on Guarding the Forbidden City, mainly protects the personal safety, national sovereignty and border security of the emperor.
The third chapter, the law of professional system, is mainly about the establishment, appointment, responsibility and punishment of corrupt officials.
The fourth chapter "Family Marriage Law" is mainly about household registration, land, taxation, marriage and family, so as to ensure the national tax source and safeguard the feudal marriage and family relationship;
Article 5 The Law on Stables and Stores is mainly about the management of raising livestock and storage, and protects official property from infringement.
The sixth Law of Prosperity is mainly about the recruitment of soldiers, the mobilization of troops, the duties of generals, the supply of military supplies, illegal buildings and the collection of corvees. To ensure that the military power is in the hands of the emperor, control the levy of labor, and ease social contradictions;
The seventh "Law on Thieves and Bandits" mainly focuses on severely suppressing and deliberately overthrowing the feudal regime, cracking down on other serious crimes and protecting public and private property from infringement;
The eighth chapter "The Law of Fighting Litigation" is mainly about punishing struggles and maintaining the feudal litigation system;
Article 9 The Law on Fraud and Falsification is mainly about cracking down on criminal acts of fraudulent insurance and maintaining feudal social order.
Article 10 "Miscellaneous Law", which does not belong to other "specific provisions", is stipulated here;
Article 11 The Law on the Capture of Death is mainly about the pursuit of fugitives and soldiers, and the escape of officials and slaves who ensure military service and corvee recruitment and social security in feudal countries;
Article 12 The Prison Break Law is mainly about trial, judgment, execution and prison management.
On the Laws of Tang Dynasty
On the Laws of Tang Dynasty
In the third year of Yonghui, Tang Gaozong ordered Sun Chang Wuji and others to explain the spiritual essence and articles of Yonghui Law one by one, so as to clarify the meaning of the articles, analyze the connotation and dispel doubts through the form of questions and answers, and write 30 volumes, which were promulgated in the fourth year of Yonghui. The law book and the law book are integrated into one, and they are collectively called Yonghui Law Book (called Tang Law Book in Song and Yuan Dynasties, and Tang Law Book in late Ming and early Qing Dynasties). "Law" and "art" have the same legal effect. "Those who break the prison will naturally analyze it with art". Since then, the laws have not changed much, and most of the additions and deletions by the emperor are "orders", "forms" and "forms", which can be said that the laws of the Tang Dynasty are basically stereotyped. Up to now, only the laws of the Tang Dynasty and the six codes of the Tang Dynasty have been handed down from generation to generation, and the rest have died. Since then, 500 laws have been annotated sentence by sentence and attached to the laws, which is called sparse discussion. The law and the book have the same legal effect, and they are collectively called the Yonghui Law Book, which is the representative work of the Tang Dynasty code. Later generations also called it "Tang Law Theory". This is the most influential feudal code in the history of China.
The legal provisions in the Law of the Tang Dynasty reflect the legal status and relations of various classes and strata in the Tang Dynasty, as well as some political and economic systems. This is an important document for studying the history of the Tang Dynasty.
The Law of the Tang Dynasty summarizes the legislative experience and judicial practice of past dynasties, compromises gains and losses, and makes it systematic and meticulous. Therefore, its legislation is more prudent, its content is more thorough, its items are more concise and its explanation is more accurate. Its legislative theory is based on Confucianism and feudal ethics as its legal ideological basis, so it is the main tool to maintain the feudal economic base and its superstructure and adjust the relations between all aspects of society. It is the blueprint of later criminal law. Through frequent exchanges and cultural exchanges between the Tang Dynasty and neighboring countries, the laws of the Tang Dynasty also had a great influence on the codes of ancient Asian countries. In ancient Japan, Korea, Vietnam and other countries, most of them copied Tang laws. Scholars of international legal history compare the Tang law with European Roman law and regard it as the representative work of ancient "Chinese (China) legal system".
The oldest extant editions of Yi Shu of Tang Dynasty include the Song Dynasty's residual engraving collected by Shanghai Library, the Song Dynasty's residual engraving collected by Beijing Library and the Yuan Dynasty's engraving collected by Gu Xizhai of Wuxian County. In the 11th year of Yuan Dynasty (135 1), Chonghua 'an had a printed version. Among the unearthed documents in Dunhuang and Turpan, there is a remnant of the Tang Dynasty book Fa Shu (see page 49 of the color map insert). In Japan, there are also many kinds of ancient manuscripts and engravings, such as the official version of the second year of culture (1805). 1983, Zhonghua Book Company published Liu's Notes on Tang Law. The proofreader took Hanfenlou's "West House Block Edition" as the base copy, and participated in the proofreading of other versions, making detailed proofreading notes. In addition, the Law of the Tang Dynasty, without the Song version, has also been photocopied and distributed by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House.