The Literati Of Tang Dynasty And The Law Of Tang Dynasty

In the preface, the author have introduced the situation of the research on the law of Tang Dynasty, it has got a remarkable achievement nowadays. The research on the literati has got more outstanding achievement. But the research on integrating the two of them is a new area, it can hardly attract schorlars'attention. So the aim of this paper is to explore this new area.There are five chapters in the whole paper .ChapterⅠsays about the effect on the literati, when the law of Tang Dynasty be put into practice. The author try to find what kind of punishment could be cast to the poets whose behavior collided with the law, and explore which fates could be cast by these sentences. This section contain three cases: poet LiBai was exiled to YeLang as a prisoner by reason of the illegal action that "following LiLin"; poet WangChangLing was killed by LvQiuXiao who was the chief official in BoZhou, poetess YuXuanJi was executed for she had hit her handmaiden to death. The conclusion is that Libai was not treat unjustly: in WangChangLing's case, LvQiuXiao was a murder, who killed WangChangLing because He hateWang ,WangChangLing is innocent: in the third case, YuXuanJi couldn't be dealt with death penalty though she was guilty.ChapterⅡfocus on the event that "many officials of the Tang Dynasty were compelled to accept the official titles of the false regim by rebellious army", explore the relation between the fate of literati and the law in the collective event. More than two hundred officials were involved in this event. After return to ChangAn, Emperor SuZong punished these officials very severely, many officials were put to death, some were exiled to very far territory, and the most kind punishment was demotion. Two《Tang shu》,《Great historic writings of politicization》all has the record to this event. Many literati were down on their luck in the lifetime because this event, for instance, poet WangWei and artist ZhengQian were two examples, the former was demoted, the latter was exiled to TaiZhou which is below to Province ZheJiang. The conclusion is that the most important position of《The Interpretation of Tang Dynasty's Law》has been shaked ,the influence has been weakened.The main content of chapterⅢis to explore the eminent poets' thoughts on law, take LiuZongYuan and Baijuyi for example. The law of Tang Dynasty transcended time and space in many aspects which still have value in today. As officials, some important literati has their own thoughts of the law on theory and practical. These thougnts are treasure and important native source of legislation. The research of this section proceeded with comparison between the eminent poets's thought sof legal system and practice, search after the inherent source of legal system which are not bound by stale and rigid rules of etiquette.ChapterⅣtake "the files of judgement which are written in the exam" as medium, probe into the effct which law on the selection of cadres in the intellectuals. In Tang Dynasty, "the writing of judgement's files test " was a important content in the election procedure. Though follows the system of Sui Dynasty, it consummated gradually in the developing process, has formed set of unique systems. After Tang Dynasty, many researchers take the "Jinshi test" as their research's basic point, do not think much of the "the writing of judgement's files test". So this section took this form of test as the center of research, through the research, concluded that the factor of law was a important criterion in this test. "The writing of judgement's files test" was a bond between the officials and the law.ChapterⅤtake the Tang poems as the scope review the reflection of The law in the poets. The Tang poems reflect the social life very boardly, from the significant historical event to the common people's life, everything and everyone could be expressed in the Tang poems. So the task of this chapter is to observe the status in which the law be reflected in the Tang poems by way of classifying the poems into four groups.which expressed the law in the《All the Tang Poems》.