The Ethnic Legal Policy In The Northwest Borderland Areas In The Northern Song Dynasty

There were multi-ethnic groups and complicated relationship in the Northwest borderland areas such as JingYuan, Huanqing, Qinfeng and later Xi-he-lan-min roads in the Northern Song Dynasty, so the political and military location and their attitudes toward the central government get importance here. After the period of former the ZHenZong emperor, the strategy of exploiting the Northwest region had initiated And became a basic policy of the Northwest regions in order to uniting the FanTribe and together defeating Xia Regime.Therefore, the government emphasized the execution of policies by the law and legislated a many the ethnic legal policy which mediated the relations between the government of the minorities and the central Dynasty in addition to the relations between group of peoples. The regulations of styles included the especial laws such as "HeDuan", the protection and some temporary decrees on the Fan Tribe's peoples, and the administered law on Fan Official of appoint, succession, statue, prize and penalty, and the economic legal on the peoples of the tea for horse trade, earth and commerce business as well as the Fan-Bing Army law on their degrees, exercise and the penalty.In addition, there were some law such as forbid regulation and encouraged accusation in trade of the tea, salt and alcohol. In a word, they have a greatly rich and detail in content which almost embraced all aspects of the political, economy or army, and formed its whole and united legal system.A matter of fact, the ethnic legal policy in the Northwest Borderland was a component part of the home policy in the Northern Song. They, on the hand, showed the ideas of the Song Dynasty regarded "the management of the minorities conforming with their local habit" as a principles of solved problems. On the other hand, viewed the ideas of reformation in time by the Northern Song. To contrast with the law of the inland of the Northern Song, the ethnic legal system was a especial pattern of the law and a outstanding model which combined with the legal of the home and nation, the nature of the place or human of the law, and showed bright territory and timely feature.The legal policy of formulation and execution had played a very important roles in dealing with the confliction, defeating the crime of styles and security the society in the Northwest Borderland in the Northern Song.