Research On Legal Education In Sung Dynasty

The development of legal education in the Song Dynasty has their specific historical background in the whole development process of legal education of ancient China. In Song Dynasty, The scholar-bureaucrat'consciousness of learning legal is improved under the influence of the publicizing by the emperor. Legal education in Song has an important position for its unique and distinct era characteristics, and compared to other dynasty it has its own characteristics. Firstly, in Song Dynasty the official legal education was more prosperous than any other Dynasty. Secondly, in the Song Dynasty the folk learn law spontaneously. In this paper, the legal education of the Song Dynasty is discussed in official and folk.In the Song Dynasty the measures of training and educating officials were legal education and legal examination. In the officials evaluation, government pay more attention to law test, so law flourish and a large number of professional legal personnel are trained. In the official examination,the Song government take legal examination means to improving the level of legal services officials, which includes the Mingfa(明法科)or the New Mingfa(新科明法)of the imperial examination was to test legal knowledge of third-class and Shi Xingfa(试刑法)was to test trial law knowledge of service officials. Law officials take part in the legal test. The Song government officials'electing linked to the legal knowledge in order to studying the legal by officials. In the actual process of law enforcement by officials in Song Dynasty, some officials would make the accumulated experience into Guan Zhen(官箴),in the process,law enforcement level and moral quality of officials have improved.In the folk of Song Dynasty the study litigation and law was popular. It was promoted the popularization of learning law knowledge of folk. The emergence of lawyer and ShuPui(书铺)have played a role in promoting law. The Song government took means of punishment and limited when faced the learning law knowledge in folk. Generally speaking, the Song Dynasty legal education included official and folk. The Song government's attitude toward legal education were two measures. On the one hand government emphasis on official legal education on the other hand government restrict the lawful punishment and admit ShuPu(书 铺),limit the litigation of folk in a acceptability bound. So, whether the Song dynasty officials and civil two different legal education content or Government' different attitudes for legal education, which shows legal education in Song Dynasty has the special status and the contradictory of time in the history of ancient China law education.