On The Value Of The People In The Spirit Of Traditional Chinese Law

Our country practiced absolute monarchy in ancient times. Populace-centered thought appeared embryonic very early in WEST CHOU period, to make up limitations of the czarism govern and pursue the social harmony, and continuously perfected with development, finally became a governmental thought. It was a fundamental point of departure for every ruler in past dynasties to establish various systems and adopt many kinds of acts, it was a basic country management thought that any ruler could not publicly deny. The thought also deeply infiltrated law field, and became a basic value tropism of Chinese traditional law spirit to make the traditional law have abundant people origin connotations. Pursue of tradition law to the populace-centered value, finally made tradition law achieved to the goal that can made "the law goes with the people will" and "appease the disputes". It built up the social harmony and stabilization. But, the populace-centered is not equal to human-centered, "populace" in populace-centered takes "subjects of a ruler" as the basic context environment, and negative influences inside should not be despised. Today when we actively carry on building up the people oriented law and the people's livelihood, we should inherit the soul of populace-centered from traditional law spirit, as the same time exceed negative influences of populace-centered, and rebuild the value of populace-centered actively, realize the modern exceeding from populace-centered to human-centered.