Analysis Of Our Country Modern Judicial Ceremony

Justice itself is a symbol expressing the rational culture under the background of state law,and also a symbol of utility and justice. Justice abstractly depends on the law to guarantee itsimplementation, however, the most direct way to realize justice is the perception of court trialand trial results. The perception process needs a carrier—judicial ceremony to complete.Judicial ceremony can find its origin in ancient times. Now, people pay more attention toinheriting the fine tradition. They not only lay stress on various ceremony activities, but also arestrict with the rules and procedures in the ceremony. The judicial ceremony is composed ofsymbolic form and behavioral formations. In this closed field of the court, the various symbolsand behaviors should include the following: the layout style of the whole court, the symbols andmarks such as gavel, robe and national emblem, and also professional legal terms etc.This article traces the origin of the judicial ceremony from ancient times, and analyses thejudicial ceremony with the aid of material forms of symbols in ancient Yamen. Then the articleanalyses the judicial ceremony from the perspective of material forms of symbols in moderncourt. The differences of the two aspects are compared and evaluated. The article is divided intothree parts.The first part is the introduction. This part mainly introduces the background of this thesis,and the necessity for China to attach great importance to judicial ceremony in the modern legalsociety.The second part is the main part which is divided into three chapters.The first chapter is the historical investigation of judicial ceremony. Starting from severalviews on the ceremony of scholars from home and broad, the article introduces the historicalevolution of judicial ceremony and the reason why justice is dependent on ceremony. The keypoint is the overview of the ceremony and the historical evolution of judicial ceremony, whichlay a foundation for the introduction of the judicial ceremony content. In the part of the historicalevolution of judicial ceremony, the content or constituent elements of judicial ceremony areintroduced first, followed by the introduction of the historical evolution of judicial ceremony.The second chapter is case analysis of judicial ceremony from the perspective of judicialsymbol in the form of material. This is the key part. The author put the judicial symbol in theform of material, both in ancient Yamen and modern court, as the focal point, introducing thebuildings of Yamen and court, bright mirror and national emblem, mallet and gavel, officialgowns and robes in the way of symmetry, analyzing their origins, and legal and cultural meaning,and further evaluating the two parts. The third chapter is the reform path of modern judicial ceremony. This part pays muchattention to the reform measures of modern judicial ceremony. According to the content above,the author analyzes the general situation of the current judicial ceremony and indicates reformmeasures of judicial ceremony. The measures focuse on three aspects: the first one is the judges’clothes reform, the second is the layout structure of the court, the third is the construction ofcourt culture.The third part is a conclusion. This part summarizes the whole text, points out that in thebuilding of a harmonious socialist society, it is necessary and urgent to attach importance tojudicial ceremony, and affirms the achievements of our country’s judicial reform.This article is innovative in that it first introduced the judicial ceremony representative ofancient Yamen, the judicial symbol in the form of material, i.e. the buildings of Yamen, thebright mirror and mallet, leading to those of modern court—the buildings of the court, nationalemblem and gavel. The two aspects are elaborated separately, compared and evaluated. Theinadequacy of this article lies in that the author did not conduct a comprehensive and detailedanalysis of the constitute elements of judicial ceremony, and only took onerepresentative—judicial symbol in the form of material as an example. At the same time, theconstruction analysis of judicial ceremony is not thorough enough. These are all what the authorneeds to make efforts to in the future.