| The chinese minority traditional legal culture is an indispensable part to the Thelegal culture of Chinese ethnic minorities has made significant contributions to theformation and development of that of the whole nation. As the legal culture of ethnicminorities is an important part of Chinese legal culture, if we don’t deepen theunderstanding of the legal culture of Chinese minorities, or we don’t exploit theoutstanding and reasonable components of that, we can neither have a generalrecognition of the overall Chinese legal culture, nor can we describe its overalloutlook. Therefore, the outstanding cultural heritage of the legal culture of ethnicminorities should be exploited fully, thus it will benefit Chinese current legal systemconstruction. In China, national universities are important places for the inheritanceand promotion of the legal culture of ethnic minorities. So embracing the legal cultureof ethnic minorities into the legal concept education of the students in nationaluniversities will not only have an important significance in the inheritance andpromotion of the legal culture of Chinese ethnic minorities, but also have an importanttheoretical and practical significance in the enrichment of the content and form of thelegal concept education of the students in national universities, the furtherimprovement of legal concept of the students in national universities, and thepromotion of ruling the country in accordance with law.The legal culture of ethnic minorities is a kind of living and life style created anddeveloped together by all ethnic minorities in the long historical development. It iscomposed by the kernel and the shell, in which the kernel refers to the valuefoundation governing the legal practical activities, which can also be called “thelegally constituted authorityâ€, and the shell refers to the socialization process of thevalue foundation, which can also be called “the body of lawâ€. The legally constitutedauthority is characterized by stability, universality, independence and consistency,while the body of law is characterized by unity, independence and consistency. Compared with Chinese traditional legal culture, the legal culture of ethnic minorityregions has its particular characteristics, such as nationality, territoriality, diversityand movable features.The educational current situation of the legal concept of the students in nationaluniversities is that the educational carrier and course teaching of legal concept aresingle, and the basic legal knowledge level of the college students should be raised. Inthe new historical conditions, it is necessary for us to further study the currentsituation and the basic characteristics of the legal concept education of the students innational universities, which can set the stage for us to fully realize the main problemsin the educational work of the legal concept of the students in national universities,and has an important significance of the improvement of it.The cultivation of the students’ legal quality is mainly realized by the social,school and self education, in which the most important one is school education. Thegist of legal education of universities is cultivating the legal quality of collegestudents, that is, the quality and ability of knowing, abiding by, using and protectingthe law. Legal knowledge, legal consciousness and the usage ability of law are threebasic elements of the legal quality. In the meantime, the education of the legal conceptof the students in national universities is different from that in non-nationaluniversities, which are mainly reflected in the particularity of the its object, thespecificality of its aim and duty, the pertinence of its content, and the uniqueness of itsstatus.The above analysis of the current situation and basic characteristics of the legalconcept education of the students in national universities has made solid foundation infinding the problems and deficiencies of the educational work of the legal concept ofthe students in national universities. A vague position of the education on legalconcept of university students, and a less obvious effect of it are the two mainproblems existing in it. Fully realizing these problems can further reflect thatinsufficient regards on legal concept education, negative influence of traditionalcultural custom, and interference of western hostile forces are the main obstaclespreventing the good effect of the educational work of the legal concept of the students in national universities. Finding these reasons of problems can further improve thepertinence and pragmaticality of this work.The legal culture of Chinese ethnic minorities plays a vital role in the students’legal concept in national universities. And its educational function is mainly reflectedin such aspects as the function of the legal culture of Chinese ethnic minorities inclass and practical teaching, and that of maintaining friendliness and harmony incampus. We can neither inherit or carry forward the legal culture of Chinese ethnicminorities in an action, nor can we overlook the education on legal concept of thestudents in national universities. How to better play the role of the legal culture ofethnic minorities in the legal concept education of the students in national universities,and how to better combine them together for study so as to bring out the best in eachother need our deeper discussion. |