Research On The Criminal Law System Of Northern Zhou

Bearing upward the budding Qin and Han Dynasties feudal legal system, carrying on downward highly mature and perfect Sui and Tend legal system, Northern Dynasty is an important link in the process that China feudal legal system steps into mature from newly establishedstage. During this period, the legal system of China is becoming perfect. As important part ofNorthern Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty has formed its unique legal contents. Thecriminal law system of the Northern Zhou, absorbing the reasonable composition of the lawsystem of the Northern Dynasties, drawing on and developing the legal system of theSouthern Dynasties, getting Confucianism to law system, become a new criminal systemwhich has rich content and range but no lack of innovation. The criminal system first gradethe Exile, justify the Imprisonment, thus the feudal five Criminal systems have beenconstructed. In addition,. The dynasty of the Northern Zhou taking the lead in concluding tenFelony System, set a new banner for the sake of feudal monarchy,catered the demand oftimes of peace and prosperity to satisfy feudal rulers. The Penal System of the Dynasty ofNorthern Zhou has a tremendous impact on the development of later legal system and lays thefoundation of the all-around development of the civil law of Sui and Tang.Based on the above cognition，the criminal law system of the Northern Zhou Dynastyhas been carried on the comprehensive aanalysis,the dissertation includes foreward,main textand conclusion.In foreword part, firstly introduces the important position of the criminal law system ofthe Northern Zhou Dynasty., also together with the its positive significance to that period.Secondly, focused on the research status of the criminal law system. Finally, pointed out thesubject of historical significance and practical value, this is also the innovation of the paper.The main text can be divided into three parts.Firstly, introduced the main criminal law of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, mainly focusingon the <Dalv><Xing Shu Yao Zhi><Xing Jing Sheng Zhi>, these status book is the mostimportant book which have great influence power in that period.Secondly, the main content and innovation of the Criminal law system of the NorthernZhou Dynasty be discussed in this part. Five kinds of criminal law system, includingBludgeon, Flogging, Imprisonment,Exile and death sentence are elaborated, and thenintroducing the innovation of the Exile, five kinds of criminal law systems, ten kinds of felony. This part is the main content of the paper, the content of it is to carry out the causes, influencethe basis and premise for follow-up study.Finally, as the global view of criminal system of the Northern Zhou, mainly discovers thecontent of two aspects, one aspect is the influence to the criminal law system of the dynastiesof Sui and Tang. The other aspect is the innovation of the Criminal System of the NorthernZhou. This part deeply dissects the social and political ground in the process of thedevelopment of the legal system of the Northern Zhou, discourses the positive effect ion ofthe system to the elaboration of the criminal law of Dynasties of Sui and Tang, aiming atchanging the people’s previous irrational opinion to justify the criminal system of theNorthern Zhou.