A Study On The Costume System In The Qing Dynasty From Legal Vision

Clothing is essential to people's life.In the ancient Xia,Shang and Zhou Dynasty,it has developed a complete costume system.With the continuous development of society,crown suit system has been perfect.Confucian thought that champions league system embodies as a hierarchy of the spirit of "the ritual",this thought is followed in the later rulers.The Qing Dynasty is no exception.Although retained a large number of full crown in the Qing Dynasty clothing system national characteristics of clothing.Regardless of the shape difference,crown in the Qing Dynasty although retained a large number of national characteristics of clothing,its essence is still requires people to follow the Confucian advocated by hierarchy.In all previous dynasties law,costume system exists as a part of it.Qing dynasty crown suit law from scratch,in the Ming Dynasty crown suit law on the basis of developing gradually.The crown law can be divided into two parts,one part of a regulation is serving system itself,the legal provisions on the "Qing Dynasty Code" and its affiliated "Qing Dynasty Code case",mainly including people should wear what kind of dress and the style of these dress.Another part of the crown law provides for violations of the costume system of punitive measures,including administrative penalties and criminal penalties.Administrative penalties according to the severity of fines a month,fines for three months,fines for six months,fines a year,demoted and dismissed.Criminal penalties are divided into the crime of violating the imperial power and the crime of infringing upon the feudal order:Violation of royal majestic crimes included taking the royal thing,giving the royal clothing and weaving prohibited Dragon and Phoenix grain article satin horse.Infringement of feudal rank order crime including the use of color off the law and monk prayer parents.Qing Dynasty offenses against the repeated violations of the ban,its main performance for the four categories of crowned violations,that is,crowned arrogance behavior,corpus abuse behavior,no crowns behavior and after taking the use of coronary behavior.The Qing Dynasty on the violation of law suit system behavior standards are not flat,but according to the circumstances plus or minus conviction.The rulers of the Qing Dynasty were able to make a wide loan in the minority areas and the border areas,and the judicial strategy achieved good results,which not only reduced the national contradictions,but also changed the costume system in these areas,but for political cases,the Qing rulers have taken a strict and serious criminal policy.From Qing Dynasty shave hair clothing make Nian Gengyao case,from the literary inquisition to He Shen,although on the surface are the crown of the breach behavior,but in fact the lack of breaking the Qing imperial rule,therefore to a heavier and it is not surprising that the criminal policy strictly.For the general canonical violations,the Qing Dynasty to develop the law of the crown did not achieve the desired results.The reasons for the emergence of these canonical offenses are mainly due to the loopholes in the formulation of the condominium policy and the system.The penalties for the violation of the law of the crown and the law are not directly proportional to the illegal income,and the rigid costume system suppresses the demand of human nature.