A Study On The Group Of Officials In The Tang Dynasty And Their Legal Practice

Upright Official as distinguished from the "ordinary officials","Torturer" and "corrupt officials",start from the "Historical records" to write biographies,and was later dynasty adopted by.Upright Officials have dual identity "officials" and "teacher",which has dual attributes of culture and administration,"officials" as the link between the king and the people.The official is closely related to the political environment and the system of selecting officials,its basic function is to maintain social order,a court decree.The main task of the division,is through active advocacy and education,the establishment of cultural order,or through their own moral example,set a good example to the people.Each dynasty has characteristics of the era belongs to every dynasty,as the "official" in the Tang Dynasty official also cannot do without the historical environment.The early Tang Dynasty,political environment is Emperor Ming's politics straight and the imperial election officials selecting system become more and more complete.Based on this in the period of official distribution mainly concentrated in the early Tang dynasty.With the late Tang Dynasty the central to further weaken the power of local officials selection,the number is further reduction.Different authors have different historical official criteria.The main selection criteria of “new and old Tangshu” is good political achievements.In traditional society,because there is no concept and system of separation of powers in modern sense,the practice activities of officials involve all aspects of legislation,administration,justice and so on.In the aspect of legislation,the Tang Dynasty official compared to the Han Dynasty official practice,significantly less in the legislation.Even in the face of remote false etiquette people,their practices are mainly education and so on.In the aspect of law enforcement officials in Tang Dynasty are generalized,enriching,litigation,education to be done.The ancient Chinese is a traditional agricultural society,agriculture is a feudal country economy,Confucian political thought of "to make people must rich them first" is a guide to action official performance.So they took a series of measures for disaster relief,a shortage of people,water conservancy,tyrannical reclamation,agricultural change etc.The basic political philosophy of Confucianism is " rich after teaching ".With loyalty as the main content of the Confucian ideology to promote social education,or indirect communication,they made the majority of the people become the ruler's obedient.At the hearing,compared to official and general feudal officials,its important role is "the political level,the so-called" interest litigation "Zheng Ping",so that the work of fairness and justice,social stability and harmony.The Tang Dynasty upright official,on the one hand is the effect of the traditional Confucian Thought on morality and culture of Han Dynasty official,on the other hand,we can not ignore the background.The economic prosperity and political stability,and enlightened monarch system constitutes a superior social environment which upright officials are one of essential prerequisite.