Author(s)

Hong Shuzhen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ People's Public Security University of China, Beijing, China

Corresponding Author

Hong Shuzhen

ABSTRACT

This essay's goal is to examine how legal cultures have evolved throughout time through inheritance and analysis, using the legal systems of the Ming and Qing dynasties as case studies. During the last stages of Chinese feudal society, the Ming and Qing Dynasties were a crucial epoch. Its legal system not only inherited the essence of the previous legal culture, but also changed significantly under the specific social, economic and political background, showing the distinctive characteristics of the dynamic development of legal culture. The essay begins by going over the fundamentals of the Ming and Qing legal systems, such as the legal system, judicial practice, and so forth, with an emphasis on the analysis of the "Daming Law" and "Qing Law" and other representative codes of the compilation background, content characteristics and impact on future generations. Subsequently, from the legal thought, legal system, judicial practice 3 a dimension, elaborated the Ming and Qing legal system in the inheritance of traditional legal culture at the same time, how to adapt to the changes of the times and the adjustment and innovation. This paper also looks at a variety of other factors that influenced the legal system's inheritance and evolution during the Ming and Qing dynasties, such as changes in social and economic structures, reorganization of political power, the development of cultural theory, the introduction of foreign legal cultures, and so on. Finally, this paper summarizes the historical significance of the legal system's inheritance and change during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, noting that it not only provides a rich legal cultural heritage for future generations, but also serves as an important enlightenment for understanding how legal culture adapts to social development. At the same time, this study considers the role of traditional legal culture in the development of modern rule of law, emphasizing the significance of both inheritance and invention.

KEYWORDS

Inheritance of legal culture; the legal system of Ming and Qing Dynasties; changes; judicial practice

CITE THIS PAPER

Hong Shuzhen. The Inheritance and Change of Legal Culture: Taking the Legal System of Ming and Qing Dynasties as an Example. Science of Law Journal (2024) Vol. 3: 170-174. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/DOI: 10.23977/law.2024.030525.

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