The second chapter "Law on Guarding the Forbidden City" mainly protects the personal safety of the emperor, national sovereignty and borders Safety.
Chapter 3, the professional system of law, is mainly about the establishment, appointment, responsibilities and punishment of corrupt officials.
Chapter 4 "Family and Marriage Law" is mainly about household registration, land, taxation, marriage and family, in order to ensure national tax sources and maintain feudal marriage and family relations;
Article 5 "Stage Library" "Law", which mainly concerns the management of raising livestock and warehousing, and protecting official property from infringement.
The sixth part, "The Law of the Prosperous Age", is mainly about the recruitment of soldiers, the mobilization of the army, the responsibilities of generals, the supply of military supplies, illegal construction and the collection of corvee services, etc. , to ensure that military power is in the hands of the emperor, control labor recruitment, and ease social conflicts;
The seventh "Thieves and Bandits Law" mainly talks about severe suppression and deliberate overthrow of feudal regimes, combating other serious crimes, and protecting Public and private property shall not be infringed upon;
Chapter 8, "Law of Litigation," is mainly about punishing battles and maintaining the feudal litigation system;
Article 9, "Law of Fraud and Falsification," It is mainly about cracking down on criminal acts of fraud and insurance fraud and maintaining the order of feudal society.
Article 10 "Miscellaneous Laws" does not belong to other "sub-provisions" and is stipulated here;
Article 11 "Law of Capture to Death" mainly talks about the laws of feudal countries In order to ensure the collection of military service and social security, fugitives and soldiers were hunted down, as well as officials and slaves escaped.
Article 12, "Prison Escape Law", mainly concerns trial, sentencing, execution and prison management.
In the third year of Yonghui, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty ordered Sun Changwuji and others to explain the spiritual essence and legal provisions of the "Yonghui Law" one by one, so as to clarify the meaning of the legal provisions, and through the form of questions and answers, Analyze the connotation, resolve doubts, and write thirty volumes, which were promulgated in the fourth year of Yonghui.
After that, 500 laws were annotated sentence by sentence and attached to the laws, called Shuyi. The law and the book have the same legal effect, and are collectively known as the "Yonghui Law Book". It is a representative work of the Tang Dynasty code. Later generations also called it "Tang Lun Lun". This is the most influential feudal code in Chinese history.
Study on the earliest and most complete legal code - "Tang Code"
"Tang Code Brief Theory" (30 volumes) was compiled by Sun Changwuji of the Tang Dynasty on the order of the emperor.
It is the earliest and most complete code of law in existence in China.
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The legal provisions in "Tang Code" reflect the legal status and relationships of various classes and strata in the Tang Dynasty, as well as some political and economic systems. This is an important document for studying the history of the Tang Dynasty.
"Tang Law Theory" summarizes the legislative experience and judicial practice of the past dynasties, balancing the gains and losses, making it systematic and detailed. Therefore, its legislation is more prudent, the content is more thorough, the items are more concise, and the explanations are more accurate. Its legislative theory is based on Confucianism and feudal ethics as its legal ideological foundation. Therefore, it is the main tool for maintaining the feudal economic foundation and its superstructure and adjusting the relationships in all aspects of society. It was the blueprint for later criminal law.
Through the frequent exchanges and cultural exchanges between the Tang Dynasty and neighboring countries, the laws of the Tang Dynasty also had a huge impact on the codes of ancient Asian countries. In ancient times, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and other countries mostly copied Tang laws. Scholars of international legal history compare Tang law with European Roman law and regard it as a representative work of the ancient "Chinese (Chinese) legal system".
The oldest existing versions of "Tang Lu Yi Shu" include the Song Dynasty fragmentary edition collected by the Shanghai Library, the Song Dynasty fragmentary edition collected by the Beijing Library, and the Yuan Dynasty edition collected by Gu Xizhai, Wuxian County. In the eleventh year of the Yuan Dynasty (1351), a printed copy was installed in Chonghua. Among the documents unearthed in Dunhuang and Turpan, there is a fragment of the Tang Dynasty book "Book of Laws" (see color illustration page 49). In Japan, there are also many types of ancient manuscripts and engravings, such as the official edition of Bunka 2nd Year (1805).
In 1983, Zhonghua Book Company published Liu's "Annotations on Tang Code". The proofreader used Han Fenlou's "Xizhai Engraved Edition" as the base, and participated in the proofreading of other versions, making detailed proofreading notes. In addition, the "Tang Code" without the Song edition has also been photocopied and distributed by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House.
Baidu Encyclopedia - A Brief Discussion of Tang Law