Palace queen stills
Zhen Xuan's father works in Dali Temple, so what kind of institution is Dali Temple?
When you hear the "temple", everyone will definitely think of it. When I was a child, I heard Dali Temple and thought it was built in Dali, Yunnan (harm! This is not a loss of culture! In fact, this temple has nothing to do with temples.
"Temple" has been pointed out as early as in Hanshu: where the imperial court is located, it is called a temple. Broadly speaking, all the yamen established by the imperial court are called "temples". To put it bluntly, the "temple" belongs to the state institutions.
Dali Temple, equivalent to the modern Supreme Court, was not called "Tingwei" in Qin and Han Dynasties. Ting Wei has one supervisor, left supervisor and right supervisor, who is responsible for assisting Ting Wei in handling criminal cases all over the country. It was one of the "three fairs" and was definitely a powerful figure at that time.
During the Northern Dynasties, the Northern Qi Dynasty changed the original post of Tingwei to Dali Temple. Since then, Dali Temple has become one of the three judicial centers in China, together with the Ministry of Punishment and Yushitai. The highest leader of Dali Temple is Dali Temple Qing, who belongs to the official rank of the official rank. In addition, there are Dali Temple Cheng, Dali Temple, that is, his father and other official positions. It seems that the official position of Zhenyuan Dao is still quite large.
Palace queen stills
After Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the "prime minister system", six ministers were directly responsible to the emperor. And the power of the six ministers began to expand further. At that time, there was such a jingle: the department is in charge, the hospital is watching, the temple is in charge, and the prison is a handyman.
Zhu Yuanzhang
This sentence shows how severe the punishment was at that time. However, at that time, the power of Dali Temple was not as good as that of punishments. What's the difference between punishments and Dali Temple?
In the Ming Dynasty, the ministers of punishments were second-class, while those of Dali Temple were third-class, which was obviously not the same level. Then there is Dali Temple, which belongs to the judicial organs and the punishment belongs to the supervisory organs. In fact, there is no direct subordinate relationship between the two, so it is not easy to compare them. Generally speaking, prisoners are interrogated by the Ministry of Punishment, and finally examined by Dali Temple, for fear that it is unfair for one family to dominate.
During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Dashi Temple changed Dali Temple into Dali Courtyard, imitating the practice of judicial independence in the West, and made it clear that its functions and powers were to interpret laws, supervise trials at all levels and be the highest judicial organ.
In the middle of the Republic of China, influenced by the west, Dali Temple was renamed the Supreme Court again, and this title is still in use today.
Chen Panda has something to say:
As a vast country, why should it always be influenced by the West? It's not nice to call Dali Temple!