In the Jian Excavated from Han Dynasty's Graves in Zhangjia Mountain, there contain abundant legal thoughts. The historical materials prove that the law at the beginning of Han Dynasty exerts itself on the maintenance of family ethical order, making the family morality canonized by Confucians become the law, thus it starts the aftertime 'Confucianismof law'. Meanwhile, instructing itself with the legist principle of 'good emperor rules officials rather than civilians', the beginning of Han Dynasty controls the bureaucracy strictly, punishing their crimes with rigorous tortures, putting up an intense inheritance to the Lv in Qin Dynasty. |