中国历史上最早的一次法律变革——春秋成文法的公布及争论

The Earliest Law Transformation in China's History——The Promulgation and Argument of Statutory Law in Spring and Autumn Period

春秋时期,随着生产力水平的提高,生产关系、阶级关系的变化,人文主义精神的诞生以及王权的失坠和霸政的兴起,新兴地主阶级登上了历史舞台。新兴地主阶级将斗争的矛头首先指向以秘密专横为特征的奴隶制法律制度,并将代表封建地主阶级意志的成文法公布于众,从而引发了中国历史上最早的一次法律变革,揭开了中华法系的序幕,在法律制度发展史上具有划时代意义。

In Spring and Autumn Period, with the development of the productive force, the changes of production relations and class relations, the birth of humanism, the decline of monarchical power and the rising of tyrannical power, the newly landlord class begins to mount the stage of history, directs the struggle at the slave law system charactered by secret monopolization and promulgates the statutory law which stands for the willpower of feudal landlord class. Therefore, this led to the earliest law transformation in ancient China times and lifted the curtain of China's law system. In the development of law system, this has epoch-making significance.