晚清修律对封建正统法律思想的改易

The Modification of Laws in the Late Qing Dynasty ── A Change in defiance of the Feudal Legal Conventions

自汉朝以来，以儒家法律思想为主的封建正统法律思想在中国法律史上一直处于独尊独尚的地位。然而，清廷统治的最后十年，一场史无前例的变法修律，却首开吸收西方资产阶级法律思想入律之先河，第一次对封建正统法律思想的根本原则，基本内容等进行了突破、改易。尽管这些突破是有限的，但它足以表明晚清修律终于结束了两千多年来封建正统法律思想的垄断统治，终于使中国古代法律冲破了旧的樊篱，迈上了近现代型的历史轨道，为新的法律思想的发展完善开拓出了广阔的空间。

Since the Han Dynasty the Legal system in China had been exclusively dominated by the feudal legal conventions which chiefly embodied the Confucianist legal ideas.During the last decde of the Qing Dynasty, however, an uprecedented conintutional reformand legal revision in which a precedent was set by introducing Western bourgeois legal ideasinto Chinese lawmaking made a breakthrough in defiance of the basic principles and contentof the feudal legal conventions. Although the breakthrough was limited, it fully demonstratedthat the legal revision, by breaking me old barriers of the ancient Chinese legal system,finally terminated the exclusive domination by the feudal legal conventions which bed fatalfor 2, 000 Years and brought the Chinese legal system onto the late and modern historicaltrack, thus opening up a new and boundless vista for the evolvement and promotion ofmodem legal ideas.