≪侯馬盟書≫記錄所見春秋時期法制

Abstract

In December 1965, archaeologists in Shanxi Province unearthed a large number of jade and stone tablets with red characters in the eastern suburb of Houma City. According to the archaeological reports, more than five thousand copies of the covenant were unearthed at that time, from which the recognizable 656 items were selected and compiled as Houma Covenant by the Committee of Cultural Relics of Shanxi Province. The excavation of Houma Covenant reinterpreted Zuozhuan’s truthfulness and the Chun-qiu period allied oath system, and made it pnt" of the Chun-qiu period, but they need to be reviewed. If the allied oath of Houma Covenant adopts the notion of a "collecossible to study the legal system changes at that time. The results of the summarized as follows: (1) Some scholars argue that the “book” of the ancient books and the seoju period bronze inscription have the same meaning as the “Covenetive pledge”, the “oath” of the golden text is not an “individual promise” This is because they judge it to be different. (2) The allied oath of Houma Covenant is a product of the rapidly changing political and social processes of the late Chun-qiu period. When the Lord’s Royal House weakened and became no longer able to redeem each nation as a law of propriety, the battle of the regime of the senior minister became fierce and the society tried to secure itself through Houma Covenant. Houma Covenant thus had a stronger binding power than the statutory law of the nation’s era, and became a benchmark for judging the political capacity of the lender. Also, compared to the provisions of the general law, Criminal has chosen a punishment method that is rich in religious colors that “want to be punished in the sky”, and can be considered special. (3) Houma Covenant’s statutory provisions played a significant role in the transition of the Xizhou period patriarchal clan system to the law system of the national and Qin dynasties, and to convert them to the rule of law system. In the age of the nation, when the Allied auth clause was violated, its binding power weakened and it became a decline. After the conversion of the Qin Dynasty into the rule of law, this system also ended in history.