Origin of Oppresive Officials in the Han Dynasty

Oppressive officials are a type of officials popular in the Han Dynasty,whose rise and fall is closely related to the development of law culture at that time.Accordingly,the study of oppresive officials in the Han Dynasty is of great value in the analysis of its law culture,illustrating that the blending of Confucianists and the Legalists is the inevitable trend in the development of Chinese traditional law culture.There are many reasons for the appearance of oppresive officials.This paper tries to trace out the background of the appearance of oppresive officials from the perspective of ideology and institutional assurance,expounds the continuity of legalist school after the Qin Dynasty,as well as its effect on the traditional law culture.