2014•Journal of Heilongjiang Administrative Cadre College of Politics and LawRequires access
The Changes of Chinese Revenge Ethics During the Period from Pre-Qin to Han Dynasties
Wang Si-ji
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Abstract
The basis of revenge is the ethics of loyalty and filial piety in Western Zhou Dynasty. One man's revenge against the enemies who has offended his father or lord will be recognized as a behavior of practicing loyalty and filial piety and will honor him undoubtedly. The Chinese revenge ethics changed significantly during the period from Pre-Qin to Han Dynasties,which became from absolutism to relativism,and from family standard to state standard. It is more and more emphaticly that loyalty is higher than filial piety,and the revenges against emperors were forbidden strictly. These changes are the results of the establishment of unified centralization government,the development of national legal system,and the contendings of Confucian classical scholarism in Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties.