On the Influence of the Taoist Legal Thought on Chinese Traditional Legal Culture Patterns

As one of the pillars of Chinese traditional legal culture,Taoist legal thought has indirect,invisible,intangible and notional effects.The generation of the Taoist legal thought has either direct or indirect relations with such factors as social and historic environment,personal experience of the founder,and geographic culture.Its advocacy about the philosophy of Dao compliant with nature and legal spirit,not only has an extensive and far-reaching effects on the pattern of Chinese traditional legal culture,such as the legal concept,legal characteristics,legal principles,legal aesthetic views and legal appeals,but also has great reference value for nowadays legislative ideas,legal transplantation,construction of ecological law and law researches.