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The history of Chinese legal system is rich in content, covering the main development and change process of traditional legal culture for thousands of years. This textbook divides the development of China's legal system into 12 periods, and cites a large number of documents and historical materials to explain the characteristics of the legal system in each period and its influence on all aspects of China society at that time.

Each chapter has columns such as "learning objectives", "summary of this chapter", "reference cases", "key concepts" and "thinking problems" to help readers outline and strengthen their understanding of the contents of this textbook.

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The actual situation of the penalty system in Xia Dynasty is mostly speculated or speculated by later generations, such as "Xia Houshi is the king of the world, so the five punishments belong to 3,000", "Xia Houshi's five main punishments have 3,000 subjects", "200 emperors, 300 emperors, 500 palaces and 1,000 emperors" and so on.