Limitations of the Ancient Chinese Supervision System

Everything has the characteristics of two sides, and the characteristics of the ancient Chinese supervision system are also the same. Then summarize its characteristics in two aspects.

1. Characteristics of positivity:

1. Directly responsible for the high efficiency of the independent system. Since the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, supervision has formed an independent body, acting as the emperor's eyes and ears and the people. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, this system was more perfect, and the system of three provinces and six ministries was more clear to ensure the rights and responsibilities of the inspection team, and was responsible for the first time.

2. The reward and punishment system is relatively strict and fair. This depends very much on the emperor's ability to govern pro-government, and if a good emperor is in charge, then the superiority of such strictness and fairness will be obvious.

3. Controlling the heavy with light, reflecting that "supervision" is not interfered with by power, reasonable and stable. The policy of inferiority, weight, reward, and heavy punishment was adopted for supervisors, and the low-ranking supervisors were given the power to supervise higher-ranking officials. In this way, the impartiality of supervision is avoided, and the high-ranking power of the supervision department is prevented from favoritism and irregularities.

2. Negative characteristics:

This is because the supervision system was established to serve the "imperial power", maintain the ruling order, and ensure the normal operation of the state apparatus. Therefore, the performance of the state's "supervision" is too much affected by the emperor's personal ability. If it is a knowledgeable and wise emperor who is in power, then this system is very superior.

It is the main responsibility of ancient Chinese supervisory institutions and supervisors to supervise the implementation of laws and decrees, maintain the unity of national laws and decrees, and participate in and supervise the trial activities of major cases by local judicial organs, which are required in any era. The fairness and rationality proposed in the supervision system in ancient China.

Stability, rigor, efficiency, humanization and other ideas are all worthy of reference, not to mention whether the ancient Chinese system is really achieved, but to put forward such a principle is worthy of inheritance and development by future generations. Today, the methods that can achieve the above traditional ideas must be guaranteed by democratic elections, decentralization, people's supervision, strengthening ideological education, and strict rewards and punishments.

1. The supervisory organs and the supervisory power gradually became independent, and became an independent force in the hands of the feudal emperor to restrain the administrative, judicial, military and other departments and their officials.

2. The supervision authority is increasingly concentrated in the emperor.

3. The supervision organization system has been continuously improved and systematized.

4. The scope and scope of supervision are constantly expanding.