漢代의 赦令考 = About "the Act of Mercy" of the Han Dynasty

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

There were several types of acts of mercy according to the time when they were put into execution in the Han dynasty era. Those acts of mercy were excuted mostly when the empire held various kinds of royal ceremonies, when they were with blissful events, when they were confronted aggression from alien forces and were in conflicts within their empire, when good omens for their empire appeared and when there happened met대 o'ogic disorders such as diluvians and earthquakes.
There were two different kinds in this act of mercy according to area it was executed. one was general pardon, which was executed throughout the empire and the other partial pardon, which came into effect only in provincial areas.
The act of mercy gave convicts various benefections ranging from death-sentence to exemption from death. There were several others such as exemptions from death. There were several others such as exemptions from expiation, labor punishment, and Huan hsi (to send back a convict being exiled in remote area to a place near his home town) as well as the act of mercy itself.
Purpose of act of mercy in that time was inemperor's trying to share good or bad omens with his people from whom emperor wanted to be more cautious of the future of their empire and to renew themselves. when good omens happened in the empire, the emperor regarded those as the heaven-sent bliss which he accepted as to give those convicts his virtue, the act of mercy.
The emperor considered, also, ill omens be outcome of his exacting prison policy and people's cursing prison appealed the heaven, which gave them damnation. Therefore, the emperor, in a way to prevent those ill omens, tried to win the people's favor and to win the favor, he adopted this kind of act of mercy measure.
In conclusion, because the emperor kept vivtuous policy toward his people, there could be, he believed, no damnations from the heaven aod the earth as well. To keep his empire peaceful, he executed this act of mercy.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 序 言
• 1. 皇帝의 諸儀式
• 2. 兵 役
• 3. 嘉 瑞
• 4. 災 異
• 5. 赦令의 法源
• 6. 結 語