The Property Punishment Systemof Song Dynasty Officials

The property punishment systemof officials was a special concept in Ancien China’s Legal Culture. Specific to the Song Dynasty,use property punishment to punish officials was an important part of its official punishment system. Song Dynasty Officials’ property punishment mainly included three kinds:penalty copper, penalty pension and FaZhi. Their own concepts, implementation modalities, applicable to the case are different but got some contact. The emergence and development of Song Dynasty Officials’property punishment system had its own variety of reasons, the actual use of the system had advantages and disadvantages. According this, This article will be divided into seven sections:the first part will explain the concept of the property punishment of officials;the second part will brief Song Dynasty official penalties and administrative sanctions system;the third to fifth part will respectively expound three typical property punishment of song dynasty officials;the last part will analyze the reason why a large number of Officials’property punishment appear in Song Dynasty and take a brief appraisal for it.