The Chenghuang God, also known as City God, local officials belong to the underworld, is the patron saint of ancient Taoism and Chinese folk, to defend and to manage city affairs for the duties, the guardian of one of stability. After the Tang dynasty, Cheng Huang god head shift from natural God into a personal God, entered the underworld, has started trial functions. City God become hell judge, reward good and punish evil. Cheng Huang trial in the traditional society in general belief and worship on the basis of the City God out of the development, with a judicial probe into the gods factors.In traditional society, the vast majority of people that Chenghuang God is real, the stand in the perspective of the ancients, Chenghuang trial divided into real life Chenghuang trial and field of vision of literature under the Chenghuang God trial.In traditional society, the emergence and development of trial can not be separated from the promotion of the rulers and the people’s yearning for fairness and justice.Chenghuang trial to some extent, played a remedy legal defects and deficiencies detected cases difficult, meet people’s need for fairness and justice. Based on the type of traditional society Chenghuang trial classify, analyze, explored in the traditional society, justice and Chenghuang belief combination of this form of trial, to explore ancient people in the heart of belief in the gods of ancient judicial to further deepen Chenghuang belief that scientific and rational understanding, from a side to understand legal culture in traditional society. |