人本主义与中国古代诉讼制度

人本主义既是中国传统法律文化的一大特征，也是其内在发展的重要动力。受人本主义的影响，中国在诉讼制度上很早形成了有利于弱势地位百姓诉讼的直诉制度、死刑等重大案件须多次重审制度、被告可以上诉要求重新审理的制度等。这些闪烁着人本主义光辉的诉讼制度不仅起到了减少和避免制造冤假错案和滥杀无辜的可能性，减轻了当事人的身心痛苦，减少了人们的诉讼成本，进而缓和了社会矛盾、促进社会和谐与发展的重要作用，而且因自身形成之早、较为严密规范而在人类诉讼制度史上占有重要一页，是中华法律文化对人类法律制度的一大贡献。

Humanistic and Litigation Systems in Ancient China

Humanistic is a major characteristic of traditional Chinese legal culture, and its major driving force for internal development. Influenced by Humanistic, China has formed the direct appeal system beneficial to the people of the disadvantaged status for proceedings from early litigation system, the system for major cases to be retried, such as death penalty, and the system that the defendant can request a hearing of the appeal. All these systems can not only reduce and avoid the possibility of indiscriminate killing of the innocent, but reduce the physical and psychological pain of the accused, reduce people＇ s litigation costs, and ease social contradictions, and promote social harmony and development. It is a major contribution to human legal system because it is formed early, and has strict norms.