An Interpretation of Conciliation of Court from a Cultural Perspective

The conciliation of court plays a very important role in the civil action of our country, and it is the main way in which the civil jurisdiction of court is applied. It had a significant and practicable value in the history. On the other hand, its disadvantages are increasingly embodied with the change of social conditions which are brought by the opening-up policy. Even so, the leading position of the conciliation of court has not been changed correspondingly. One important reason is that people's legal conceptions are deeply influenced by the traditional culture. One typical characteristic of the Chinese ancient culture is emphasizing on harmony, which determines the ancient Chinese's attitudes to action and the emergence of legal conceptions such as "no suits".These conceptions have a widespread and profound influence on judicature.