This type of dehumanizing thinking is evident in such early texts as Spring and The flourishing of Confucian thought in the Han dynasty led to the concrete manifestation in law of the humanistic ideas of Confucius and Mencius. Life began to gain statutory respect.
漢代儒家興起，將孔孟重人的傳統具體帶進法律，使生命本身的意義獲得法律上的尊重。