This book is the result of the author’s many years of teaching in the history of Chinese legal thought, and the insights of predecessors and scholars in this field. In the process of constructing this book, different from the usual compilation of textbooks of the history of Chinese legal thought that follows the order of historical development, it selects eight aspects involved in the development of the history of Chinese legal thought, and discusses each aspect vertically and horizontally, striving to summarize the profound implications of the topics with simple language and abundant literature. These eight special topics include Taoism in the Vessel, the Combination of Ritual and Law, Virtue Supplemented by Punishment, No Litigation, Confucianism on the Outside and Law on the Inside, Similarities in the Structures of Family and State, Commenting the Laws by Confucian Classics, and the Introduction of Western Law.