秦代的法律以残酷著称,但同时也是封建法制的基础和开端。从刑罚制度的发展上看,奴隶制五刑是奴隶社会时期的刑罚制度,这一时期的刑罚制度尽管相对残酷与野蛮,但作为文明社会的发展,避免了刑罚的过度滥用,具有进步意义。 The law of the Qin Dynasty was known as cruelty, but it was also the foundation and beginning of the feudal legal system. Judging from the development of the penalty system, the five penalty of slavery is the punishment system in slave society. Although the punishment system in this period is relatively brutal and brutal, as the development of civilized society, it avoids the excessive abuse of penalty and has the significance of progress.