人们常说:中国人没有法律意识,即使到了今天,也一样。有人一听到中国的法治状况不好,就说是受了传统文化的影响,似乎以前的中国人根本就没有法律意识。但是,据笔者多年来的阅读发现,在明清时期,老百姓对法律并不是我们想象的那样不在意,或者说他们是非常在意法律的。除了官府的法律宣传,民间也很重视法律书籍的编撰和出版明清时期,老百姓在意法律,来自几个方面的因素。在朱元璋时期颁行的《大明律》里,即 People often say: Chinese do not have legal awareness, even today. When one heard that the rule of law in China was not in a good shape, it was said that it was affected by traditional culture. It seems that the previous Chinese did not have any legal awareness at all. However, according to the author’s reading over the years, people found that in the Ming and Qing Dynasties people did not care whether the law was as we imagined or that they were very concerned about the law. In addition to the official propaganda of the government, the private sector attaches great importance to the compilation and publication of legal books in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and people care about the law and come from several aspects. In the Ming dynasty enacted the “Ming dynasty”, that is