Eight Prohibitions

Jizi

Eight Prohibitions is a criminal law. When Shang dynasty conquered the Korean peninsula and established Gija Joseon, Saint politician Jizi from Shang dynasty enacted this law to educate and strength the Korean people. This law was made up of eight prohibitions regarding etiquette, agriculture, rice farming, sericulture and weaving.

Contents

Although not all of the 8 prohibitions are known, the known part is as follows.^[1]

• If you commit a murder you will be killed and compensate
• If you commit an injury you must compensate with grain.
• If you steal something you will be enslaved.

Relationship between Nobi and Eight prohibitions

Korea’s Nobi system was originated from eight prohibitions. Eight prohibitions prescribed that if someone steal something from others he/she will be enslaved. If that person is man, he will be No(奴) and if it’s woman, she will called as Bi(婢). It means Nobi is brute people who violate eight prohibitions and Yangban is civilized people. Therefore, it is the reason that Yanbang enslaved Korean as thought of the saints Jizi’s purpose to educate them.^[2]

References

External links

• Yukio Takeda. 隋唐帝国と古代朝鮮　世界の歴史6. Chuokoron-Shinsha. ISBN 978-4124034066. 
• Lee Young-hoon. 大韓民国の物語. Bungeishunjū. ISBN 4163703101.