Kaihuang Code of the Sui

Timeline

1. 580–581Daxingcheng · ShaanxiAfter ascending the throne, Emperor Wen ordered Gao Jiong, Su Wei, and others to consult the Northern Qi Code and old Northern Zhou institutions, deleting cruel punishment articles and condensing the legal text into twelve sections and five hundred articles, forming the draft of the Kaihuang Code.
2. 581Daxingcheng · ShaanxiIn the first year of Kaihuang the Kaihuang Code was formally promulgated, establishing the framework of the parallel codified system of lü, ling, ge, and shi, abolishing the laws of Liang, Chen, Qi, and Zhou, and achieving the unification of northern and southern legal systems.
3. 582–600Territory of the Sui Empire · ChinaThe Kaihuang Code served as the basic legal code in the early Sui; its Ten Abominations, Eight Deliberations, and articles on degrees of punishment became the direct source of the later Tang Code, and also influenced legal codification on the Korean peninsula and in Japan.