Introduction: Freedom of Contract Under Ethical Justice

When it comes to researches on ancient Chinese contractual culture, ethical justice can be anything but ignored. Any organic society relies on related both inside and outside binding force. In Chinese traditional society, the most important binding bonds were ethics and contracts. Ethics comprises the internal motivation of contracts while contract is the external manifestation of ethics, which not only constituted the nature of Chinese traditional society but also served as the means to achieve its existence and development.