Abstract:

As an objective cultural phenomenon, plagiarism has a long history in ancient China. In this paper, the
authors described the origin and development of plagiarism in chronological order and made an in-depth analysis on ancient
Chinese people’ s attitudes to plagiarism. On this basis, the paper argued that plagiarism is one of the important factors
that gave birth to the copyright relations in ancient China, as well as writing cheating, faking and pirating.