The object of libel in ancient China referred to the emperor and bureaucracies and later its connotation was gradually expanded to civilians not in the Sui or Tang Dynasty but in the Modern society when China entered.

• 古代诽谤罪所指的对象始终是帝王官吏,其含义逐渐扩大到适用于平民百姓的变化,不是在隋唐以后,而是在中国进入近代社会之后。