Why did the feudal society in China last so long?

The feudal society in China is a single small-scale peasant economic structure, and the simple agricultural economy is the most stable and least evolved economic structure. Small-scale peasant economy is a self-sufficient family economy, stubbornly resisting the development of commodity production and the progress of science and technology. The labor productivity of a single small-scale peasant economy is extremely low, and it can only maintain simple reproduction.

Therefore, although the small-scale peasant economy has been plundered and annexed, it is still constantly regenerating, so the destruction speed of this economic structure has been very slow, which is an important reason for the long-term continuation of the feudal society in China. Second, political reasons. Mainly, farmers in China have been oppressed and exploited by the feudal centralized autocratic system for a long time, and the economic development has also been suppressed by the autocratic system.

Heavy taxes and corvee exploitation made it difficult for farmers to simply reproduce, and the ruling class's policy of attaching importance to agriculture and restraining business hindered capitalist factors, which made the feudal society in China develop slowly for a long time.

The existence of patriarchal clan system is an important reason for the long-term continuation of feudal society in China. This is related to the social structure of the small-scale peasant economy, and the individual economy produced by one household is the basis of the patriarchal clan system. The rule of clan power and patriarchal clan system is closely combined with the rule of feudal landlord class.

Patriarchal clan system was formed as the social cell of China's feudal society and natural economy, and remained unchanged for a long time. Due to the tenacity of patriarchal clan system, the basic structure of the whole society was maintained very firmly, which led to a very long feudal society in China.

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Feudal thought:

Feudal society often has quite obvious class system, such as the patriarchal clan system in China and the hierarch-king-Lord-jazz system in Western Europe, forming a pyramid-like ruling structure, but the relationship between them is not so perfect. Usually the Lord's jazz will no longer be loyal to the king, so there is a famous saying that "I am a minister, not a minister."

However, this ruling structure can be maintained for a long time, which is the ideology of feudal society: it is usually based on "sovereign power", which combines some ideas that are beneficial to the ruling class and also contains some excellent moral values, the most typical of which is China's "Confucianism".

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