China's extended family is decreasing now. what do you think?

As a product of the agricultural era, the emergence of clans is fundamentally caused by the poor flow of population supported by the low level of science and technology. Without extensive population mobility, there can be no extensive transnational, inter-provincial, inter-county and even inter-village division of labor and cooperation. Of course, there is no economic globalization/nationalization/province-wide/county-wide. This is why self-sufficiency is always accompanied by natural economy. Natural economy, there is no way to cross-regional division of labor and cooperation, so it can only be self-sufficient.

In other words, clan, as a product of isolation and isolation, is actually a collection of families, enterprises and governments. Therefore, their fathers not only have the authority of consanguinity, but also the leaders of political entities and production units, holding the power of economic administration and justice, and being further deified because of the unique ancestor worship in agricultural society. Under the background that the level of economic nationalization is not high, but the village economy is vivid, the central government can only admit the fait accompli.

Similarly, the high-speed flow of people in modern society is obviously not the ideal soil for clan generation. When agricultural machinery liberated the powerful labor force, diesel locomotives full of farmers went to work in cities, cheap goods produced by machinery flooded rural market towns, and even lynching business was dug into the corner by urban professional underworld and transnational drug lords, it was natural for clans to make way for companies, workplaces and the central government.