How Chinese feudal society was formed

The feudal society is a social state in which the feudal system is implemented.

Feudal society is a social system defined by the feudal system. Under this system, the king granted fiefs to various feudal lords, and the feudal lords owed allegiance to the king, thus forming a pyramidal state governance structure. According to factors such as the size of the lord's fiefdom and family status, the king conferred the titles of duke, marquis, earl, male, and viscount.

A society in which the landlord class becomes the ruling class is a feudal society, and the contradiction between the landlord class and the peasant class is the main contradiction in feudal society. The natural economy formed by feudal society is an economic structure based on land, combining agriculture with handicrafts, taking the family as the unit of production, and having self-isolation and independence to meet its own needs. In feudal society, the feudal land ownership system was the basis for the landlord class to rule over other classes.

The feudal ideology of feudal society:

There was often a fairly pronounced class system in feudal societies, but the relationship between them was not so perfect, and usually the lord's knight would no longer be loyal to the king, hence the famous saying "A vassal of my hungry spine, not a vassal of mine". However, what can maintain this ruling structure for a long time is the ideological concept of feudal society: it is usually based on the "great power of the monarch" as the skeleton, and some ideas that are beneficial to the ruling class are integrated and converged.

Difference Between Feudal Society and Capitalism:

1. Degree of development.

The tenancy system under the conditions of feudal society was a product of the self-sufficient natural economy and was subordinate to the natural economy; Under capitalism, the employment system is a product of the highly developed commodity economy, and there is an essential difference between the two.

2. The difference in the ownership of the means of production.

The landlord class in feudal society owns the main means of production - land, and the laborers themselves have freedom in feudal society, but they have no means of production, and they must work or rent land for the landlord in order to achieve the purpose of survival; In capitalist society, the main means of production are changed from land to capital, and workers are hired without any means of production, and they are forced to sell their labor power to become commodities, and capitalists extract the surplus value of workers, so workers are called proletariats.

3. The main contradiction in society.

Landlords and peasants, capitalists and workers. The transformation of class contradictions is the main difference observed from the point of view of the movement of contradictions.

4. Different forms of labor.

In feudal society, peasants rented landlords' land and used a small amount of means of production in their hands to carry out relatively independent individual agricultural production and cottage industry labor. Under the capitalist system, the workers do not have any means of production, so the capitalists supply the plant, machinery and other equipment, and carry out collective and cooperative labor under the conditions of large-scale machine production.

5. The products produced go to different destinations.

Feudal society belongs to the natural economic form of underdeveloped commodity economy, and the labor products produced by the peasants are mainly used to pay taxes paid by the feudal state and the landlord class, and the rest is used for self-consumption, and has not been transformed into commodities on a large scale, nor has it entered the process of the original accumulation of capital. Under the capitalist employment system, the products produced by the workers are mainly transformed into commodities and circulated in the market, serving the capitalists to earn profits and reaccumulate capital.

Encyclopedia - Capitalism.

The key to the nature of the social system is to look at the social productive forces and production relations. The most critical basis for saying that the Qin Dynasty was a feudal society from the beginning to the end of the Qing Dynasty was that the landlord class owned the land at that time, and it was a system of private ownership of land. It was gradually formed on the basis of the collapse of the slave owners' land tenure system, or in the process of the collapse of the communal land ownership system in the village community.

The basic characteristics are: the land is occupied by the feudal lords, it is leased or distributed to the peasants for cultivation, and the peasants are subjected to economic exploitation and supra-economic coercion through the collection of land rent; The peasants had no or only a small amount of land, had to rent the landlord's land, and had varying degrees of personal dependence on the landlord. The feudal land ownership system is the economic foundation of the feudal system, the root cause of the peasants' economic exploitation and political oppression, and the fundamental reason for the slow and stagnant development of the productive forces in feudal society.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the commodity economy and the local petty bourgeoisie began to rise to the top, and at the same time the imperialist powers forcibly opened the door of China and brought some of the capitalist system into China, so the feudal system began to disintegrate...

Why do you think that Qin was feudal after that?

In fact, it is very simple, the meaning of feudalism is to be sealed and then built. In fact, in Chinese history, after the rebellion of the Nine Kings of the Han Dynasty, it was only sealed and not built.

To seal is to seal the candidates, and to build is to build the country, which does not refer to the country, but to the construction of his territory.

However, according to Marxism-Leninism, slavery, feudalism, and capital, China's feudal system is naturally regarded as a kind of feudal system. As for why some say it starts with a week, some say it doesn't start with a week. This is because the concept is clear, but the reality is not.

Zhou was also feudal, but at the same time Zhou also had slaves. Some listed Zhou as a slave on this basis, but not as a feudal. It's like the later two thousand years of sealing but not building.

This phenomenon is not only found in the definition of feudal China in many places. It's like the definition of socialism, are we really socialism in the strict sense of the word?

In a broad sense, feudal society was defined by Marx as a social form based on the exploitation of the peasants by the landlord class, as was the case in medieval Europe and China from 475 BC to 1840 AD.

The first in China.

The dynasty is Xia It was a slave country, and the "family world" began with the establishment of the Xia Dynasty.

The beginning and end of Chinese feudal society:

During the Warring States Period, Rong was the embryonic stage of feudal society, and the feudal society was finally determined during the reign of Qin Shi Huang. The Opium War of 1840 turned Chinese society into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 finally collapsed feudal society. In 1949, the People's Republic of China was founded, and feudal society came to an end.

In 1956, China entered socialism.