Why did ancient dynasties rarely live longer than 300 years?

The lifespan of ancient dynasties rarely exceeded three hundred years and is a very unique phenomenon in history. The reason for this is none other than the following three reasonsThe first is related to the scale of population reproduction and multiplication, the second is related to the inheritance and relationship of the emperor, and the third is related to the replacement of the old and new ruling system and order.

1. After 300 years of reproduction and growth, the population of a country will often reach a very large number, and in the context of a long-term lag in the conditions of productivity, it will often lead to serious existential crises such as food shortages, induce turbulence, and endanger the survival of the dynasty.

The rise and fall of ancient dynasties is often closely related to the number of people. In any dynasty, if the population continues to multiply and multiply after nearly 300 years of peace and prosperity, it will often reach an extremely large number. In ancient times, the level of productivity lagged behind, and the increase in land and grain production often could not keep pace with the increase in population, which gradually produced food shortages, induced chaos, and led to the demise of the dynasty.

2. In any dynasty, after nearly 300 years of imperial succession, the emperor's ability and level of governance often degraded, and even a large number of faint tyrants appeared, leading to the decline of the dynasty

Ancient dynasties often have a distinctive feature, the founding kings and the emperors at the beginning of the founding of the country are often more capable and high-level, and most of them are virtuous kings. The longer the country has been established, the level of the emperor's ability tends to show a significant downward trend. It is not excluded that there is a special phenomenon of "the master of ZTE", but the special case cannot represent the whole.

After nearly three hundred years of succession, the more time passes, the greater the proportion of tyrannical kings, leading to the collapse of the dynasty.

3. The ruling order and system of any dynasty, after nearly 300 years of long-term use, will often be full of drawbacks and seriously lag behind the development of the actual situation.

At the beginning of the establishment of ancient dynasties, a complete and feasible ruling order and system would be established according to the situation at that time. However, after 300 years of migration, it often lags seriously behind the development of the situation, and if it is not radically renovated and rebuilt, it often leads to the collapse of the dynasty.

For these three reasons, ancient dynasties often struggled to survive three hundred years.

Like the well-known Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, these dynasties have a history of about 300 years, while the Han Dynasty has a history of more than 400 years, which is formed under the political, economic, military and other aspects of the Han Dynasty.

This mainly involves their finances, and their economic development is relatively good, which can naturally make the country very stable.

It is because this kind of dynasty belongs to the feudal dynasty, which is divided into ** and local, and the overall ruling and management mode is relatively centralized.

In the pre-Qin era, the lifespans of the three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou were very long, one was about 400 years, one was about 600 years, and the last was about 800 years. But since the Qin Dynasty unified the world and China entered the feudal era, the lifespan of each dynasty rarely exceeded 300 years. Since the beginning of feudalism, whenever a dynasty is established, its rulers tend to learn the lessons of the previous dynasty, make great efforts, redistribute land resources, pay attention to production, and the population has begun to grow rapidly.

With the passage of time, the class gradually solidified, the land annexation became more and more serious, and the population increased rapidly in peacetime, resulting in the prominent contradiction between man and land. As the people at the bottom have less and less land, while the people at the top have more and more land. As the exploitation of the people at the bottom by the top nobles intensified, more and more people at the bottom began to be unable to eat, and discontent also grew.

As discontent accumulates, as long as a fuse such as a natural disaster or an invasion by a foreign enemy appears, the contradictions of the whole society will inevitably explode in an all-round way. At this time, as long as the people in one place can't bear it and rise up, people with the same experience everywhere will respond in droves. Some powerful careerists will take advantage of this to intervene and use the peasant uprising to develop their own strength.

After years of war, the population is large**, the land is enough to feed the people, and the victorious side will establish a new dynasty, which will become the beginning of a new cycle. It can be seen from this that the problems of limited productivity and land annexation cannot be solved, and the various feudal dynasties will have a crisis after about a hundred years, and if there is a virtuous emperor at this time, then there will be a prosperous world, otherwise the contradiction will be out of control. All in all, limited by the productive forces and land annexation, as well as the special system of feudal society, it is difficult for a dynasty to live longer than three hundred years.