Characteristics of China's feudal social and political system

Characteristics of China's feudal social and political system

1. Sovereign despotism

(1) The system of life in the throne and hereditary system. The lifelong system of the throne runs through the principle of patriarchal clan system and embodies the inalienable nature of imperial power. The hereditary system of the throne shows the inalienable nature of imperial power.

(2) The imperial power is unconstrained and not supervised. Since the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, it has integrated legislative power, executive power and judicial power, which embodies the principle that everything in the world is decided by the top.

2. Centralized system

The most fundamental feature of centralization is that local governments are not independent politically, economically, militarily and culturally, and must strictly obey the central decrees. The main performances are:

(1) "Domestic counties are counties with unified laws and regulations". Counties have no legislative power.

(2) Under the county system, the power to appoint and transfer local officials belongs to the central government, and local governors must be responsible to the central government.

(3) As far as the development trend of the relationship between the central and local governments is concerned, local governments have no autonomy in judicial, financial and military aspects and must obey the central government.

(4) Local governments must accept the supervision of the central government.

Characteristics of China's feudal social and political system

1. Sovereign despotism

(1) The system of life in the throne and hereditary system. The lifelong system of the throne runs through the principle of patriarchal clan system and embodies the inalienable nature of imperial power. The hereditary system of the throne shows the inalienable nature of imperial power.

(2) The imperial power is unconstrained and not supervised. Since the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, it has integrated legislative power, executive power and judicial power, which embodies the principle that everything in the world is decided by the top.

2. Centralized system

The most fundamental feature of centralization is that local governments are not independent politically, economically, militarily and culturally, and must strictly obey the central decrees. The main performances are:

(1) "Domestic counties are counties with unified laws and regulations". Counties have no legislative power.

(2) Under the county system, the power to appoint and transfer local officials belongs to the central government, and local governors must be responsible to the central government.

(3) As far as the development trend of the relationship between the central and local governments is concerned, local governments have no autonomy in judicial, financial and military aspects and must obey the central government.

(4) Local governments must accept the supervision of the central government.

3. bureaucracy

It is a derivative of China's absolutism, and its main features are:

(1) Officials are appointed for the monarch, which endows bureaucracy with a strong color of rule by man.

(2) Although China bureaucracy has a perfect system of selecting officials, it is closed in the aspects of selecting officials' objects, contents, methods and procedures.

(3) "Officials have no feudalism, but officials have feudalism", which endows bureaucrats with corruption.