What is the basic mode of production in China's ancient traditional society?

From the dominant aspect and development direction, the main feature of Chinese traditional agricultural technology is intensive cultivation. Intensive cultivation is the modern people's summary of the essence of ancient traditional agriculture in China. It refers to the agricultural production technology system in which more means of production or labor are invested in a certain area of land and advanced technical measures (such as innovation of production tools, irrigation and fertilization technology, etc.) are adopted. ), and intensive cultivation, in order to increase the yield per unit area, increase the total output. It emphasizes intensive cultivation, planting less and harvesting more, which is a great creation of ancient farmers in China and lays an important foundation for the continuous and uninterrupted development of Chinese civilization.

The policy of "emphasizing agriculture and restraining commerce" is the product of the feudal natural economic development and autocratic centralization in ancient China. Its implementation played a positive role in the stability of the country, the consolidation of the emerging landlord class regime and the social and economic development in the early feudal society, which should be affirmed. However, this policy opposes industry and commerce and suppresses agriculture, which will inevitably hinder the development of commodity economy and keep agriculture at a low level of natural economy for a long time. Its disadvantages were more serious in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which hindered the growth of capitalism, and was one of the important reasons why China fell behind the world.