What were the basic features of feudal China?

1 Economically, feudal land ownership was dominant. Emperors, nobles, bureaucrats and landlords possessed a large amount of land, while peasants, who accounted for the vast majority of the population, possessed very little land and needed to rent land from landlords to pay high rents, and the contradictions between the feudal landlord class and the peasant class were sharp; the small peasant economy was the basic production structure of feudal society in China, which was characterized by the combination of individual family-based and cottage industries with a subsistence-based natural economy.

2 In politics, the implementation of a highly centralized feudal monarchy. Starting from the establishment of the centralized feudal empire by Emperor Qin Shi Huang, successive rulers continued to strengthen imperial power, which to a certain extent maintained the unity of the multi-ethnic state, but at the same time largely inhibited the vitality and vigor of Chinese feudal society.

3 Culturally, Confucianism was at the center of the ethical and moral norms of the Three Principles and Five Principles, which advocated benevolent government and the rule of the world to help the monarch. Feudal culture stipulated that every move of the people must conform to the behavioral norms set by rituals and laws, and to some extent, it was a shackle that bound the people's freedom of action and thought.

4 In terms of social structure, it was a feudal patriarchal hierarchy combining clan power and regime. The core is the clan patriarchy, the power of the king, the father's right and the husband's right to dominate, this in the social structure was conducive to social stability and the norms of the feudal order, but later increasingly become the shackles of social development and progress.