What trend of the development of feudal rule in China is illustrated by the initiatives of the Ming and Qing dynasties

The Ming and Qing initiatives illustrate the trend of development of feudal rule in China: a gradual decline.

Feudal system:

It is a social system that emerged during the Western Zhou period in China and during the Middle Ages in Western Europe, based on a hierarchical division of the aristocratic ruling class into tiers and possession of wealth such as land and peasants (or serfs). Its basic forms were the feudal hierarchy and the manorial system. Peasants (or serfs) cultivated the landowner's land the vast majority of the products paid to the feudal lord. The superstructure was mainly a feudal state characterized by hierarchy. The dominant ideology was characterized by the maintenance of the feudal system and feudal hierarchy and the promotion of traditional morality. Under the feudal system, the basic classes of society were the feudal lords and the peasant (or serf) class.

China's feudal system was formally formed in the 11th century B.C. and ended after the Qin Dynasty unified the Six Kingdoms, that is, it began with the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty and ended with the Qin's unification of the Six Kingdoms.

China's authoritarian centralized system (referring to the political system, the economic system of private ownership of land to begin in the Warring States period and end in the land reform.) It officially began in 221 BC and ended in 1911 AD. That is, it began with the establishment of the Qin Dynasty and ended with the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

Feudal society can be divided into five stages:

I. The Warring States period, the Qin Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty were the stages of the formation and initial development of feudal society.

Two, the Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasties, and the North and South Dynasties, were the stages of the division of the feudal state and the great fusion of peoples.

Third, the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties period was the prosperous stage of feudal society.

Fourth, Liao, Song, Xia, Jin, and Yuan, was a stage of further national integration and continued development of the feudal economy.

Fifth, Ming and Qing (before the Opium War), was the stage of consolidation of the unified multi-ethnic state and the gradual decline of the feudal system.

The centralized system of power in the Ming and Qing dynasties: strengthening (or peaking)

The early Ming divided the power of the prime minister into six ministries, set up factories and guards and three departments, and adopted the eight-study system for the selection of scholars. The former Qing dynasty followed the Ming system, set up additional military and military affairs offices, and organized a large number of literal prisons. Characterized by the decentralization of the power of the prime minister and the power of the local governors, to strengthen the power of the emperor, and at the same time to strengthen the ideological control. The strengthening of the centralized system of authoritarianism in the Ming and Qing dynasties shows the decline of the feudal system.