Why did the feudal system in China last for thousands of years?

Because the feudal system in the East was based on centralization, the emperor could maintain his rule in any way. This is very different from the west. Influenced by the democratic city-states in ancient Greece, western feudalism emphasized democratic rights more. In addition, the feudal regime in the west was mainly established through the system of enfeoffment, and there is a famous saying called? My client's client, not my client? . This sentence reveals the western political system, and political power is not highly concentrated. So these two different traditions lead to political differences between the East and the West, that is, democracy in the West and autocracy in the East. It is conceivable that autocracy can better safeguard the interests of the ruling class and is more conducive to the ruling class.

Therefore, the feudal society in the East is obviously longer than that in the West. In addition, the definition of feudal society in the East and the West, especially in China, did not agree with the West before the emergence of Marxist historiography. China's feudalism is the system of enfeoffment, so before Guo Moruo put forward the theory of feudalism in the Warring States, China historians believed that the feudal society should start from the Western Zhou Dynasty. Of course, from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present, there have been many differences about the time when China's feudal society was established, such as the two feudal viewpoints of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period mentioned above, and the feudal viewpoints of the Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Sui, Tang and even Song Dynasties.

The view that China's feudal society lasted for about 2,500 years was actually influenced by Guo Moruo's feudalism during the Warring States Period. Because after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guo Moruo was responsible for compiling China history textbooks, so he wrote his own views, which made many people think that feudalism in the Warring States was the truth. In fact, it still has many untenable places. A little off topic. In a word, my opinion is that the feudal society in China can last so long. On the one hand, China gave birth to advanced culture first. On the other hand, the autocratic system determines that it can be maintained with the intention of the ruling class.

Finally, I want to apologize for the Four Books and Five Classics. I don't deny that the so-called Confucianism (in fact, the spiritual pillar on which this feudal society depends is not the whole of Confucius' Confucianism, but it has been modified by the ruling class) has indeed curbed people's ideological progress, but it is also a victim and has been used by the ruling class rather than his original intention.