The Socio-Political Structure on which Chinese History and Culture Depend

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The socio-political structure on which Chinese culture depends

The development history of a nation's culture is not only constrained by the specific geographic environment, economic situation and external factors, but also the socio-political structure has had a crucial influence on it.

Comparing the development history of several major ancient civilizations in the world, the socio-political structure of ancient China has at least the following characteristics: a complete and systematic patriarchal system based on blood relations. Including the system of the first son, the system of the number of temples, the feudal system, etc., from theory to practice, the degree of perfection is incomparable to that of other countries in the world. Secondly, authoritarianism was strict. Since the emergence of the Chinese state, although there have been different rulings of the slave-owning class and the land-owning class, the authoritarianism is the same. In particular, the tyranny of the landlord class not only lasted for a long time, but also tended to be increasingly strengthened. In the long course of history, the combination of the inherited authoritarian system and the patriarchal system with a certain warmth of blood, formed a kind of social and political structure of "family and country together", and this social and political structure profoundly influenced Chinese culture, including the dominant ideology, history, literature, art, folklore and even science and technology, and so on. etc. Therefore, understanding the traditional Chinese socio-political structure has become an important aspect of understanding the characteristics of Chinese culture.