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What is feudal patriarchal clan system?

Patriarchal clan system means that no matter the country or the family, the country takes the supreme ruler, the king or emperor, as the clan, the eldest son as the legal heir to the throne, the king or emperor as the majority, the eldest son as the small clan, the family as the patriarch and the eldest brother as the second. The significance of patriarchal clan system is similar to the Three Cardinal Principles and the Five Permanent Principles, which means that both the state and the family should have an orderly clan, and it established the basic political and family order in China feudal society.