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What ideological impact did the traditional smallholder economy have? Impact in ancient times

The traditional small farm economy has brought about the ideological impact:

One is that small wealth is easy to be satisfied, do not want to make progress. Thirty acres of land, a cow, a wife and children in a hot bed" is the goal of the struggle, bent on enjoying a happy and comfortable life.

The second is the gang, closed and old-fashioned. Guarding their own acreage, has always been self-sufficient, closed themselves, worried about the interests of others robbed, unable to cope with the changes, so often like to engage in clan factions, interest groups, behavior is not in accordance with the system and jurisprudence, but in order to small groups of interests, nepotism, appeasement of treachery.

Three is short-sighted, narrow vision. Focusing on the "head pulling", never "look up the road", do not learn, not willing to absorb new knowledge and new ideas, lack of passion and vitality, become a typical "frog in the bottom of the well".

Fourth is free and loose, lack of compliance with the concept of discipline. Although it is the sunrise, sunset, but after all, small farmers are "their own food themselves", no "nine to five" concept and habits, so there has never been a sense of system, the system, even if there is, in the minds of some people are also virtually non-existent.

The concept of traditional smallholder economy:

The smallholder economy is a natural economy, characterized by decentralization and the fact that the products produced are used for self-consumption or most of them are used for self-consumption instead of commodity exchange, which is a kind of self-sufficient natural economy. The small peasant economy arose in the context of iron plow and oxen plowing during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.

The characteristics of the traditional small-farmer economy:

1) The small-farmer economy was small in scale and humble in condition, lacking the necessary accumulation and reserve capacity, and very weak in resisting natural and man-made disasters.

②As a result of the small scale and simple conditions of the small peasant economy, coupled with the heavy feudal exploitation, agriculture has always maintained a simple reproduction, stubbornly maintaining the natural economic form of self-sufficiency.

③ The decadence of the feudal government rule, the heavy exploitation and the social unrest. In the later stages of feudal dynasties, with the decay of the rule, most peasant families would fall into bankruptcy in the event of disasters and epidemics, and large-scale peasant wars brewed and broke out. With the change of feudal dynasties, some of the fields returned to the peasants, and the feudal dynasties learned their lessons and adjusted their policies, and the small peasant economy began a new cycle.

4 Throughout the ancient Chinese society, natural economy always dominated the Chinese feudal economy. The firm existence of the natural economy was an important reason for the slow development and long-term continuation of the Chinese feudal society.