Why did ancient farmers in China live in poverty?

1. Basic characteristics of ancient agricultural economy in China

(1) From the perspective of economic structure, the characteristics of ancient agricultural economy in China were mainly planting, supplemented by family feeding.

(2) From the perspective of productivity development, it is one of the characteristics of ancient agricultural economy in China to borrow from Niu Geng, constantly improve production tools and technologies, and make intensive agricultural production methods more and more perfect.

(3) From the mode of production, the basic mode of agricultural production in China feudal society was a self-sufficient natural economy which was a combination of family, agriculture and cottage industry.

(4) From the perspective of land ownership: private ownership of land dominated by landlord land ownership.

(5) According to the change of the development area, the economic center of ancient China experienced a shift from north to south.

Extended data

Characteristics of small-scale peasant economy:

(1) Take the family as the basic unit of production and life, and cultivate intensively.

(2) the combination of agriculture and cottage industry, "men plow and women weave".

(3) Production mainly meets the basic needs of one's own life and pays taxes, and belongs to a self-sufficient natural economy.

(4) Small-scale, low-level, scattered, vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Agriculture