People often say that ancient society was a patriarchal society, so what is a patriarchal society?

Patriarchal society refers to the social appellation under the patriarchal system, which evolved from the patriarchal system and feudal system. The patriarchal clan system evolved from the patriarchal clan system, which is a system in which the royal family and nobles distribute state power according to blood relationship in order to establish hereditary rule. It is characterized by the combination of clan organization and state organization, and the patriarchal hierarchy is completely consistent with the political hierarchy. This system was established in Xia Dynasty, developed in Shang Dynasty and perfected in Zhou Dynasty. Patriarchal system refers to the system of adjusting family relations, which originated from the patriarchal system at the end of clan society. According to the blood relationship, it is divided into big and small clans, emphasizing that the former dominates the latter and the latter obeys the former. Therefore, people in ancient times lived under the ties of paternal blood and followed the clan system derived from paternal clan system, so there were ancient women who followed their fathers at home and married their husbands and died.