China's ancient economy is characterized by

Agriculture is given priority to, and family management is combined with handicraft industry. The contradiction between productive forces and production relations is the fundamental driving force for the development of any society, and productive forces are the most active and revolutionary factors.

The economic base determines the superstructure, and the superstructure reacts on the economic base. China's socio-economic development has always been at the forefront of the world, which has a great influence and contribution to the economic, political and cultural development of Asia and even the world.

Expanding information is not for exchange, but an economic form to meet the needs of producers or economic units (such as clans, feudal manors and peasant families). It is dominant in primitive society, slave society and feudal society.

This economy excludes social division of labor. Every producer or economic unit not only produces the agricultural products he needs, but also produces most of the industrial products he needs. "Men plow and women weave" and "self-sufficiency" are typical portrayal, which is compatible with the low level of social productivity and underdeveloped social division of labor.

The main form of feudal economy in ancient China was landlord system. In this economic form, landlords sublet most of the land to farmers, forming a small-scale agricultural production with one household as the unit. In addition, the natural economy of small farmers and the commodity economy of small producers still existed in China feudal society, but they did not occupy the main position.

Baidu Encyclopedia-China's Economic Development History