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What are the characteristics of farming economy in China's traditional society?

The farming economy in China's traditional society has the following characteristics:

1. Self-sufficiency: In the traditional society, the farming economy is based on one household, with a small scale of operation, and the products produced are mainly used to meet their own needs.

2. Closure: Because people have little contact with the market, they only perceive changes in the outside world through people's hearsay. At the same time, Niu Geng is the main mode of farming economy, and most people are tied to the land for most of the time, and there is little communication with the society, so it is inevitable to be closed.

3. Backwardness: The agricultural economy is mainly driven by manpower and animal power, which limits the development of production. In the late feudal society, the western capitalist economy sprouted, but until the eve of the Opium War, China's traditional society lacked a lot of economic resources, which led to the backwardness of China's agricultural economy.

4. Sustainability: In the feudal society of China for more than 2,000 years, the natural economy has always occupied a dominant position. Although the commodity economy developed greatly in the middle period of feudal society, the traditional farming economy in China occupied a dominant position until after the Opium War.

5. Vulnerability: Because all the feudal dynasties in China were based on land, the phenomenon of land annexation was serious, and the gap between the rich and the poor was too large. In the event of natural disasters such as famine and plague, the poor will lose their land, thus affecting the agricultural economy.