How to understand the characteristics and nature of feudal society?

Economically, feudal land ownership is dominant. Emperors, nobles, bureaucrats and landlords occupy a lot of land, while farmers, who account for the vast majority of the population, occupy very little land and need to rent landlord land to pay high land rent. The contradiction between the feudal landlord class and the peasant class is sharp. Small-scale peasant economy is the basic production structure of feudal society in China, and its main feature is a self-sufficient natural economy with individual families as the mainstay and family handicrafts as the combination.

Politically, a highly centralized feudal monarchy was implemented. Since the establishment of the centralized feudal empire by Qin Shihuang, the rulers of past dynasties have continuously strengthened the imperial power, which to a certain extent maintained the unity of multi-ethnic countries, and at the same time suppressed the vitality and vitality of China feudal society to a great extent.

Culturally, Confucianism is the core, the three cardinal guides and the five permanents are the ethical norms, and benevolent government is advocated to assist the monarch. Feudal culture stipulated that people's every move should conform to the code of conduct formulated by the etiquette law. To some extent, it is a shackle that binds people's freedom of action and thought.

In the social structure, it is a feudal patriarchal hierarchy combining clan power and political power. The core is patriarchal clan system, in which monarchical power and patriarchy are dominant, which was once beneficial to social stability and feudal order in social structure, but it has increasingly become the shackles of social development and progress.