Disadvantages of the feudal system in ancient China

1, the feudal system is very easy to form tyranny and corruption, which is a factor hindering the development of history.?

2. It was manifested in the ideology as a monopoly, which limited the development of ideas.

3. It hindered social progress in the late feudal society and limited China's modernization.

The feudal system was a political system in which territories were assigned to members of the clan, royalty, and meritorious officials by the ****lord or centralized dynasty. Its basic forms were the feudal hierarchy and the manorial system.

Peasants (or serfs) cultivated the land of the landowner paying the vast majority of the produce to the feudal lord. The superstructure was mainly a feudal state characterized by hierarchy. The dominant ideology was characterized by the maintenance of the feudal system and feudal hierarchy and the promotion of traditional morality. Under the feudal system, the basic classes of society were the feudal lords and the peasant (or serf) class.

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In the feudal system, the landowners ruled over the other classes at the root i.e. feudal land ownership. In the West, all land belonged to the king, who granted it to nobles and meritorious officials, who in turn granted part of their land to their cronies, and so on. In China, on the other hand, private ownership of land has been practiced since Shang Yang's change in the law, with landowners having absolute control over the land under their jurisdiction and being able to buy and sell it at will.

In feudal China, the feudal lord owned the land and managed the peasants and slaves within the fief, as well as keeping his own retainers. The free people within the fiefdom developed and cultivated the land themselves, and the feudal lord could collect rent from them within his domain.

In the Western feudal system, the feudal lords not only took possession of the farmland, but also included the peasants who lived on the land in their own books, reducing the peasants to serfdom. In feudal China, peasants were nominally independent, but in reality, for various reasons, they were not free at all. In the West, serfs were regarded as part of the lord's property, similar to slaves, but serfs could only be used and not bought or sold.

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