What was the main economic form in ancient China?

Small-scale peasant economy was the most basic economic form in ancient China.

Small-scale peasant economy belongs to natural economy, which is characterized by dispersion, and the products produced are used for self-sufficiency or mostly for self-sufficiency, rather than for commodity exchange, and it is a self-sufficient natural economy.

China's feudal society evolved from a slave society without foreign aggression. China's slave society practiced state ownership of land, and all the land owned by the state was owned by the supreme ruler of the country, which was called "the land of kings is a big place in the world". Is it the king's land? " (The Book of Songs Xiaoya Beishan). After the Spring and Autumn Period, with the development of productive forces, the original land system was destroyed. After the emerging feudal forces seized power, they successively implemented political reforms, established private ownership of land, and allowed "people to buy and sell land." Since then, private land system has become the main form of land system in China feudal society.

On the one hand, private ownership of small land. At the same time, it will inevitably lead to the phenomenon of land merger, and there will be "rich fields and even buildings". A situation in which the poor have no place to stand. Formed the form of private ownership of large land. These big landlords were the landlord class in the feudal society of China. Since the Tang Dynasty, they exploited individual farmers who lost their land in the merger in the form of hidden family slavery and tenancy. Therefore, farmers in feudal society in China have always been composed of two kinds of characters: the yeoman who occupies a small amount of land and means of production and the tenant farmer who is attached to the landlord class (formerly known as the hidden farmer). But no matter what kind of farmers, they are self-sufficient small-scale peasant economies.