The impact of long Chinese feudal society on Chinese society

Chinese feudal society began to take shape around the Warring States period, and the first feudal dynasty began in 221 B.C. until the 1911 Xinhai Revolution and the abdication of the Qing Emperor in 1912, when Chinese feudal society continued to develop for more than 2,000 years.

The concept of harmony, the cultural concept of virtue, the economic concept of agriculture, and the political concept of people-oriented constitute the basic structure of traditional Chinese ideology. It determined the institutional design and political decisions of Chinese feudal dynasties, supported the long-term prosperity of Chinese feudal civilization, and at the same time locked in the path of institutional change, which became the main cause of the long-term continuation of Chinese feudal society.

At the same time, these concepts had a profound impact on the future development of Chinese society.

On the one hand: relative internal stability and external isolation from the harassment of external forces objectively favored the continued development of the feudal economy.

On the other hand: it was the fact that China lagged behind the world trend, isolated from the outside world, not conducive to the economic and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, which was the main reason leading to the beating of China in modern times.