What are the basic characteristics of the formation of ancient China?

China's early countries were characterized by hereditary system of the throne, enfeoffment system and consanguineous clan system.

Among them, the feudal society can be divided into five stages: the Warring States and Qin and Han Dynasties are the stages of the formation and initial development of the feudal society. The Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties were the stages of the division of feudal countries and the great integration of nationalities.

Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties were the prosperous stages of feudal society. The Liao, Song, Xia, Jin and Yuan Dynasties were a period when national integration was further strengthened and the feudal economy continued to develop. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were a period of consolidation of a unified multi-ethnic country and gradual decline of feudal system.

economy

In ancient China, the agricultural economy was developed, and its economic scale was ahead of the world for a long time. Historically, due to the change of natural environment and the influence of human factors such as war, the ancient economy of China usually had the same cycle as the rise and fall of dynasties.

From the Ming Dynasty (the sea ban was implemented in the early Ming Dynasty, and then Qin Long opened the floodgates to allow people to sell things and the sea in far-off places), China adhered to the agricultural economy, while the western world took the lead in realizing the industrial revolution in the same period, and China's economy lagged behind the west. Since the Opium War, China's original conservative agricultural economic system has been greatly challenged by the western world.

From the founding of the National Government of the Republic of China to the eve of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, despite the multiple interference from internal and external factors, the process of industrial development in China still followed the example of the West and developed smoothly. Then until the Sino-Japanese War and the national war ended, China had a relatively long period of peaceful development.