In feudal society, it refers to a social system based on the feudal landlord class occupying land and exploiting the surplus labor of farmers (or serfs). Its basic form of exploitation is feudal land rent, and most of the products cultivated by farmers (or serfs) are deprived by feudal landlords as land rent.
Superstructure is mainly a feudal country characterized by hierarchy. The main content of the leading ideology is to maintain the feudal exploitation system and feudal hierarchy and to promote feudal morality. Under the feudal system, the basic opposing classes of society are the landlord class and the peasant (or serf) class.
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Original meaning and western meaning
China was called "feudalism" in ancient times, which originally referred to the enfeoffment system in the Yin and Zhou Dynasties. Various measures were taken to extend the knighthood and vassal status of later generations. "General Examination of Imperial Literature" has made a summary conclusion: a title is a seal, which is built in parts.
This view is illustrated by the dispute between Li Si and Wang Wan in Qin Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan's feudalism in Tang Dynasty and Wang Fuzhi's discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of feudalism in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Feudalism has a complicated process in western Europe, which means that feudal lords monopolize land and prohibit land sales, and the contractual relationship between lords and vassals coexists with personal attachment.
Historians in Europe and America summarized fiefdoms and vassals as the premise of feudal relations of production, claiming that feudal lords' control over land and subjects was the basis of feudal system, and personal attachment was the characteristic of feudal system.
China's feudal original meaning is different from feudalism, and there are similarities and differences, and there are commonalities. Therefore, Japanese modern enlightenment scholar Fukuzawa Yukichi and China translator Yan Fu divided the feudal society in China into three generations, mainly the Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, both Chinese and Japanese scholars insist on the commensurability between the ancient meaning and the western meaning of China's feudal system.
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