Patriarchal clan system is one of the pillars of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is also the key link in this paper to study the fate of Chunqiu Gongzi. Patriarchal system has established the principle of son's political and economic inheritance in various countries. To understand the patriarchal clan system is to understand the status of "Childe" in China and rural areas, so as to prepare for analyzing the fate of Childe in the Spring and Autumn Period. Patriarchal system is a complex issue, and there are many ancient and modern works.

"Simply put, the patriarchal clan system is a system that divides various family organizations with the same surname from all walks of life into large families and small families, and stipulates their rights and obligations. This is a series of principles and methods formulated by people to standardize the clan system. "

"Another child is an ancestor, another is an ancestor, and the other is a descendant. Some people never move, and some people move after five generations. The man who has been motionless has given birth to another son. People who live in the same place as other sons will never move. Those who live in his successor Gaozu, and those who moved in from the fifth generation. Respect our ancestors, respect our ancestors, respect our ancestors. There are minor cases without major cases, major cases without minor cases, and cases without mo cases. Childe has faith. Your son's husband is the humble of his literati, the shackles of those literati living on him, and the ancestor of your son. "

According to the notes, it means something like this: Biezi, your son came to this country for the first time. Later generations think that the world of ancestors and other sons is unique and people respect it. This is called Da, and it's Zongzi. Father's office, brother's respect, is a small group. The immortal did not move, but Emperor Xiaozong V moved. Respect their ancestors, so respecting their sons and their sons means respecting their ancestors. Large-scale immortality is immobile, which means that the world of other children will be passed down from generation to generation and will always be big; The small clan that moved after the Five Dynasties refers to the small clan after the Emperor Gaozu. After every five generations left the original clan to live with the people and moved to the clan, "the big clan no longer has the obligation to take care of and protect him."

Childe refers to the son of my late Lord, and now he is my late Lord's younger brother. You have no official position in Kundi, so you chose Shukundi as your son, and you are the youngest son. This is "the youngest son has no eldest son". You have your own Kundi, you can make him a son, but you can't make your ordinary Kundi a son. In other words, "big or small." . Only one son. He can be a son without him. This is "with or without him". Without him, he is Mo's son. Your son's brother Kun is a monarch, but his son can't be a monarch, while your ordinary brother is a scholar-bureaucrat and your father's brother Kun is his son. This is my son's belief. As can be seen from the above, if the son's elder is a monarch, then the monarch will make zongzi for the grandchildren of other groups, and the zongzi is not selected by the monarch. Mourning is different. "Childe shall not ZongJun, your life DiKun male will, make it, is the way of the child. Working people are as old as those who died in Cui Zi in September, while their mothers are in June and their wives are in March. If you don't have an office, you are like a small family, and you will die for it in September. His mother and wife have no service. " Corresponding to the patriarchal clan system, politics is also carried out in accordance with other principles.

"The emperor founded the country, the princes married, Shu Ren, industry and commerce, each with its own relatives, all with the same decline." The emperor authorized the governors, and the governors authorized the fiefs and doctors. And this QingDaFu, mostly not acceded to the throne childe, namely childe group. Zongzi has supreme power over his people. Zongzi monopolizes the right to sacrifice within the clan and holds the land ownership, military power and judicial power of the whole clan.