15000 to 10000 to 8000 years ago, primitive society was also called "primitive commune" and "primitive communist society". The first social form in human history. The process of human production is also the process of the formation of primitive society. It has existed for two or three million years, which is the longest stage of social development in human history. The extremely low productivity is the fundamental reason for the slow development of primitive society.

The main symbol of social productivity is the use of stone tools. The combination of labor is mainly simple cooperation, and the division of labor between people is mainly the natural division of labor according to gender and age. People are single, unable to fight against nature, and must work together to seek survival resources, which determines the common possession of the means of production.

2. Slave society

The "slave society" stage of China's history began when the Shang emperor went to Jia in the 6th century BC/KLOC-0, and ended in the 22nd century BC/KLOC-0, when Ying Zheng, king of Qin, unified the six countries.

In addition to maintaining people's lives, social products began to have surplus. On the one hand, the emergence of surplus products makes it possible for some people to get rid of heavy manual labor and specialize in social management and cultural and scientific activities, thus promoting the development of production; On the other hand, it also prepared conditions for the emergence of private ownership.

With the emergence of private ownership, the exploiting class and the exploited class appeared in the society, the primitive society began to disintegrate and the slave society came into being. Slaves are regarded as the property of slave owners and can be bought and sold freely; Slave owners can force slaves to work, and labor activities must be dominated by slaves, without remuneration and personal freedom. In a human society, if most workers in the field of material production are slaves, then this social form is a slave society.

3. Feudal society

From Qin Dynasty to Opium War 1840.

The society in which the landlord class became the ruling class was a feudal society, and the contradiction between the landlord class and the peasant class was the main contradiction in the feudal society. The natural economy formed in feudal society is an economic structure organization based on land, combining agriculture with handicraft industry, taking family as production unit, which is self-enclosed and independent and mainly meets its own needs.

4. Exploration of modern society.

From the late Qing Dynasty to the birth of communism.

Industrialization and commercialization in the economic field. Compared with tradition, the modern modernization process is a transition from traditional society to modern society, which will lead to changes in social productivity, economic system, political system, ideological culture and even people's lifestyle, values and psychological attitudes. Its core is economic industrialization and political democratization.

Extended data:

The birth of modern new-democratic revolution;

During the First World War, with the further development of China's capitalist economy, the bourgeoisie strongly demanded bourgeois democracy in China and opposed the rule of feudal warlords, and the New Culture Movement came into being. 19 15, Chen Duxiu founded "New Youth" in Shanghai, which became a symbol of the rise of the new culture movement.

"Democracy" and "science" are the slogans put forward by the New Culture Movement. The New Culture Movement set off a wave of ideological emancipation in society. After the victory of the October socialist revolution in Russia, Li Dazhao publicized the October revolution and raised the banner of socialism for the first time in China, thus giving new development to the New Culture Movement.

Baidu Encyclopedia-History of China