In the Ming Dynasty, the sea was banned because of the enemy, and the Qing Dynasty closed its doors. There was a literary inquisition in the prosperous period of Kanggan, and it began to end in the late period of Ganlong.

Politics: The imperial power of Ming and Qing dynasties was constantly strengthened, from the abolition of the Prime Minister by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of Yong Zhengdi Cabinet, to the establishment of the military headquarters of Qing Dynasty. However, the Ming and Qing dynasties were also an era of gradual decline of feudal system. With the collapse of the last court established by the Han people, and after the Six Dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, since the Anbaili Uprising in the first year of Jiaqing, the prosperity of anti-cadres no longer exists. During the Sino-British Opium War in Daoguang period, China began to become a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country, which was really different from dynasty to dynasty. In short, the feudal system gradually declined from the peak of the unprecedented strengthening of imperial power in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The germination of capitalism appeared in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, mainly in the south of the Yangtze River.