During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the war of feudal lords for hegemony destroyed the old order of slavery and brought disaster and pain to the people. However, the result of the war accelerated the process of reunification, promoted national integration and accelerated the pace of change. With the growing strength of the emerging landlord class, they successively launched political reform movements in various vassal States, and the new system was finally established. Qin, the country with the most thorough political reform, became the strongest of the vassal States and later developed into a unified core force.
2. Economy: the disintegration of the well-field system and the emergence of feudal relations of production;
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, as the last bronze age in China, bronzes gradually withdrew from the historical stage due to the use of ironware and the promotion of Niu Geng. The use of ironware and the popularization of Niu Geng also marked the remarkable improvement of social productive forces.
China's feudal economy has been further developed, especially in the north. The leap of productive forces triggered the revolution of production relations. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the well field system was gradually replaced by feudal private ownership of land, and was finally established through reforms in various countries.
3. Thought: As the ruling class loosens its control over ideology, a hundred schools of thought contend;
At the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a storm of great social change was set off. In this devastating and overwhelming great change, the old slave-owner class declined and the new landlord class rose; The old system and moral ethics were replaced by the new system and ideology;
Some farmers have gained more freedom and profound changes have taken place in social relations of production. The class contradiction is sharp and fierce, and the merger war continues year after year. The whole society presents a complicated situation of great turmoil and reorganization.
4. Military: The country annexed each other for land, population and resources and fought for years.
The war in the Spring and Autumn Period was dominated by nobles driving chariots. They fought according to the rules of cavalry. For them, prestige and "face" are more important than actual income. During the Warring States period, the war was dominated by professional generals who fought to the death for any country that hired them, vying for territory and resources.
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The coexistence of reform and hegemony war is a remarkable social situation in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It can be said that the emergence of every hegemon in the Spring and Autumn Period was the result of reform, and the coexistence of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States in China was also the result of continuous innovation. The reason is that the war for hegemony needs political and economic backing, and reform is a necessary means to rapidly enhance the strength of vassal States.
From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, reform followed closely, and war was connected with war. In the reform, the country became stronger, and in the war, China suffered. It was in this situation that society developed and progressed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
When King Wuling of Zhao was in power, he carried out the policy of "riding and shooting with hufu", which made Zhao prosperous. With the widespread use of private land system and ironware and the rise of new social strata, China in the Warring States period ushered in the peak of political, economic, cultural and technological changes.
Due to the strengthening of the county system, countries that have acquired land, wealth and population have been carrying out merger wars, which has prompted this land that has been in war since the Spring and Autumn Period to gradually move towards a new era.
The Warring States inherited the troubled times in the Spring and Autumn Period, created Qin Shihuang, and continued the cultural trend of a hundred schools of thought contending. The new development of economy and technology in the Central Plains and the national reforms launched by various countries to strengthen their own strength, the vertical and horizontal alliance of celebrities, and the struggle of old generals have emerged one after another, which has produced a large number of allusions for future generations. Shaped the embryonic form of the Chinese empire.
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