Son, The Spring And Autumn Home Country

The foundation of The Western Zhou Dynasty didn't change the national formation. It reformed and inherited social system in existence formerly, and combined the patriarchal clan system and the feudal system to rule the united state by tens of thousands of nations. Whereupon it constructed a hierarchy of power——from top to bottom:the Son of Heaven, prince, high official and bachelor. The identity politics of the sons of the feudal princes depended on the patriarchal clan system. But in the Spring and Autumn Period the patriarchal clan system and feudal system were hard to continue, but the new system was still not established. Therefore, in the process, fates of sons of a feudal prince changed with the ups and downs of various political forces. Therefore, based on the national formation this paper tries to analyse the factors of fates of sons of a feudal prince in the Spring and Autumn.This paper is divided into four parts:The first part mainly describes the main content of patriarchal clan system and feudal system After the establishment of The Western Zhou Dynasty, the national formation and political inertia are factors of the implementation of patriarchal clan system and feudal system.The second part mainly discusses the scope of sons of a feudal prince, rules of patriarchal identity which result in the discrimination and political differentiation in home and country. In the Spring and Autumn Period sons of a feudal prince had different patriarchal identities, so they had different rights in name, education, housing, clothing, political treatment.The differences of these rights were also quite distinctly obeyed. But during The Spring and Autumn Period, political differentiation of sons of a feudal prince differed from man to man. It just showed that patriarchal system and feudal system collapsed.The third part mainly discusses the factors of fate of sons of a feudal prince. The Spring and Autumn Period, patriarchal clan system and feudal system collapsed, the wife's eldest son and other sons couldn't obtain the corresponding political and economic benefits as before, and they got their own future by the struggle. Therefore personal qualities played an important role in the fate of sons of a feudal prince but the patriarchal factors did not completely quit the stage of history. The author thinks that the fate of sons of a feudal prince are affected by the following factors:domestic patriarchal power, attitudes of home ministers, qualities of sons of a feudal prince, vassalages of sons of a feudal prince, aids of feudal princes.The forth part mainly narrates the historical influences of sons of a feudal prince in the Spring and Autumn. They played an important role in the shape of the political pattern, cultural exchange of different nations and unification of regions by their political position.In this paper, the author mainly apply the history research method and comparison method.First the author describes the patriarchal clan system and the feudal system, which are precondition of birth of sons of a feudal prince.Secondly the author narrates establishment of patriarchal identity of sons of a feudal prince and different rights of sons of a feudal prince in home and country based on the patriarchal clan system.Thirdly,in comparison with the reality of the spring and autumn, the author analyses the various factors affecting the fate of sons of a feudal prince. Finally the author narrates the historical influences of sons of a feudal prince in the Spring and Autumn.