A brief introduction to the inheritance system in China feudal society (1) The meaning and origin of ancient inheritance in China 1. The significance of China's ancient inheritance has many meanings: China's ancient books recorded that inheritance is also called inheritance, or simply called inheritance, and it is also called inheriting the inheritance of ancestors. In The Book of Rites, Yao Yue said "prospering and destroying the country, inheriting the peerless world", while in The Analects of Confucius, he said "being good at inheriting others", which shows that the scope of the word inheritance is very wide. The inheritance of China feudal society that we analyze in this paper does not refer to the broad inheritance of material civilization and spiritual civilization created by ancestors by future generations; It is also different from the specific legal system and legal relationship in which the property left by the deceased is transferred to others according to law when the property owner dies or is declared dead in modern inheritance law. It means "the living inherits the social status of the deceased and its accompanying rights and obligations", which is the unity of identity inheritance and property inheritance. A brief introduction to the inheritance system in China feudal society (1) The meaning and origin of ancient inheritance in China 1. The significance of China's ancient inheritance has many meanings: China's ancient books recorded that inheritance is also called inheritance, or simply called inheritance, and it is also called inheriting the inheritance of ancestors. In The Book of Rites, Yao Yue said "prospering and destroying the country, inheriting the peerless world", while in The Analects of Confucius, he said "being good at inheriting others", which shows that the scope of the word inheritance is very wide. The inheritance of China feudal society that we analyze in this paper does not refer to the broad inheritance of material civilization and spiritual civilization created by ancestors by future generations; It is also different from the specific legal system and legal relationship in which the property left by the deceased is transferred to others according to law when the property owner dies or is declared dead in modern inheritance law. It means "the living inherits the social status of the deceased and its accompanying rights and obligations", which is the unity of identity inheritance and property inheritance.