What tools did the rulers of the Western Zhou Dynasty use to maintain social order and consolidate their rule?
The consolidation of the Western Zhou Dynasty is closely related to the establishment of a stable system. There are four systems supporting the Zhou Dynasty: feudal system, patriarchal system, ritual system and Jing Tian system. Feudalism is the political system of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the core of its rule. Well-field system is to maintain the feudal economic system. As for the patriarchal system of rites and music, it is to safeguard the feudal social system and cultural system.