The debate about feudalism and the universality of feudal society has been going on in international history, and it has also been reflected in China in recent years. This paper intends to discuss the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western scholars' theories on feudal society from the aspects of why China and Western Europe have feudal societies, how to compare them reasonably and how to understand their development.

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Feudalism is no stranger in China. Refers to the Zhou Dynasty (1066-77 1 years ago) enfeoffment of princes with the same surname and princes with different surnames. In the twenty-four years of Zuo Zhuan, it was recorded that "the Duke of Zhou hung his uncle's salt, so the feudal relatives used it as a fan screen." This system of enfeoffment is to distribute the land and its residents to the blocked people, which is called granting land to the people. Governors can also enfeoffment land and people to the next level of Qing Dafu, so land is the hub, forming a multi-level hierarchical chain between rulers. They have mutual rights and obligations, mainly that the land recipient should pay tribute (including military service) to the land giver [1]. No matter what explanation is given to the feudal system of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there is no doubt that it is the inherent political system of China itself. This system gradually changed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period (722-22 1 year) and was difficult to maintain. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he abandoned feudalism and set up a county. It is generally believed that the political and feudal system in China's history is over.

After the abolition of feudalism in Qin Dynasty, feudal princes in China's history were still enfeoffed. However, this feudalism, as Wang Tong later said, "Emperor Jingdi ordered the feudal princes not to cure the people and make up the officials, while Han established literature and history to rule their land, so the feudal land was called the county." However, the debate about which feudal county is better and which feudal county is worse can make the rule more stable and longer has been going on in the history of China. All parties in the debate regard feudalism as a political system, which does not involve the social and economic content under the feudal system. Liu Zongyuan's famous "On Feudalism" only pointed out that the emergence of ancient feudal system was related to the existence of clan and tribal forces, and it was not necessarily the result of man-made.