Zhou Dynasty Relief System

Pre-Qin period was initially formed in ancient China during the relief system, this research will help take advantage of China welfare system of the school. Although domestic and foreign scholars have conducted extensive research, but most of the entire pre-Qin period as a fixed stage to describe the neglect of the relief system itself in the process of development and changes in the pre-Qin period. In this paper senior academics who have studied on the basis of pre-Qin period, especially the relief system in the Zhou dynasty detailed block research aimed at outlining the various stages of relief system in the specific circumstances of the Zhou Dynasty and development context, with a view to the pre-Qin period of social system studies have been helpful.The article is divided into three parts:In the first part, the author of relief situations through a concrete analysis of the Western Zhou Dynasty to study the causes of the relief system, and specific performance relief and accordingly analyze the existence of the Western Zhou state relief and the blood of a political family relief in both cases relief; and home and country from the Western Zhou period, regardless of this particular situation determines the relief system throughout the Western Zhou Dynasty to play a leading role in the blood rather than the class relations in the Western Zhou Dynasty relief system which is a major feature.The second part, I live in Spring and Autumn Period closely is the historical era of great change the characteristics of a large number of historical references, the system demonstrated the characteristics of this period of relief. On the one hand there is relief on the continuation of the Western Zhou blood relationship, but also doped into a series of political relations between the relief purpose, the new situation is different from the past. I believe that this situation is the emergence of the state power from the Spring and Autumn Period kinship to the Evolution of geographic relations are closely related. The end of the Spring and Autumn of the world, this change has not completed, resulting in the Spring and Autumn Period relief system shows the characteristics of the coexistence of continuity and development..The third part discusses the Warring States period, the basic shape relief system. Here, the author of the Warring States period through the analysis of new circumstances, from the demise of kinship, family disintegration, concluded that blood existed in the past the decline of family relief. And with the establishment of new state power have, purely political relief system also will improve and become an important country to maintain the rule of the system. At the same time one after another with the emergence of individual families, the private sector mutual relief also appeared, and gradually become the dominant form of relief.