封建社会

封建社會

fēngjiàn shèhuì

noun

Meanings

1 feudal society

Characters

to grant land and title

Examples

HSK 6

在封建社会中，婚姻大多由父母包办。

Zài fēngjiàn shèhuì zhōng, hūnyīn dàduō yóu fùmǔ bāobàn.

In feudal society, most marriages were arranged by parents.

HSK 7-9

中国的历史教科书一般认为，鸦片战争以前的两千多年都是封建社会。

Zhōngguó de lìshǐ jiàokēshū yìbān rènwéi, Yāpiàn Zhànzhēng yǐqián de liǎngqiān duō nián dōu shì fēngjiàn shèhuì.

Chinese history textbooks generally treat the two thousand years and more before the Opium War as feudal society.

Tips

history

PRC historians adopted the Marxist sequence of stages, in which 封建社会 follows slave society and covers all of imperial China up to the Opium War of 1840. That is not what 封建 first meant: the Zhou practice of granting land and titles to lords, which the Qin abolished.

Stroke Order

封 fēng

建 jiàn

社 shè

会 huì