Ancient Chinese institutions

honorary name given to royalty, nobles, and sometimes others, after the person's death

name bestowed to a monarch after death (East Asia)

Confucian term from ancient China that collectively refers to the populace through occupational categories: shì (gentry scholars), nóng (peasant farmers), gōng (artisans and craftsmen), and shāng (merchants and traders)

Gaozu () is an imperial temple name typically used for Chinese emperors who founded a particular dynasty. It may refer to:

Chinese currency unit used on cash coins in imperial and early republican China

Taizu () is a temple name typically, but not always, used for Chinese monarchs who founded a particular dynasty. It may refer to:

ancient Chinese system of land ownership

', literally "demarcation and establishment" but often (controversially) described as Chinese feudalism', was a governance system and political thought in Ancient China and Imperial China, whose social structure formed a decentralized system of confederation-like government. The ruling class consisted of the Son of Heaven (king or emperor) and aristocracy, and the lower class consisted of commoners categorized into four occupations (or "four categories of the people", namely scholar-officials, peasants, laborers and merchants). Elite bonds through affinal relations and submission to the overlo

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Chinese historical land distribution method

year(s) of the reign of a sovereign (in ordinal timeline)

transfer of the throne peacefully in ancient China

ancient Chinese political system

The hyangyak (; Vietnamese: Hương ước (鄉約)) was a contractual arrangement that allowed for a degree of local government in the history of Korea and Vietnam.

ancient Chinese social system