Spring and Autumn - The collapse of the inheritance system for the eldest son

Spring and Autumn, an era of chaos, confucius's era of collapse and happiness, subjects kill the king, the son kills the father.

All this stemmed from the zhou dynasty's no longer observance of the system of primogeniture (the so-called primogeniture system, then the primogeniture system of the right wife), which caused confusion in the transfer of political power, so that the clans representing different interests were choosing their own spokesmen, and the power defenders appeared to choose the son of the monarch who best suited their own interests instead of the eldest son, and the respective families at that time controlled part of the state's army, which caused bloody killings. The mutual killing of the sons of the monarch has caused a serious vacuum in the power of the state, and the gong clans have lost their power by killing each other, so that the people with hearts will be punished and compete for the throne.

If you firmly safeguard the inheritance rights of the eldest son from the beginning, so as to control the subsequent operation space of the family clan, it will make the power of the state not deviate at the time of the transfer. However, the decline of the Zhou court was no longer able to maintain the various systems established by the founding of the country. With the collapse of the system and the absence of a better system to replace it, Confucius proposed a solution to restore the Zhou rites, which was scorned by later Shang Jun, saying that there was no need for the fa to be ancient.