Ancient China Social Hierarchy

The social hierarchy of ancient china is very similar to the other modern cities and cultures today. Hierarchy is the ladder of social importance or royalty. Ancient china has a very rich culture of the standings of each person in their ranks. Every society has a hierarchy some are enforced more than others. China have much pride around this area and the social standings each person has. The first person on the ladder is the Emperor and then social standing is very high. They are the most well-known people in the land. The emperor was a king basically in ancient china they controlled the land.

Emperor

The next social rank are the government officials. Officials were another group that held high social status in ancient China. Boys whose families could afford to send them to school began their education at an early age so as to become officials and were required to pass a difficult exam. If they did not pass, however, they were usually still able find jobs as they were considered well educated. I see officials as a very important group of people in the social hierarchy of Ancient China.

Government officials

Nobles

The next class are the nobles. These people were super important in the social structure of Ancient China.The noble class in ancient China was very privileged. Nobles were typically the extended family of the emperor and empress and those people that excelled in their fields, particularly in the military. The status of nobles, however, changed frequently depending on who gained or fell out of favour with the emperor.The next social rank were the merchants. I believe these were the most important if not the most important people in all of Ancient China.The merchant class included traders, animal breeders and money lenders. Merchants were considered the lowest social class in ancient China. People believed that they did not contribute to the good of the whole society but only worked for their own gain.

Merchants

The last or lowest ranked class in the Ancient China ladder social status were the slaves. Slaves is a word that is thought of to describe very poor people. In ancient China that is true. But slaves are sometimes made out to be bad people but they were important and extremely helpful to the Chinese society.Slaves did exist in ancient China but they made up a very small percentage of the population. Some slaves were the relatives of criminals while other people sold themselves or their children as slaves if they were very poor. That's it for this blog. Hopefully you Adventurers have learnt something! See you soon!

Slaves