What is gentry manor economy and temple economy?

Manor economy refers to the economic base based on tenant farmers and servants. Since the emergence of private land system in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China, farmers have been forced to sell their fields because of their heavy living burden, and the so-called big landlords have emerged.

In the Han dynasty, the gap between the rich and the poor was even greater. After the Three Kingdoms inherited the Han Dynasty, although their political system was flexible in profit and loss, the relations of production remained unchanged, and the economic base was still a feudal society dominated by tenant farmers and servants, so the landlord class at that time occupied a very strong position in society.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism was introduced to China, and monks in monasteries always enjoyed the national tax exemption policy, thus forming a unique feudal landlord economic form centered on monasteries-temple economy.

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Economic and Social Foundation

The property of the temple is called the Three Treasures, namely, Monk, Dharma and Buddha. As monks, fields, houses, gardens and gold and silver coins are the foundation of the temple landlord economy. Its sources mainly include the following aspects:

First, the gifts and alms of feudal rulers.

Second, temple landlords wantonly annexed and plundered land.

Third, poor farmers are dependent on Samoa.

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