Why do ancient Chinese people lack a sense of contract?



At the end of the Chu-Han War, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang reached an agreement to divide the world along the Hangou Canal. Xiang Yu disbanded his allies and prepared to go home, but Liu Bang secretly mobilized troops, took the opportunity to attack and kill Xiang Yu, and eventually established the Han Dynasty. Most Chinese people admire people like Liu Bang, and contemptuously think that Xiang Yu is too soft-hearted.

 If you put pressure on the ancient Chinese, hoping to force them to choose negotiation, you will not be able to achieve your goal. For the Chinese, negotiation is a feint, a delaying tactic before their own strength is gathered.

The ancient Chinese also did not believe in contracts and often tore up contracts easily. They believed that the party who abides by the contract is only the weak one who has to do so.

Does the fact that ancient Chinese people did not accept negotiation and contract mean that they lacked morality? In terms of private morality, they should not be below the median level of human morality. Ancient Chinese and Westerners lived in different worlds. Most Chinese dynasties originated from nomadic foreigners invading East Asian farming areas and farmers driving out foreign conquerors through violent uprisings. And this happened very frequently. This led to the fact that almost all countries would not last more than three hundred years at most. There was no country that lasted for a thousand years like the Eastern Roman Empire. 

In other words, the foundation and method of establishing the ancient Chinese state was to destroy existing norms such as royal inheritance, laws, culture, and contracts. Moreover, since the destroyers often belonged to different nationalities and cultural systems from the existing rulers, the damage brought about was often very serious.In other words, the Chinese state had no chance to transform from a conqueror state to a bloodline and cultural inheritance state. 

Ancient Chinese people did not respect laws, contracts, and negotiations. In short, the legal system and cultural inheritance were not long enough. The Chinese countries in East Asia seem to be very long, but they are full of grand narratives and cracks or even horizontal cuts. The inheritance of rulers, laws, and cultures in different time periods is intermittent. Moreover, Western countries have Roman and Greek laws, Germanic traditional laws, and Christianity as cultural identities, and the medieval feudal fiefdom system as social foundation. These and their possible counterparts do not exist in East Asia.

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