The term costume meant forcing others to work and the costume system just involved the forcefullyrequired corvees and tributes, which resulted in the “tenranked” and “servicedoing” hierarchy. The costume was groupbased, stable and universal. All workers in and out of the court of the Yin and the West Zhou Dynasty, either masters or servants, had their respective costumes, so the system cannot be narrowed down to the fiverank noble system or feudalism. In the Springautumn times, all social reforms with “land taxation” and “service corvee” for example essentially replaced fixed forced labour with taxation by land quantity and guarding costumes carried by the family soldier with taxes for military service. As a result, the economic takeoff in the day didn't result from the fall of the ninesquare system but the collapse of the costume system.

history of the preQin China; costume; hierarchy; the fiverank noble system; feudalism