Abstract:
As early Chinese writings show, clans with their independent emblems and armed forces were important social organizations in Chinese society of ancient times. In those early days, trees were planted around fiefs to be the primitive borders between regions. Later, territorial planning was imposed as the consciousness of national territory became mature and the sense of sovereignty took shape in the course of wars between tribes. These conceptions of family, state and sovereignty were relatively vividly preserved in the morphological structure of Chinese writing of ancient times.
