On the State Form and the Political Control at the Periods of the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States

The evolution of the national power structure in ancient China was that the power was getting more and more centered at the top of the empire,but the evolution trend from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn as well as the Warring States periods was different from what was said before.The state form and function of the Western Zhou Dynasty had evolved primarily,but the royal families of the Spring and Autumn period had quite some complicated relationships with the power structure and functional forms among their states as if the history had seen some shift-down of power.This was due to the internal shortcomings of the political control measures at the earlier stages of states.The restructure and the shift-down of the national power at the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods were in fact the new beginning of more matured accumulation of an enormous nation.The changes of the political control forms at this period and the growth of the regional factors in the state structure,in the frequent warring environment,evolved towards the density of the national geographical space(because of traffic construction),political space(because of the bureaucratic administration) and the social space(because of the disintegration of the clans),but the nationalization of the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States still remained in an incomplete transitional period.