Abstract:
There are two totally different opinions in academic circles as to whether the Jurchen regime political and social system is a state form or a prestate form——chiefdoms (military tribal alliance, clan system) in the Taizu and Taizong periods of the Jin Dynasty.The most frequently used historical materials in the academic research have the problems of interpretation errors and improper use .In the early years of the Jin Dynasty, the form of institutionalized political structure based on force and with a social cohesion mechanism based on geographical relations had been formed, which possessed the basic elements of a nation.The Jin Dynasty established by the Jurchens was a multiethnic state during the reign of Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong, it was not simply a Matriarch of Jurchen (or tribal system), nor was it a multiethnic sheik (or tribal system, or tribal alliance).
