During the Warring States period, governors rebelled against domestic ministers, and all countries paid no attention to Zhou in military struggles. Everything is for turf, and music has completely collapsed. From then on, countries arrogated the title of king, and the Zhou royal family completely lost its dominant position from system to culture, and was finally easily eliminated by Qin Jun. Reform and hegemony wars coexisted, which was a remarkable social situation in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It can be said that the emergence of every hegemon in the Spring and Autumn Period was the result of reform, and the coexistence of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States in China was also the result of continuous innovation.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the war of feudal lords for hegemony destroyed the old order of slavery and brought disaster and pain to the people. However, the result of the war accelerated the process of reunification, promoted national integration and accelerated the pace of change. With the growing strength of the emerging landlord class, they successively launched political reform movements in various vassal States, and the new system was finally established. Qin, the country with the most thorough political reform, became the strongest of the vassal States and later developed into a unified core force.
It should not be thought that people who exercised political power or bought land for themselves in the late Zhou Dynasty must be descendants of nobles who had ruled vassal States or owned real estate in the early Zhou Dynasty. On the contrary, the driving force of change has led to more and more drastic social changes at the highest political level. Many ancient aristocratic families declined or disappeared, and were replaced by people of humble origins who were not directly related to the top families.