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Thus, the Shang patrilinear system was much less extreme than the later system.
2
Although we do not know much about the general population, we know that the rulers had a patrilinear system of inheritance.
3
In the strongly patriarchal and patrilinear system of the Chou and the developing primogeniture, children of secondary wives had a lower social status.