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The well-field system or well-and-field system was a Chinese land redistribution method existing between the eleventh or tenth century BCE to around the Warring States period. Though Mencius describes examples from the Xia and Shang dynasties, these could be mythological or imagined, and credited King Wen of Zhou as one of the persons enacting the system. The name comes from Chinese character 井 which looks like the number sign (#); this character represents the theoretical appearance of land division: a square area of land was divided into nine identically sized sections; the eight outer sections were privately cultivated by farmers, one of the occupations of the four occupations system; and the center section was communally cultivated on behalf of the government, or in some cases, the landowning aristocrat or duke.
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