I don't know if these are planned, but anyway it's not mentioned in DD.
- Filial Mourning（丁忧）. As I've posted in another thread, filial mourning is an important part in the life of ancient Chinese. If someone didn't perform filial mourning, he would be condemned as immoral, especially high-rank bureaucrats. The only exception is emperor himself. During an filial mourning, one is supposed to live a simple life, sometimes even ascetic, for 3 years. During a filial mourning, you may not take part in imperial exam, nor become a bureaucrat.
- Shifu(师父), I use this Chinese word mainly because it's not traditional tutor-student relaionship as Europe. In China, an ideal student should respect his teacher as if the teacher was his father. Such relationship is not only among Confucianists. Monks and Daoshi in China also follows a similar tradition. This was even more important for them, as some of them have abandoned their secular life. This also acts as a way for scholars to expand their influence, especially if you are the shifu of Taizi.
- Adoption. In China (and Japan), not only the minor may be adopted. Nominal adoption and bloodbrothers was quite common among generals in China, especially during Five dynasties period. They use it as a way to expand their influence in army. Even if it's mostly nominal, the adopted sons may often try to seize the power after their death, over their biological child.
- A typical is Li Keyong (李克用), he became bloodbrother of Yelü Abaoji of Khitan hoping to form an alliance against his enemy but was betrayed. After his death, his biological son succeeded, but was killed by rebels. After that, the power came to the hand of his adopted son A, then the adopted son B of adopted son A.
- In some rare cases, one may even be the "son" of a younger guy, namely the infamous Shi Jingtang (892-942), who was criticized for ceding land to Khitans.
- Priviledge for Gentrys. I know no one who had experienced pre-Mandate-of-Heaven EU4 would forget it but I'll put it forward anyway. Since Song dyansty, those have passed xiangshi would have a tax break. The emperor uses this way to encourage scholars to become bureacrats. This would make starting as no one a bit more challenging, and produce some real benefit for taking part in xiangshi. Even in Ming China, if not recognized as part of the elites by the government, it would be kind of hard to protect your fortune, as a corrupted bureaucract may blackmail you at almost no cost.
- No Mercenaries. Possessing armors in ancient China would be viewed as rebels, so it's hard to imagine some mercenaries in ancient China. Instead, emperors and governers would hire nearby tribesman to aid them in war. These tribesman would be rewarded gold, nominal government posts and friendship with high rank officials. Playing as a minor tribe in or bordering China may not be quite interesting an experience, but with similar mechanism it may become a lot easier for them to develop their domains.
- Winding Stream Party. (曲水流觞) Since Wang Xizhi (303-361), it has been publicly viewed as an elegant activity, where scholars come together, share their thoughts, compose poetries, drink tea, have a feast and play party games. I mention this because current feast activity doesn't quite match it, hoping to see a variation in All Under Heaven.
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