What is the difference between a cousin and a cousin?

The difference between cousins lies in their blood relationship. Cousins are children related to their father's uncle, and cousins are children related to their mother's uncle and sister's aunt, but the relationship is similar.

The kinship of the Han nationality is orderly: the older generation is called uncle, the same generation has brothers and sisters, and the next generation has nephews. Kinship is a social relationship based on marriage, consanguinity and legal fiction.

Kinship classification

According to the causes of kinship, relatives can be divided into three categories: spouse, blood relatives and in-laws.

Blood relatives include natural blood relatives and fictional blood relatives, the former refers to relatives who are related by the same ancestor; The latter refers to relatives who have no such blood relationship with each other, but are legally recognized as having the same rights and obligations as this blood relationship because they meet certain conditions. For example, their stepparents and stepchildren, adoptive parents and adopted children are fictitious blood relatives, and adopted brothers and sisters are also fictitious blood relatives.

In-laws refer to relatives other than spouses who are mediated by marriage, including blood spouses, blood spouses and blood spouses. In-laws have rights and obligations only under special circumstances stipulated by law.

Blood relatives can also be divided into direct blood relatives and collateral blood relatives. The former refers to the relatives who have given birth to themselves and their generations. The latter refers to relatives who are indirectly related to each other except direct blood relatives.