Is it common for uncles to raise nephews in real life in China?

"Uncle raises nephew", "adopts nephew as his own son without a son" and "property is not left to his daughter's nephew" ... This phenomenon is relatively easy to happen in ancient times. In modern times, if it is a big city, it is rare. This phenomenon is also easy to occur in remote areas such as rural areas, especially where the clan concept is particularly heavy.

Because, in the final analysis, in the ancient clan culture, the daughter will get married sooner or later, not counting her own family and her daughter's children? Even less. Daughters can get some dowry when they get married, but when their parents die, how can the property be divided with the house? Don't even think about it. My daughter is married. Whose parents are taking care of her? They are the husband's parents, and their parents are taken care of by their brother. After the daughter gets married, she also lives with her husband. The child born has her husband's surname, which is the genealogy of her husband's family and kowtows to her husband's ancestors. Clan, that is, paternal family, is calculated according to which family everyone belongs to, and his father is calculated according to his father, and so on ... except for some special marriage forms, such as "on-site son-in-law", this situation is calculated according to the family where his mother lives.

Therefore, according to this logic, your brother's son, that is, nephew, still belongs to your family's blood, and comes down in one continuous line with you. Generally speaking, the first choice for "adoption" is naturally a boy of your own race. Your own brother's son, cousin's son, distant cousin's son, clan brother's son ... you belong to the same family. For people with strong traditional concept and clan concept, they will think that the inheritance given to their daughters will be given to people with other surnames sooner or later, while nephews and nephews are their own sons when they don't have their own sons, and nephews share their own surnames and are the same ancestors.

In ancient times, there were some customs, such as asking my brother-in-law to supervise when sharing property. Why not uncles? Because there is a competitive relationship between uncles and your father, we should avoid suspicion. As an outsider in this family, my uncle can't inherit, but he is also the representative of the hostess's family and the elder of his nephews. Of course, if there is no support from the old uncle, the child is still young, and the male owner dies, there are also incidents in which uncles and uncles bully their sisters-in-law and nephews and then seize property. ...