What are the reasons why aunts, uncles and cousins are not relatives?

China attaches great importance to the tradition of filial piety. In the former countryside, kinship and consanguinity were highly valued. In the village, the more prosperous your family is, the more relatives help each other, and the status in the village is naturally incomparable to other small families. Therefore, in the mode of getting along with others, they summed up some ways to get along with each other and compiled them into proverbs that have been passed down to this day, such as "aunt, cousin, second aunt, not relatives" is one of them. Bian Xiao will tell you the meaning of this sentence today.

Generally in rural areas, people will divide relatives into three categories: three relatives and three relatives. For example, aunt, uncle and uncle are three relatives, and uncle, aunt and uncle are three relatives. This classification is very simple, because aunts, uncles and aunts are all related to us, but uncles, aunts and uncles are not related to us. If there is a family, my grandmother has four children, two sons and two daughters, my uncle's children and my third aunt and sister-in-law's children are aunts, and my third aunt's children and sister-in-law's children are two aunts.

If it is a relative, because my uncle's surname is here, if the child is close, then the next generation is very close. After the aunt gets married, the children will take the uncle's surname. As time goes by, the relationship with the other father will be relatively better. Therefore, by the third generation, there is actually little contact between the children. The less they walk, the feelings between them will gradually weaken, so they are two aunts, not relatives.

Through reasonable relationships, we can actually know the truth. We all know that our son used to live in the countryside with his parents, so he went back to his uncle's house when he went back to his grandparents' house, so his relationship with his uncle was relatively close. Menstruation's family usually walks less, so they will gradually alienate. In the past, people attached great importance to the concept of relatives, probably because they were not far apart in the past. But now with the development of the times, relatives don't live very close, especially the daughter who is married far away. It is very difficult to go home once, so the feelings between children are gradually fading.

This is the meaning of "great-uncle relatives, second cousins, not relatives". What other rural proverbs do you want to know?