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Classical Chinese address of elders

Honorific terms are used to refer to people or things related to the other party, such as respecting the Shang (called the other party's parents), respecting the public, respecting the monarch, respecting the father (called the other party's father), respecting the Tang (called the other party's mother), respecting the Qin (called the other party's relatives), respecting the driver (called the other party), honorific terms (instructed by the other party) and honorific terms (called the other party's meaning). Xian, used to address peers or younger generations, such as Xian Jia (called the other party), Xian Lang (called the other party's son) and (called the other party's brother). Benevolence, which means love, has a wide range of applications, such as calling me a good friend among friends of the same age who are longer than myself, and calling me a kind person with high status. Call old people husbands and fathers-in-law, such as "I will meet my father-in-law on the road" (The Analects of Confucius). After the Tang Dynasty, husband and wife specifically referred to their wives and fathers, also known as Mount Tai, while their wives and mothers were called husbands and mothers or Taishui. .

China is a country of etiquette, known as the custom of respecting the elderly, and there are many nicknames for the elderly.