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A cousin is a relative in which kinships?

The daughter of an aunt, uncle or aunt who is older than oneself is called a cousin.

The daughter of an aunt, uncle or uncle who is older than oneself is called a "cousin", or in some official languages and in Southern Fujian, an "uncle's sister" (叔伯阿姐).

The daughters of aunts, uncles or uncles who are younger than oneself are called cousins.

The daughters of uncles or aunts who are younger than themselves are called "cousin sisters", or in some official languages, "uncle's little sister" (叔伯小妹).

Extended information:

The parents' cousins are also cousins to their children, and are called second cousins in modern subdivisions, while the direct descendants of the parents' siblings are are called first cousins. And so on, there are third and fourth generations, and so on.

And "cousin uncle" relationship is the closest relatives of the parents of the first representative of the brother, belonging to my second representative of the relatives), will be added in front of the word to distinguish between the distant room, known as the "distant cousin", "distant cousin uncle", "distant cousin" and so on. "etc. At the same time, "distant cousin" also refers to all non-generational cousins.

In cultures outside of East Asia, such cousins are referred to as first cousins if they are not distinguished as being from the paternal or maternal side of the family.

There are different understandings of cousins and cousins in different cultures. In East Asian cultures, especially Chinese culture, there is a strict distinction between cousins and cousins. In English, on the other hand, the word cousin summarizes both cousin and cousin.

Chinese culture has the taboo of not marrying someone with the same surname. Therefore marriage and sexual relations between cousins are considered incest. From the Song Dynasty onwards, cousins with the same surname formed close-knit clans. The social pattern of people living together in clans lasted until the 20th century.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Cousins

Baidu Encyclopedia - Cousins