What is the relationship between cousins?

Hello, my cousin is * * * dad's equal brother.

In our traditional address in China, all relatives of the father's side are called "Tang", such as uncles, uncles' children, and we all call them cousins, cousins and cousins, while children of menstruating families, uncles' families and aunts' families are called cousins, cousins and cousins. What do you mean by hall and table respectively?

Why are uncles and aunts' brothers and sisters called cousins and uncles and aunts' cousins called cousins?

Actually! Compared with the English appellation that grandparents are indistinguishable from grandparents, uncles are indistinguishable, aunts and menstruation are indistinguishable, we China people clearly know that mom's parents have become grandparents, which reflects the dominant position of patriarchal society in China traditional culture. So there is a distinction between "internal relatives and external relatives", that is, all relatives who take their father as the main line and relatives who take their mother as the main line outside.

Why are uncles and aunts' brothers and sisters called cousins and uncles and aunts' cousins called cousins?

The so-called hall can be understood as a hall or an ancestral hall, because both the hall and the ancestral hall are places where people of the same clan get together to discuss or sacrifice their ancestors. Generally speaking, cousins are brothers with grandfathers, that is, children of uncles, because we all have grandfathers, and we can also be called uncles. But in the southern countryside, a family can also be divided into cousins. For example, it is often said that "four generations live under one roof", that is, from the bottom up, sons, fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers live under one roof, based on great-grandfathers. The descendants of the following families are called cousins, and so on, and then up, five generations live under one roof, and cousins are the fathers of great-grandfathers. Descendants of grandfather's uncle or his great-grandfather branch can call each other cousins. If it goes beyond the five generations, it is Wuyi, which should be called "distant brothers" or cousins.

Why are uncles and aunts' brothers and sisters called cousins and uncles and aunts' cousins called cousins?

Then, why do we call menstruating children, menstruation's children and uncle's children cousins? In fact, the meaning of table here is outside, appearance, because outside is synonymous with table. Mom's parents are called grandparents, grandparents' grandchildren, and we are called cousins, uncles and menstruating children. We are also called cousins, which is not interesting. However, due to the particularity of China people's expressions, foreign brothers and sisters sound awkward, and the dining table is not so straightforward compared with the outside. Not only does it sound good, but it has not lost the meaning of this relationship. If summed up in one sentence, the hall belongs to in-laws, the table belongs to consorts, and the hall and table are the differences between in-laws and consorts.