What does cousin mean? What is its origin?

Jiangxi laobiao, Jiangxi people's address to fellow villagers in the same province, has a certain intimacy. Cousin Jiangxi has also become a kind name for Jiangxi people from other provinces. In addition, some people who immigrated from Jiangxi to other provinces from Ming and Qing Dynasties to modern times also kept the title of "old cousin", such as Hunan and northern Fujian. At present, there is no recognized view on the origin of the word "Jiangxi cousin", and opinions vary:

1. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, many areas in eastern Hunan were deserted due to war, and a large number of Jiangxi people moved to Hunan. Later, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of Jiangxi people moved in, and even nine out of ten households in some places came from Jiangxi. When these descendants of Jiangxi people who moved to Hunan returned to Jiangxi to pay homage to their ancestral graves, they liked to call local Jiangxi people cousins, meaning cousins. This is the legend of Guan Hu Guang in Jiangxi, and it is also the most popular statement about the origin of the word Lao Biao.

2. Zhu Yuanzhang was killed and saved when he was not an emperor. In order to repay the kindness of Jiangxi people, he promised that if he won the world, Jiangxi people could directly find him in the name of an old cousin.

3. Originated in the Hakka area in southern Jiangxi, Cantonese who moved from eastern Guangdong called the local people "old cousins" (because both places are Hakka), and later spread to the whole of Jiangxi, becoming another name for "hometown".

4. Taoism and geomantic omen have prevailed in Jiangxi since ancient times. People in nearby provinces like to invite Mr. Feng Shui from Jiangxi to see Feng Shui. As a feng shui master, the dial is a necessity, and mainlanders call these Jiangxi feng shui with old watches. Over time, it is also used to address all Jiangxi people.

Yunnan old watches: including Lincang, Chuxiong, Kunming and other places, are generally called "old watches", "Abiao" and "Abiao" by male friends; For female friends who are familiar with each other, they are called "cousins"; Especially the Yi compatriots in Lincang and Chuxiong will be affectionately called "A Cousin" or "A Cousin" if they are unfamiliar with their activities such as singing songs and losing packets during the Torch Festival. This kind of address is only used locally and is generally not used in written language. First, the father's sisters and their children, the mother's brothers and sisters and their children are called "old cousins", which means: cousins. Mostly used in northern areas. Children of brothers of the same father call each other "cousins". )

Second, it refers to grandparents' "aunts, uncles, cousins", and grandchildren call them "cousins". Cousins generally refer to uncles and uncles' children. More common in northern China.