What is a cousin and what is a cousin?

The children of the mother's brothers and sisters are all cousins. The children of fathers and sisters are also cousins. In other words, my aunt's children are cousins. Only the children of the father's brother are cousins. According to the general traditional custom in China, a cousin has the same surname as someone. Traditionally, the same surname means belonging to the same family. Although cousins are related to someone by the same distance. But just because they share the same surname, they distinguish cousins. Then a cousin can also be defined from this angle: the younger of the women of the same age who are related by blood, the cousin with the same surname as someone, and the cousin with a different surname from someone.

Cousins in the patriarchal society; Cousin generally refers to the same grandfather, that is, the daughter of father and brother, younger than himself. It can also be the same great-grandfather, the same family, or a person older than himself is a distant cousin, also called a cousin. They are the same generation as you, usually with the same surname, also called cousins.

In matriarchal society; Cousin generally refers to the same grandmother, that is, the daughter of mother and sister, younger than herself. It can also be the same great-grandfather, the same family, or a person older than himself is a distant cousin, also called a cousin. They are the same generation as you, usually with the same surname, also called cousins.