Mom. What are the names in China?

In spoken language, mother has many different names, including mother, mother, mommy (Cantonese pronunciation from English "mommy") or grandma. In some areas, children (especially in ancient times) called their mothers mother, aunt or mother, as well as grandmother, old lady (in Cantonese, "spinster" refers to middle-aged or elderly maid) and old mother. To others, a person's mother is called my mother and kindness, and her dead mother is called Xiancong. To others, a person's mother is called your mother or the hall of mourning. What needs special attention is that sometimes the father or mother's husband (stepfather) will also use the children's address to the mother (mother or mother) to represent his wife.

Children of different ages address their mothers differently. In infancy and childhood, children usually use some kind names, such as mother. After youth, the address is usually mom or something. Others, such as mommy, mom and grandma, can be found in most age groups.

Among the ancient Han royal families in China, the princes and princesses born to the empress called their mothers the queen, and the children born to the imperial concubines were required to recognize the empress as the first mother, and the princes and their children also called their mothers the concubines. Princes and princesses in the Qing Dynasty called their mothers emperors. The English word "Queen Mother" refers to the mother of the current king or queen, that is, the queen mother, but the queen mother includes the former queen who is not the mother of the current monarch.

In a polygamous family in China, the father's wife is the first mother relative to an illegitimate child. They call the first mother "Auntie" and "Auntie". The father's concubine is an ordinary mother compared with the children born to the master room or other concubines. Children will call her "little mother", "mother X" (X is the ranking among wives and concubines), "aunt" and "aunt". People think that the names "Auntie" and "Auntie" originated from the names of mothers and sisters in some areas.