What does cousin mean?

Category means:

1 refers to the relationship between uncle's daughter-in-law or aunt's daughter-in-law and herself, which means: cousin relationship. Also known as "class".

2. Jiangxi dialect. The meaning is similar to that of "hometown", with a cordial meaning;

3. Sichuan and Chongqing dialects. When the last generation of men and women share the same surname, the next generation of men call each other cousins, which is particularly prominent in Yongchuan, Jiangjin and Li Jiacun. The same surname can't call each other cousin, which is different from the folk culture of local dialects such as Jiannaoke and Huohuolao.

3. In Cantonese, cousin also means cousin. Cousin is generally a general term, not a specific cousin, but an intimate language.

Extended data:

The old cousin is the name of Jiangxi people for their fellow villagers in the same province. It has a certain sense of intimacy and is also called "old cousin". 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.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Old Table