Nephews and grandchildren represent the continuation of blood or marriage, and represent a kind of love and concern for future generations. In Chinese character culture, "nephew" represents the children of brothers, and "grandson" refers to the children of daughters. Therefore, grandnephew is the continuation of this title and the connection of marriage.
In kinship, there are certain rules for addressing nephews, grandchildren and relatives. For your grandnephew, you can call him "grandnephew" or "grandnephew" to show your affection and respect. The nephews and grandsons of their brothers and sisters can be called "cousins" or "cousins" to show differences in blood or marriage.
When distinguishing kinship, we can determine kinship according to each other's age and seniority. For example, a boy is his sister's son, that is, his nephew, and a girl is his brother's son and his nephew.
As far as the historical and cultural background is concerned, the evolution of the title of "grandnephew" also reflects the importance attached by China traditional culture to kinship. In ancient society, family was the basic unit of society, and kinship was regarded as one of the most important interpersonal relationships. With the development of modern society, although the importance of kinship has weakened, this title is still used by people, representing the inheritance of a traditional culture.
Evolution of appellation
With the development of human society and cultural exchange, people's address habits are constantly evolving. For example, in ancient China, people's address was very complicated because of various factors such as status, identity, age and gender. Will affect the choice of address, and sometimes they have to use etiquette details to distinguish.
With the continuous progress of society and the development of modern civilization, people pay more and more attention to practicality and simplicity, and the appellation is gradually simplified. For example, in modern Chinese, many people use popular appellations, such as first name, last name, professional appellation or intimate appellation, instead of being too rigid in formal feudal appellation.