"Oh, Uncle Ergou, I was mainly shocked by my aunt's beauty. This aunt is so beautiful, like a fairy. Uncle Ergou, you are so capable that you can get such a beautiful aunt as your wife." Yun Yongbao said after coming to his senses.

"That's more important. In the entire Yunjia Village, no brother has ever asked for a wife that is more beautiful than my daughter-in-law. Why don't you call me aunt?" Yun Tao said.

People like Yuntao who are often outside, just when they return to the village, speak a little messy. Sometimes, when they speak, they unknowingly use the modern, nationally common Mandarin communication method to interfere with local speaking habits; when they return from the village to the city and can speak again, they unknowingly use local speaking habits to communicate with other people from all over the country.

Like Yuntao calling himself, I was a very obvious example, but now it is different from the early days of reform and opening up in the last century, few people went out to work or do business, and everyone's circle was relatively small.

Nowadays, many places are mixed with a large number of people from all over the country, with various speaking habits and dialects in confusion, which makes many people have several dialects and many speaking habits, but they are unconsciously mixed in when communicating. However, most people are used to this way of speaking, so it is no wonder that they can hear it clearly anyway.

"Aunt Ergou, hello, I am your eldest nephew Yun Yongbao." Yun Yongbao said hello to Jingting.

"What are you calling me?" Jing Ting asked stupidly.

"I call you Aunt Ergou, oh, you people in the city may not be used to calling the nickname. The uncle's nickname is Ergou, so I call you Aunt Ergou. If you don't get used to it, I will just call you Aunt Aunt." Yun Yongbao thought that Jing Ting didn't know Yun Tao's nickname, so he explained naturally.

"Ah, I'm your aunt."

Jing Ting was a little stunned. She was only 19 years old. This man who was obviously over fifty years old called her aunt. This pair of Jing Ting, who has been growing up in the city, seems very strange and even a bit unreasonable. After all, there is basically no such a huge age difference in the city, but the name is the opposite phenomenon.

Even if there are people in the city who are over fifty years old, they call their aunt a girl who is over thirty years younger than them. It is estimated that few people in the fifty years old who grew up in the city can call them. Even if they call them, they will be very unnatural and uncomfortable. Anyway, Jing Ting has never seen them, nor has she heard of such things.

However, in rural areas, people are accustomed to this kind of thing. In rural areas, there are sometimes great differences in seniority and age, and it is often not proportional. The phenomenon of young people with older age or lower age is extremely common. It is not surprising that the white-haired old man calls the uncle and the grandfather.

There is a saying in the countryside: "Brothers are big or small, but uncles are not old or young." Because brothers are arranged by age, while uncles and nephews are arranged by age, but by seniority.

The reason why there are huge differences in seniority and age is formed by the unique background in rural areas. There are three main reasons.

First, in the past, when the concept of inheriting the family line was strong and advocated "many people and great power", there were often too many fertility in rural areas, and five or six brothers and sisters were extremely common, and it was not surprising that more than seven or eight were accumulated. The accumulation of "five men and two women" is often enviable.

In this way, the age difference between the eldest and the youngest among brothers and sisters is very large. In addition, early marriage and early childbirth were popular in rural areas in the past. Sometimes even children were married, but the mother was still having children, so there was a phenomenon that uncle and nephew were the same age as the same nephew and nephew were older than uncle.

If generation by generation, the difference between generation and age will become greater and greater. If this is the case between relatives, the huge difference between non-kins will become greater.

Second, in the past, the patriarchal concept in rural areas was extremely important and was a country of etiquette, and it paid great attention to seniority titles. The patriarchal concept also made it impossible for rural areas to use official positions or "masters", "sirs", "lady" and so on, so various titles were derived.

This can be reflected in the diversity of Chinese names. For example, those who are of the same generation as their parents, men include uncles, uncles, uncles, uncles, uncles, uncles, uncles, uncles, cousins, etc.; women include aunts, aunts, aunts, concubines, aunts, aunts, etc.

In English, it is much simpler. Men use an "uncle" and women use an "aunt" to include the above, so these names are mentioned.

Third, in the past, rural areas focused on agriculture and commerce, and relied on land and moved, working at sunrise and resting at sunset. The population flow was extremely small. For thousands of years, living in the same village, resulting in the generations of each other being passed down from generation to generation.

"Then what should I call you?"

Jing Ting asked strangely, Jing Ting didn't know how to respond to such a person older than her father. Calling him an aunt, she didn't seem to be suitable to call him an old man or a nephew.

"Aunt, just call me Yongbao or Abao. Of course, if you call me Xiaobao, there is no problem. Many elders in the village call me that." Yun Yongbao said.

"Okay, I won't tell you anymore. Your aunt and I are going home and are so anxious that we will go home for dinner. Let your aunt give you a gift in a few days."

Yun Tao said that in Yuntao's village, there is such a custom that only people in the village have been added, and elders all have to give gifts. If the people who marry in or marry into the village have higher seniority, in addition to accepting gifts from their elders, they also have to give gifts to people who are younger than them in the village. As for the peers, there is no need to pay attention to them.

As for gifts, there is nothing special about them. It’s just something that is not a taboo. There is no problem with giving a basket of eggs or some fruits. If you have money to send a TV, refrigerator and other electrical appliances, there are no expensive requirements anyway. It depends entirely on your own family situation and your family will decide.

"Okay, then I'll go to the field to work first. If uncle and aunt have time, remember to sit in my house."

After Yun Yongbao finished speaking, he walked towards his own place. Unlike women, men in rural areas like to talk endlessly, they talked and did things more simply, and they didn’t have so many things. During the slack season, they could ask a few people to play cards together, and they didn’t like to talk about other people’s family affairs together in piles.

"Who is he from you? Why is he so old? He still calls you uncle and aunt, and I can hear it strange." Jing Ting couldn't help asking as he watched Yun Yongbao walk away.

"He is my cousin's eldest son. My cousin is about the same age as my grandfather. He got married early and gave birth to my eldest nephew early. My nephew is a few years older than my father. This phenomenon is very common among us. In the future, you will encounter many people who are older than you, calling you aunt, aunt, and some of them who want to call you mother-in-law. Of course, some of them are younger than you. You want to call him elders, but there are fewer of them." Yun Tao said to Jing Ting.

"Why are there fewer people who call him elders younger than me?" Jing Ting asked strangely. It was difficult for Jing Ting, who grew up in the city to understand.

After all, this phenomenon rarely occurs in cities. On the one hand, the reason is that urban people pay more attention to the quality of life, so they are often unwilling to have too many children, so there is little difference in age among brothers and sisters; on the other hand, the population mobility of urban residents is extremely strong, and neighbors are often updated. Faced with people who are not acquainted but have no connections, they naturally have to determine their names based on their age, so they cannot form a huge gap between generations and ages like those in rural areas.

"Because I have a relatively large seniority," Yun Tao explained.

"What is seniority? Sister Zeng, is it the same for you?" Jing Ting asked curiously.

"We are the same here. We pay great attention to seniority in rural areas. As for what seniority is and how it comes from, I don't know. Husband, do you know?" Zeng Quan said.

"I just know a little, not too specific." Yun Tao said. When he was in college, Yun Tao had specially checked this information.

In the feudal era in the past, people paid great attention to generations, especially among their families and clans. When they proposed marriages and mediation, they should first discuss the Qing generation; when new daughters-in-laws passed by, they should recognize their relatives from each other; when children were named, they should also follow the ancestral system and name them according to generations.

For large families, each generation has special characters for naming them, such as the "Chang" generation, "Da" generation, "Yong" generation, etc. of our Yun family. At the same time, we must strictly avoid taboos, that is, the names cannot have the same words as those of the previous generation. If we do not follow these generation rules, we will be called a messenger, and a messenger is a very ridiculous thing. Therefore, generational titles are regarded as natural, and rural people are also used to it. Regardless of the generational age, the call will be natural and the respondent will be calm.

Those who work outside, no matter how high the status or the status is, must follow the customs and abide by the people. Among the people, observing the rituals is an important part of ethics and morality, and are an important criterion for measuring a person's moral cultivation. If this standard is violated, it will be criticized and despised by neighbors and villagers.

In different occasions, seniors and low generations have different behavioral rules. In serious and solemn occasions such as weddings and weddings, brothers' separation, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law disputes, clan affairs, etc., the elders naturally have more say. At this time, young people with higher generations can denounce the elderly with lower generations, while the latter can only be submissive and respectful.

However, people with low generations do not feel inferior because of this, because from the reasons for the generation, we can know that the lower generations, the more prosperous the family members are, which is very proud of in the rural areas in the past.

In many festive and lively occasions, it is the world of juniors. They can make some harmless jokes or even relaxed pranks. As long as it is not too much, they are allowed, while those with higher seniority are not so free and casual. Otherwise, the new wife's words "old man" will definitely make you blush and retreat with embarrassment. Therefore, there is a rule in rural areas that "woman rather sit on your younger brother-in-law's legs than live in front of your eldest uncle."

However, with the changes of the times, with the renewal of ideas and the implementation of family planning, the phenomenon of more births and more children in cities no longer exists, and the soil with huge gaps in age and seniority gradually disappears; and with the fading of patriarchal concepts and the popularity of fashion concepts, people no longer pay much attention to seniority. In addition to the strict evaluation of generations among their families and families, other people, especially young people, if they are not in solemn occasions, their seniority titles will gradually become blurred, and those with little age difference will be called by names.
Chapter completed!