The Complicated Chinese Family Tree
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- čas přidán 25. 02. 2013
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Did you know that every member of a Chinese family is called something different? Depending on whether it's from your mom's side or your dad's side and their seniority? It gets quite confusing, so we will draw it out for you in a family tree and hope you can learn some Chinese along the way! :) Please don't mind our terrible handwriting!
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Note: There are still many more ways to call the same person, for example husband's mother can be called 家姑，家婆，婆婆 or 奶奶. This all depends on where you are from. To keep it simple, we just chose the more generic terms.
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This is why they introduced the one child policy.
I'm not only confused at the chinese names, but AMAZED at how you had each one look different.
It's so complicated that it confuses even native speakers of Chinese.
When your teacher asks for a family tree and an A4 sheet of paper just isn't enough.
And this is why we don't have family reunions
The first half can be summed up in one word in english: cousin
It a bit hard to learn all the names for the different people, but at the same time they are making things easy for themselves. With just one word they can instantly tell you who their talking about instead of having to say "my great granddaughter from my daughter´s side husband".
when even ur Chinese friends get confused
This is why Chinese have much lower divorce rate, becuz you didn't just marry the other half but the entire FAMILY!
My head hurts now.
This isn't a family tree....
The Chinese Family Tree is definitely the most complicated thing ever
This is why every time when a family comes over or when I go to China for a visit I ask my parent, how do I call them?
I am a Chinese. Cool, right? Well...
In different places of China，we also have different names for them. I'm not talking about dialect，I'm talking about some vocabulary that mean the same thing.
I'm Chinese and I've long since given up on any of this. It's actually really impressive that she can remember all that.
It's actually easier than it seems in the video. Besides mom dad grand blabla, there are only 5 basic titles 姨，姑，舅，叔，伯.
I'm Chinese yet watching this video confused me..T^T
Ahh，the beauty of Chinese. This is what happens when the culture is around 5000 years old.
That moment when you realize your whole life might not be long enough to remember and understand this four-minute lesson.