The Complicated Chinese Family Tree

What about great grandparents?

It’s great to be precise and specific! That way it’s easy to pinpoint whose who! Like cousins Max and Emily would call 大姨 大姑姑 because they’re my 舅舅’s children! My Dad got upset and angry with me while saying something about the last girlfriend and this cousin is related to him by marriage and affinity!

Dunno if you guys are still up and going, but... I'd love to buy the poster now, in 2023. The site linked is dead, apparently.

Aaaaaaaaagh this is soo confusing!!!!😫

This looks like Hmong stuff.

what about the thing in webnovels calling someone first second third...twentieth brother/uncle/sister?

Can you post a downloadable, high-res poster of this with the hanzi and pinyin for everything? This would be a great aid to me.

Edit: It seems like you used to provide this resource, but the link is broken. :(

Imma just call every female i see 姐姐 or 妹妹 and every male i see 叔叔, 哥哥, or 弟弟 atp💀

Bro the teacher wants me to learn this in 4th grade

The video uses 舅舅 for the mother's older brother and younger brother, which is true, but in reality, you want to differentiate the 2 brothers of the mother's side of the family. So, the older brother would be 大舅 and the younger brother would be 小舅 and, if there are more brothers, then the second oldest brother would be 二舅. Also, the video uses 舅母 which would be more formal, but directly, you would call the mother's brother's wife 舅妈.

A lot of this stuff is based on the region or place in China, and it may also vary between families. Between families of the same location, there is not much variation. But between 2 places, there may be a lot of variation.

So what if there's more than one 表妹? Like what if I'm the eldest in the family and there are 4+ 表妹 (from different uncles and aunts), how do I differenciate between them? 大表妹，二表妹，三表妹..？ But how to differenciate between uncle's daughters and aunt's daughters? Or do I just call all of them 表妹?

婆婆 and 公公 are southern terms, in the north mom's parents are 姥姥 and 姥爷.

And as far as I can tell most younger people have thrown out the 堂 terms for cousins and just use 表~ for everyone. I think in today's world it's less essential to distinguish which family members you share a last name with.

This just hits so different after a year of watching Chinese dramas 😂😂😂

Pa Ma Ama Akung Saeku Ngiku Taiku Saesuk Samsuk Kiumae Samku Apho Yipho Yi Ku Ko Jae Samsukkung Saesukkung ....

I'm Thai Chinese and these are all the Hakka terms I can recall that I have used or heard of. There might be more, but even then I still don't know the positions of these people on the family tree. I just call them that 😂.

Can someone link me to the behind the scenes video? I can’t find it

Now if someone is LGBTQ, things get even more complicated

Just say "hi"

same like pakistan

Is this a course in Chinese schools?.
Do Chinese people actually remember all this?
I have enough trouble just remembering my relatives' names.

LOL!
🤣 THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST THING THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME..

唔鍾意普通話

Some of them are wrong, and some of them are used in Southern China. But it showed the extensive vocab for family members.

This video is still just as fun as the first time I saw it years ago lmao. I went to Taiwan this winter (2022-23) and the cousins and aunts and uncles were arguing about what our cousins kids should be calling us and one of my other cousins (one of the younger ones but older than me) was like 叫姐姐、叫哥哥 😂 she’s like it’s fine a bunch of us are in our 20s still and we could pass for it 😂

What's the music in this video?

很简单！

How do you call your big brother’s wife’s mother?

Yeah, much of these titles are necessitated by the phenomenon of the one name village. All these family members might have the same surname

I knew I should have taken French.
So long 我死了

Having now watched 2 or three .... okay, 120 ... Chinese dramas, I would like to say a special thanks for not including all those "nominal" geges, jiejies, and ayis .... lol ...

Please do this with Simplified Chinese text too 🙏🙏🙏

Can’t stop watching

How is it so complex?……..wow

Lol I need this explanation a little slower please

Thanks! I’m Filipino but I need to put my whole family tree for my project. I have so many cousins so this really helped!

Wow a lot to remember

Its still not complete/some terms have changed... especially if it is more than 1 same gender sibling.

This always brings me back to those memories where some former friend kicked my lower legs like shins and thighs and then I visit relatives like brother-in-laws and uncles! Some counselors from college stated that religious beliefs are NOT genetics!

I was going to reference this tree, then I realized that the names used here adhere to the southern standard and many of the names are totally changed for northerners, and all of a sudden the way you call your in laws and in law's brothers and sisters are being confused with the way you would refer to your grand parents on your mom's side and your aunts and uncles on your dad's side. Oh also you call your in laws father and mother in person but refer to them with formal titles when you talk about them with other people. So confusing.

Ok, so, who is my waifu?

I can relate to this sometimes I even get the names mixed up.

My family Tree is complicated because to many people (population). That’s why other Chinese people are becoming strangers*. So yeah we don’t even know each other, China is the greatest *POPULATION in the world.

Our Ancestors didn’t talk about other family or siblings or cousins?! ITS COMPLICATED

CHINA is our family, why are our ancestors split up/separately. Mostly they moved in another country like in Indonesian, Japan (be4 was Chinese/non-Chinese), Korean (non-Chinese), Thailand, USA & etc (other ASEAN/ASIAN TOO)

We shouldn’t have to worship our ancestors, who created our Ancestor. It’s God (Yahweh/Jehovah/Elohim), they are really wrong 😑

Why?! 😝😝 And yet they don’t suggest that time has passed, do they?! 😝😂 Who’s initially gonna care if your brother is older or younger and if your uncle is your mum’s brother or your dad’s?! 😝😂

There are also regional variations.

It's like they're trying to win the record for most words.

first time I came to china to visit my families relatives, I essentially could barely talk because I didn't know how and what to say.
you eventually get used to it though.

Thankfully the Chinese Communists have obliterated all brothers and sisters aunts and uncles by their ONE CHILD POLICY. No one has cousins in China.

You forgot the siblings of your grandparents

This is why they introduced a one child policy 😂😂

1/3rd Cantonese, a 16th Hawaiian, and rest is White (look mostly White, but peoplebthat can tell think I am sort of Puerto Rican). I tried to impress my Kapuna (Chinese) by learning Chinese. She asked me why would I torture myself like that. I ended up not completing the class because of this exact reason.

now add same sex relationships