今天的舅指的是母亲的兄弟,姑指的是父亲的姐妹,而在古代,舅指公公(丈夫的父亲),姑指婆婆(丈夫的母亲)。为什么会有这种称呼呢?这与古代的婚姻习俗有关。古人认为同姓为婚,其生不蕃,因此严禁在本氏族内部通婚,不论男女必须与外氏族通婚,这样构成了一个婚姻集团,往往同部落的两个氏族世代互为婚姻。这样,两个通婚的氏族彼此嫁女,实际上是姑舅结亲:女方的公公正是母亲 Today’s uncle refers to the mother’s brother, aunt refers to the father’s sister, and in ancient times, uncle refers to the father (husband’s father), regardless of her mother (husband’s mother). Why do you have this name? This is related to the ancient marriage customs. The ancients believed that marriages of the same surname were not born in the same clan. Therefore, it was strictly forbidden to marry within this clan, whether men and women had to marry with other clans, thus forming a marriage group, often marrying each other with two clan generations of the tribe. In this way, two marriages clan marry each other, in fact, uncle married: the woman’s father is the mother