Ancestors of the 18th generation: refers to the clan members of their own nine generations.
The order is: parents, ancestors, great-grandfathers, great-great-grandfathers, heavenly ancestors, fierce ancestors, great-great-grandfathers, distant ancestors and original ancestors.
The next order is: son, grandson, great-great-grandson, great-great-grandson, great-grandson, great-grandson, great-grandson.
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1, Five Blessingg:
With the inheritance of blood, people divide the descendants of the same ancestor into many kinds. People often say that who and who are brothers can't make five clothes, which means that two people are very close.
The so-called five clothes actually refer to yourself and your great-grandfather, great-grandfather and father, just pushing forward four generations from yourself.
2. Six parents:
Some people often use a word to describe people who are inhuman and don't even take care of their relatives-six parents don't recognize them. There have always been many opinions about the six relatives. A well-recognized opinion is that it refers to six kinds of kinship-father and son, brother and brother, father's sister, nephew and uncle, wife's relatives and husband's relatives.
Another way of saying it means father and son, brother and brother, husband and wife. There is also a saying that six parents have become six parents: father, mother, brother, wife and children.
3. Jiuzu:
Generally speaking, the term Jiuzu is used in ancient laws. People who are punished by Jiuzu will inevitably be robbed of their property, because they must be isolated to avoid the danger of retaliation by the prisoners' families. Therefore, these two methods must be used to eradicate the root cause.
This cruel punishment has been popular since the Qin Dynasty. At the beginning, the punishment formulated by Qin Shihuang only implicated three families, and then more and more people were killed slowly. Finally, it killed nine families.
In fact, the so-called nine families refer to the three families of the father, the three families of the mother and the three families of the wife.
But there are different opinions about Jiuzu. Some people say that it started in grandfather's uncle and went all the way to the great-grandchildren. Some people say that there are four fathers, three mothers and two wives. I won't go into details. Anyway, in the eyes of modern people, Jiuzu is a broad concept of relatives.
However, there is something worse than killing Jiuzu. When Fang Xiaoru was killed in the Ming Dynasty, ten of his families were killed at the same time. This tenth family includes his disciples.
4. Eighteen generations of ancestors:
The ancestors of eighteen generations, as the name implies, are all in these eighteen generations. One thing to pay attention to here is self, which is called "self" for short. "Self" is the watershed between the last nine generations and the next nine generations, and it is not included in the "eighteen generations of ancestors".
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-ancestors 18 generations