In the past, rural areas were different from cities. There are hundreds of people in a small village, from old to young, and almost all of them know each other except the children who are just born.
And between neighbors, between adults and children, generations can be arranged. When you meet, you must say hello, and you must always call yourself first to show respect and education.
Through years of children's marriage, the Zhang family pulls the Li family, the Li family is attached to the Zhao family, and the Zhao family and the Wang family all have unspeakable relationships. They can almost all be discharged, and even make some generational oolong.
Moreover, it is very complicated, and people who are not very smart really don't understand it. Although the line is getting farther and farther, it is far beyond the five clothes, and even the eight poles can't be played. You must have a name, and you must never call it by its first name. That would be too uncultured.
I was very slow in this regard when I was a child. I don't know how to address my elders, and because I don't know how to address them, I simply don't say hello, or even avoid meeting them by avoiding them.
However, sometimes it doesn't work. For example, if there are guests at home, there is no way to avoid them, so we have to bite the bullet and meet them, or keep silent, or make a hullabaloo about, and I don't know if it's right. If I make a mistake, my parents will find out and correct it, but I will blush with embarrassment. I don't like greeting guests more and more in the future.
In this way, if the guests leave, they will definitely be accused of being unruly and even scolded by their parents.
The normal generation is easy to handle. The key point is that I am extremely reluctant to talk when I meet the generation gap. For example, the Zhao family in my front yard, I don't know where it came from. The couple in that family are only less than ten years older than my parents. I should call her grandma, not their children, grandparents. There is a girl in her family who is only two years older than me. I should call him Gu Mu, two generations older than me. I think this is too unreasonable.
We used to live in the front and back yard and met almost every day. When I was a child, I often came to our house to play. What I can't accept most is that she actually enjoys my calling her Gu Mu, and that shameless expression fills my heart with disgust. Of course, I don't want to scream. There is a feeling that the poor are used to the landlord's lack of milk. She went to my mother and told me that I didn't call her grandma.
The most incomprehensible thing is that when she grows up, she calls me parents Xiao Wang! My parents are twenty years older than her! Every time I see her calling my mother Xiao Wang, I have an impulse to go up and slap her mouth.
Later, my uncle's cousin fell in love with her old menstruation and got married again soon. This generation must be recent. As a result, her generation suddenly dropped by four generations, and she had to take turns calling me uncle. Fortunately, she is no longer so arrogant and never comes to my house to play again.
When I met her, she avoided me as I avoided her. When it's really unavoidable, you look down on me. I deliberately chatted with her and said that she was rude and didn't know how to respect her elders. I was so angry that she covered her face and ran away.