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Aforementioned "collateral relatives by blood up to the third degree of kinship" include: full and half siblings; uncles and niece; aunt and nephew; first cousins (which is counted as fourth degree of kinship in Roman civil law tradition) In Imperial China (221 BCE to 1912), marriage between first cousins was partially allowed.
The Chinese kinship system (simplified Chinese: 亲属系统; traditional Chinese: 親屬系統; pinyin: qīnshǔ xìtǒng) is among the most complicated of all the world's kinship systems. It maintains a specific designation for almost every member's kin based on their generation, lineage, relative age, and gender.
The nine familial exterminations, nine kinship exterminations, or execution of nine relations, also known by the names zuzhu ("family execution") and miezu ("family extermination"), was the most severe punishment for a capital offense in premodern China, Korea, and Vietnam.
China has prohibited first-cousin marriage since 1981. [111] Currently, according to the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China, Article 7, "No marriage may be contracted under any of the following circumstances: (1) if the man and the woman are lineal relatives by blood, or collateral relatives by blood up to the third degree of kinship."
The degree of kinship between two people may give rise to several legal issues. Some laws prohibit sexual relations between closely related people, referred to as incestuous . Laws may also bar marriage between closely related people, which are almost universally prohibited to the second degree of consanguinity.
Outer kins (Traditional Chinese: 表親、外戚, lit. "outer family", "out of household") is the kinship clan in Chinese patriarchy. This term usually referred to the maternal and all descendants of female members of the clan. After a woman was married (transplanted“嫁”) into a man's family, her husband's family possessed her.
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Kin punishment is the practice of punishing the family members of someone who is accused of committing a crime, either in place of or in addition to the perpetrator of the crime.