Mother-in-law, mother-in-law.

Mother in law is the wife's mother, called wife's mother as Taishui, some regions called wife's mother as Damiang. The title "mother-in-law" is relative to "father-in-law"." Shatin, "In the Ancestral Hall": "The company commander wrenched his arm from the mother-in-law, crossed into the hall, and rushed into the bedchamber.

The name given by men to their wives' mothers.

Mother-in-law, a common name, refers specifically to the mother of the wife (madam, wife, lover, wife).

Expanded:

Mother in law. p>Other meanings of "mother-in-law": to honor a father's wife

This explanation is probably a generalization from the original meaning of "father-in-law". In other words, "mother-in-law" means the wife of the father-in-law, i.e., an elderly woman.

Shanxi, Xianyang, Ning County, Gansu and Zhengning County and other areas are also known as "mother-in-law aunt".

According to legend, father-in-law and mother-in-law have another nickname: zhou, zhang mother. "Joe" was originally an ancient honorific for the eldest man, a man seventy years old can be rewarded by the government cane.

"Walking stick" of the "staff" was first written "zhang", so "zhang" is the old man holding a walking stick. cane" is the old man holding a walking stick, given a walking stick is a kind of honor, so this respect for the elderly man, and later slowly evolved into the wife's father's special name, the wife's mother is also naturally known as "mother-in-law" or "mother-in-law".

Baidu Encyclopedia - Mother-in-Law

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