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People in Beijing call men who are older than their fathers uncle. Remember, the pronunciation is the soft tone of "ye". If the pronunciation is the second tone, it doesn't mean the same thing. It is a name for a person with status, wealth or influence, and it has nothing to do with age. One year, I had dinner with the late cross talk actor Xiao Lin. During the dinner, he asked me why Beijingers love to make fun of uncles and often scold them. I laughed. It was a unique cultural phenomenon in Beijing. Let me tell you this, you see people in Beijing fighting, scolding each other, scolding each other, and even some assholes scolding each other's parents and even ancestors, but you have never seen anyone scolding an uncle.
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