1. In the ancient patriarchal clan system, the arrangement order of the gods in the ancestral hall or ancestral hall was in the middle, and the following father and son (ancestors and fathers) made Zhao Mu, Zhao was on the left and Mu was on the right. Li Zhou Guan Chun Xiao Zongbo: "Distinguish Zhao Mu of the Temple." Zheng Xuan's note: "The father is Zhao, and the son is Mu.
2. refers to the same ancestor. Yan Zhitui in the Northern Qi Dynasty wrote "Yan Family Instructions and Wind Exercises": "Jiangnan customs have been passed down since then, and those with high official ranks are proud of calling each other Zhao Mu, although they are still called brothers for a hundred years; You call it to others, they are all Yuns. "
3. Left and right order of burial places in the cemetery. Li Zhouguan Chun Turen: "The burial of the former king was centered on Zhao Mu." Zheng Xuan's note: "The former king made the shackles, Zhao Ju left, Mu Ju right, and clamped things." Fang Ming's Xiao You An Ji: "See the tomb of Zi Si, and Zhao Mu ordered someone to bury it.
In ancient times, children and grandchildren arranged and saluted according to the provisions of patriarchal clan system. "Book of Rites": "The husband sacrifices Zhao Mu, so there is no disorder in the order of father and son, distance, age and closeness." In Xiao Ting's Miscellaneous Laws written by Zhao Lian in Qing Dynasty, the country was still on the right at the beginning of the country: "Sacrifice to the gods, the east is glorious, and the rest are Zhao Mu, respectively."
5. General clan relationship. Jin Panyue's Yang Jingzhou: "The Ministry has its own week, Zhao Mu is prosperous, and the branch is divided with Shu Ren." New Tang Book Du Chuan: "South of the City and Du Zhao Mu Su Garden." Ming Xu Lin's Embroidery and Motherhood: "My family will be reelected, wait for me.
6. According to the order of generations, arrange them from top to bottom. It also refers to the order of this arrangement. "Wake up, Qian Xiucai mistakenly occupied the Phoenix Valley": "Qian Qing condescended to the younger generation, but refused again and again and had to sit down." The fifth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, the third chapter: "See Jia people and Zhao Mu separated and moved."