As with most family clans, siblings usually stayed within their clans with their families, unless they married out. In most cases, the bigger the family, the more persons married into it, unless there were extenuating circumstances. When a clan head was chosen, siblings would usually become elders while the previous generation would retire to spend their time peacefully cultivating, only interfering if the decisions made would affect the family. They made up the foundation of any given clan. The more seniors they had, the higher the strength of the family.