2, birthday: date of birth, birthday. Birthdays were widely used in the folk customs of ancient China. Especially in the old days, when engaged, both men and women should write their birthdays on the Geng stickers and exchange them, so as to calculate whether the marriage is happy or not.
3. Birthday: the time of birth, that is, the time of birth. Nowadays, people usually say "birthday" to people they respect.
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Birthday, commonly known as "birthday" and "birthday", generally refers to a big birthday once every ten years. When a newborn baby turns one year old, there will be a "grab week". Children 10 birthday is called "Long Tail", and grandparents or uncles and aunts send meals, clothes, shoes and hats to celebrate.
There are no examples of celebrating the birthdays of middle-aged and young people. As the saying goes, "no three no four" means that people aged 20, 30 and 40 don't celebrate their birthdays, but only add some meat dishes at this age. More often, parents muddle through cooking a few eggs, which is the so-called "little birthday".
People who celebrate their birthdays will first distribute the birthday peach made of steamed rice noodles or flour (the higher the birthday, the bigger the peach) to relatives and friends, and tell them to celebrate an old man's birthday for decades. Birthdays are mainly for son-in-law and daughter-in-law, with son and daughter-in-law as foil.
On birthdays, birthday families send invitations and decorate a birthday hall. In front of the main hall, the word "longevity" is hung in gold, or "a picture of longevity" is hung, and the congratulatory message "Fu Ru Dong Da Ru Hai, Shou Bi Nan Shan" is hung on both sides.
After the birthday hall was set up, the night before the birthday, red candles shone brightly. After burning incense to pay homage to the ancestors of heaven and earth, the birthday boy sat in the hall and was bowed down by his descendants. This is commonly known as "birthday worship". Birthday is the right day. In the early morning, people set off firecrackers and relatives and friends came to congratulate them. This is "birthday worship".