How to celebrate the 80th birthday?

Shouqing is commonly known as "birthday celebration".

In the past, rich families began to celebrate their birthdays at the age of 60. Birthdays are generally sent invitations to relatives, friends and classmates 1 month in advance, and the birthday hall is arranged three days in advance. In the center of Shoutang, there is an eight immortals high chair covered with brocade, and there is an eight immortals table covered with tablecloth in front of the chair. 1 pairs of big gold candles are lit on the candle tray on the table, and 1 long drawing table is placed on the wall behind the chair. Put a clock in the middle of the table, and put 1 bottle cap with scroll on the left and right of the clock. On the wall is a life screen with 1 hat and gold lettering on red paper.

On the birthday, the person who sent the shroud wore a brocade shroud and sat in a high chair in the middle. The daughter-in-law and grandchild bowed and gave the grandchild money (wrapped in red paper).

The next day was the most lively, receiving guests, relatives and friends who came to congratulate. When a guest sends a birthday present to the gate, the gong-drummer knocks a double-tone gong and shouts "Here comes the guest". The band played music and suona, silk and bamboo sang together. The birthday man sat in a high chair with his eldest son standing beside him. Relatives and friends of the same generation bow in class and call it "birthday". Birthday people get up and return the gift. If subordinates and younger generations bow in class, their sons will reciprocate them. If the tenant comes to congratulate, he will not be allowed to go to class, but will accept the birthday present, take him to the kitchen for dinner, and then leave. If the boss comes to congratulate, the birthday person will go down to class immediately, bow and accompany him into the living room to chat.

After the birthday party, a banquet is held to invite wine, which usually lasts for 3 days. Birthday dinner is the most abundant, called dinner. There must be a peach with a bud (commonly known as "Shoutaozui") in the hearts of several powder spots of the old custom banquet. When guests eat peaches, they shouldn't eat buds. They should break off the buds and put them on the table first, which means that future generations will live longer.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the custom of celebrating birthdays has been basically abolished.

Nowadays, people still have the custom of making and sending birthdays. When the elders celebrate their birthdays, the daughter-in-law cooks something that the elderly love to eat and invites them to dinner, commonly known as "making birthdays". Married daughters will get some birthday noodles, cakes, birthday cakes and so on, and some even make new clothes.

Birthday:

Traditionally, birthdays celebrated before the age of 50 are called "inner wishes", which means celebrating birthdays at home.

The 50th birthday can only be called "birthday". Relatives and friends should also give gifts to celebrate the birthday, and then do it every ten years, which is called a big birthday.

Birthdays are generally called by age, which are as follows:

Fifty years old: warm life, half a hundred years old;

Sixty years old; Call the little beast;

Seventy years old: named Zhongshou;

Eighty years old: named Shangshou, Dashou;

Ninety years old; Name is Lao Jiang Tianshou;

One hundred years old: call it a period.

General birthday activities are initiated by later generations. In addition to arranging the birthday hall, we should also prepare offerings to worship the gods and ancestors and prepare birthday banquets to entertain relatives and friends. In the dishes of birthday party, pig's trotters noodle line is essential. The pig's trotters are strong, and the upper thread is long. Birthday stars live long and healthy lives. When eating noodles, you should pull the noodles higher and longer, which means that the birthday girl will live longer. It is forbidden to bite them halfway. Relatives and friends who have been to their birthdays will celebrate their birthdays with gift boxes, wine or red envelopes, and the host will give back birthday peaches, red eggs, pork knuckle noodles and red turtle shells. The married daughter should send chickens, eggs, peaches, turtles, clothes, gold ornaments and red envelopes to celebrate her mother's birthday; Adding shoes, hats, clothes and red envelopes to father's birthday is commonly called "birthday celebration" or "birthday celebration".

Happy birthday girl

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