1, cake. Birthday cake is a necessity, especially since children and young people are inevitable, if it is the old man, but also to buy, because this thing has long been widespread, how much they love to eat is one thing, go form or not is another thing.

2, eat longevity noodles. Shoumian is fresh noodles, there can be a variety of different, this is called, because the thin long fresh noodles can be a metaphor for long life.

3, eat more eggs. Some regions, we do birthday custom of eating more eggs, and the need to roll in the body of the two circles, multiplied by the "roller roller disaster". Why eat more eggs, there is also a historical allusion, it comes from the "Poetry Classic - Ode to Business - Xuan Bird" in the "heavenly orders Xuan Bird, descending for the business", recounting the ancient legend of a woman named Jane Dee went out and encountered a swallow eggs, eaten, grew up after the Yin ancestors "Chee! ", the people look forward to their own children like "Che" as talented, just started to give each other swallow eggs to the child born pregnant to show that wish, in the long run, to replace the raw eggs, the side to eat the end of the birth of a piece of food must be eaten.

4, eat peaches. Peach is a metaphor for long life, so the birth is generally eat, eat peaches custom from a story, the legend story Sun Bin went out to learn training with Ghost Valley Zi, a long time did not go home, one day remembered that is the mother's birthday, so with the teacher leave home for the mother's birthday, the Ghost Valley Zi said to Sun Bin: "You go out to learn the art of learning from a teacher, unable to repay the mother's kindness, I'm going to give you a I'll give you a peach to bring home for your mom's birthday." Sun Bin's mother, after eating the peach, became younger, and then spread the word, everyone just started to follow Sun Bin's example, sending peach on his birthday.