Generally after the age of fifty, known as the big birthday, family and friends come to send gifts, longevity noodles, longevity peaches, steamed buns, cakes, birthday candles, food gifts.

Men do not do thirty, women do not do forty? The customary rules, visible to do birthday wishes, the morning of the first sacrifice Nanji old birthday, the desk more longevity noodles, longevity peaches, steamed buns, cakes and food gifts, point on the gold characters? Shoubi Nanshan, blessed as the East China Sea? Characters of longevity candles, sacrifices after the release of cannonballs or hundred son of gun, after sacrificing ancestors, and then invited out of longevity grandpa and grandma in the birthday hall, to accept the children and grandchildren, friends and relatives and guests of congratulations and worship. The longevity star has to distribute a red envelope to each of the worshippers. The host family hosts a banquet for the guests, drinking birthday wine and eating longevity noodles.　　Yuyao proverb says:? Ten-year-old grandmother's house, twenty-year-old mother-in-law's house? The meaning of this saying is that both the grandmother's family and the father-in-law's family will send gifts such as robes and coats, stationery, steamed buns, etc., and will honor the gods to give their nephews or son-in-laws blessings and celebrations. Although ten and twenty years old do not qualify as birthday celebrations, they are also in line with the Chinese people who meet ? Ten? The traditional custom of holding commemorative and celebratory activities, folk called? Do birthday?

In Yuyao city and countryside, meet ten years of age generally to do birthday celebration, but not all meet ten years of age can wish life. The old custom of celebrating longevity has a unique preoccupation, especially in the age of a relatively clear provisions, there are also many taboos. There? Short eighteen, death nineteen, twenty do yin life? The proverb, which indicates that the youth can not be twenty years old before the birthday; there is a proverb called? Do three not do four? This saying is that, when you reach the age of thirty, it's not bad to celebrate, but it's not good to celebrate. Four? is not the same as "four". Death? for the harmonic, inauspicious, so forty years old is not to engage in birthday celebrations.

Hanging up birthday pictures and banners. On the day of the birthday, the birthday person is wearing an auspicious dress, kneeling by the younger generation or congratulations from friends and relatives. Daughters and sons-in-law in addition to the general birthday gift, but also need to send clothes, shoes and socks and other birthday gifts. In the old days, the more affluent families, but also to hire on the beach decorative theater troupe to perform the birthday play. The birthday play is mostly performed Yuyao beach decorative, Yueju opera, Shaoju opera, the content is mostly celebratory, for good luck.

With the development of society and the progress of the times, the evolution of the world, the birthday celebration of this ancient custom exists, but in the form and content has changed a lot. People generally no longer sacrifice to the gods and ancestors, more simple life celebration of the door of the cumbersome rituals. Generally in the birthday day wine toast, send birthday noodles, birthday buns, birthday cake and so on. Feed people with noodles, said? Longevity noodles? , taking its meaning of prolonging life. According to the different hobbies of the longevity, the younger generations were sent gifts that are good for physical and mental health, the celebration of longevity is given a newer content.　　Sixty years old, sixty-six pieces of meat? If you are sixty-six years old, you should eat sixty-six pieces of meat. This is a saying that has been passed down in the countryside. It means that when parents reach the age of sixty-six, their married daughters will give them sixty-six pieces of meat to eat. It is said that not so, parents in the future years will be difficult to ensure the well-being of the proverbial cloud:? Sixty-six, Yama King to eat meat. Meaning that people to sixty-six years old that year is? Off, Yan Lo want to eat your meat. This custom in the end began when it is not available. But from sixty-six years old and sixty-six pieces of meat these two? Sixty-six? It seems that it is not difficult to find? Sixty-six years old and sixty-six pieces of meat. and Sixty-six years old and sixty-six pieces of meat. and "six-six". Six-six? is an auspicious number, and it is not easy for people to live to this auspicious age.

Particularly in the past, if you lived past the age of thirty-six, you were already considered to have lived past the age of thirty-six.

Life to the age of sixty-six, son, daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, grandchildren, grandchildren, grandchildren, and so on, several generations of meeting, several rooms **** place, the complexity of human relations increased, the custom of sending meat, it seems that in addition to praying for the parents of health and longevity, and wishing the parents and brothers love and filial piety, and family harmony, the family business Shunda meaning.　　The day of sending meat,? Generally, it is chosen on the day of the parents' birthday. Sixty-six? birthday. In the poor economy, material scarcity years, the old people often jokingly called the daughters send filial piety meat for? The meat to relieve the gluttony meat. Therefore, the sixty-six pieces of meat can often show the daughter's family's economic strength or generous or not. Generally natural piece of fat and thick and be praised. To small pieces for stingy stingy. Therefore, there is a bowl of meat or simply send a large pig's trotters or thighs on behalf of the sixty-six pieces of meat. With the improvement of living standards,? Relieve gluttony? The function has nearly disappeared, so the meat from the big block tends to be small, the quality is also from the fat and choose thin.