Second, the birthday custom in Rudong, Jiangsu Province has a "making friends": that is, the woman's first birthday after marriage must make friends from her mother's family to her husband's family. A few days before her birthday, her mother informed her parents of her daughter's birthday so as to get ready and come to congratulate her. If the bride's family doesn't have sex, the husband's family won't care about the daughter's birthday in the future.
Third, Rudong people usually congratulate each birthday, which is called "birthday" in Rudong. Birthdays include full birthdays every ten days and casual birthdays that are not ten days. In the past, I usually lit an oil lamp in front of my idol to pray for my mother's bright eyes and not to forget that "my son's birthday is a difficult day for my mother." Minors should eat eggs, and those who give birthdays are called "long tails". Adults usually eat a bowl of noodles on their birthdays, which is also called "longevity noodles" because of its long noodles. According to folklore, it is called a birthday before the age of 50 and a birthday celebration before the age of 60. People can prepare longevity materials on their fiftieth birthday. There is an old saying: "How bold! Go out fifty miles without an umbrella; How bold! I don't have a board at the age of fifty! "
Birthday gift is a holiday gift. When a child turns one year old, it is called "Catch the Week", which is celebrated by relatives and friends and given as "Catch the Week Gift". Birthday gifts before 50 years old are generally called "birthday gifts", and the whole birthday after 60 years old is called "birthday gifts". The real birthday celebration refers to the tenth birthday celebration from the age of 60. As the saying goes, "When a person reaches 55, Yan counts", "Life is 70 and sparse" and "Seventy-three and eighty-four, Yan doesn't invite himself". The birthday celebration age is the nominal age of habit. Daughter He Jiu, son He Shi. People often celebrate 60 with 59, 70 with 69 and so on.
Congratulations have a certain form. The person who is congratulated is called the birthday boy. Those who give gifts one day in advance are called "pre-gifts", and those who celebrate their birthdays one day later are called "birthday-filling". Birthday gifts can generally be postponed, but not in advance. Therefore, before giving a birthday present, you must also find out the bottom to avoid embarrassment. It is called "double celebration" for couples to celebrate their birthdays at the same age. Two pairs of big red birthday candles were lit in front of the hall. Birthday for a widowed person is a single birthday. Light a pair of birthday candles.
There are some exceptions to birthday celebrations. In those days, some people were not called "stealing dates". Some places celebrate nine instead of ten. The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is commonly known as "Ghost Festival", and the sixth day of the sixth lunar month is said to be the birthday of cats and dogs. If someone's birthday happens to be such a day, they have to postpone the celebration.
Birthday is celebrated in Shoutang, where men hang "the birthday star" and women hang "the empress dowager", or in the main hall, such as "Samsung", "Ma Gu presents birthday", "Songhe prolongs life" and "Longevity". There are peaches, cakes and fruits on the table. On the birthday, the "birthday girl" sat in the center, and the younger generation bowed slightly. Sons and nephews presented birthday plates containing four boiled eggs or red jujube soup to the birthday girl and took their seats at the end of the ceremony. Eat big knife noodles at noon and give Catharanthus roseus candy noodles to the gods. Then everyone eats "longevity noodles", accompanied by four stir-fried dishes. The first bowl of noodles is for the birthday girl, and the youngest grandson or great-grandson sits on both sides of the birthday girl. In the evening, guests eat wine. The main course of the first course is fried noodles, commonly known as "noodles in wine". There are also people who warm their lives for a day before eating noodles, but there is no form.