Birthday is estimated to be the world's only belong to their own "holiday" it, in honor of coming to this beautiful world, customs around the world are not the same, in addition to *** have a birthday cake, around the world over the birthday to eat what? Come and take a look.
China
In the past, we are not every birthday, and not called birthday, but called "birthday" or "birthday", 60 years old in the life of the most grand, called "do The 60th birthday is the most important in a lifetime, and it is called a "birthday".
Generally in the birthday this day to eat pasta, such as birthday noodles, birthday package, birthday cake, birthday cake, birthday buns, etc., and the birthday noodles is a bottom, implying longevity, in addition to the red eggs to eat, all implying auspicious longevity meaning, and cake this Western-style desserts only began to popularize in recent times.
Japan
Previously, the Japanese did not have the habit of birthdays, but the only 1-week-old birthday to be a grand celebration of the child's healthy growth for a year to celebrate, and bless the child will also be safe and healthy growth.
Generally, Japanese people eat rice cake on their birthday, also called "birth cake", and let the child carry the rice cake on his back, if the child can still walk on his back, it shows that the child is very strong, and adults think that the child can still walk well on his back, and when he grows up, he will be able to leave his parents and go far away from his hometown, so he makes the rice cake big and heavy, and intentionally makes the child unable to carry it. They made the rice cakes big and heavy so that the children would not be able to carry them on their backs, which is why the rice cakes are also called "buchu-boshi". In addition to mochi, red beans and rice are eaten as a sign of good luck.
Korea
Koreans celebrate their birthdays on the lunar calendar just like we do, but nowadays they also celebrate their birthdays on the solar calendar due to Western influences.
Anyone who has watched Korean dramas knows that Koreans drink seaweed soup on their birthdays, because seaweed soup is a postpartum tonic for pregnant Korean women, and it also represents the Korean people's respect for their mothers, in order to commemorate the pain of their mothers' childbirth.
Thailand
Thailanders don't have any special food to eat on their birthdays, but they do have special birthday ceremonies. Thailand is a very religious country, so their birthday ceremony is also with religious colors, generally there are three kinds of birthday rituals: give alms to the same age or older monks, worship ancestors, perform good deeds, chanting, fasting monks or ask monks to say the teachings, three kinds of choose one can be.
If there's anything to eat, it's international birthday food like cake, right?
America
The United States is a multicultural country, and there are diverse ways to celebrate birthdays, but of course, the most common is to have a party, and the must-have food is of course a birthday cake, birthday candles, and a birthday song. People attending the party are required to bring gifts, and invitations will be sent out half a month in advance.
This is how birthdays are celebrated in most Western countries, except the United States.
Brazil
Brazilians eat candy in the shape of fruits and vegetables on their birthdays, in addition to birthday cake, which is eaten by children.