Birthday peaches are generally made from rice flour or wheat flour. If it is a birthday, fresh peaches are also used. Shouting peaches are purchased by family members or given as gifts by relatives and friends. When celebrating a birthday, on several tables in the longevity hall, nine peaches were stacked on top of each other to form a plate, and three plates were placed side by side. The theory of Shoudao originated very early. There is a record in the "Shen Yi Jing": "There is a tree in the east, fifty feet high, called Peach. Its tree is three feet and two inches in diameter, and the core is delicious. It can make people live longer." In the myth, the Queen Mother of the West held a peach banquet in Yaochi to entertain the immortals during her birthday celebrations. Therefore, later generations used peaches to celebrate their birthdays. When steaming peaches, the mouth of the peach must be dyed red.

Shou Noodles It is said that Shou Noodles originated from Peng Zu. According to Dongfang Shuo, a writer in the Han Dynasty, Pengzu lived to be 800 years old because of his "long face." Face is also "face", and long face is also "face length". Since "face" has the same pronunciation as "?I", later generations used the slender "face" to indicate longevity, and the noodles used to celebrate birthdays were called "longevity noodles". ". Eating noodles on your birthday means extending your life. In the old days, longevity noodles were required to be three feet long, and each bunch must have more than a hundred strands, coiled into a tower shape, and decorated with red and green engraved paper flowers. As a birthday gift to present the birthday star, double copies are required. Place it on the birthday table when celebrating a birthday. In the birthday banquet, longevity noodles must be the main food.

Shou cake is steamed with flour, sugar and food coloring. It is shaped like a longevity peach, or decorated with birthday symbols such as cloud rolls and auspicious words.

Shou couplets have different wording and usage due to their gender, age, etc. For example, a man's eighty-year-old couplet: "Try fishing on the Weishui River, and thousands of trees in Wuling laugh when sailing." A woman's seventy-year-old couplet: "Golden osmanthus brings brilliance to the old and healthy, and daylilies are everlasting to celebrate the rare age." Double longevity couplet: "Flowers bloom with narcissus" Husband and wife grow old together, the picture shows the double glory of the Queen Mother, Geng and Wu" and so on.

Birthday banners are made of whole or large pieces of silk with auspicious words and congratulatory messages to congratulate birthdays. It is generally as big as a nave, mostly golden or red. From the Ming Dynasty onwards, the word "廛四" became popular, and Shou "廛" was formed.

Shou screen is a kind of calligraphy and painting banner used for celebrating birthdays, with auspicious words of congratulations or paintings of birthday stars, birthday peaches, Eight Immortals and so on. Generally, four, six or eight banners are arranged in groups and hung on the wall. There are also engraved and inlaid screens for birthday celebrations, which are displayed on several tables.

Birthday pictures are pictures used to celebrate birthdays, including pictures of eight groups, generations of descendants, dragons and winds, hundreds of years of longevity, longevity and sea of ??blessings, wealth and honor for the elderly, happiness, wealth and longevity, etc.

The Eight Tuan Tu is an oil painting pattern of Shou ware, with four large circles drawn on each side. Flowers or a seal character "Shou" are drawn in the circle, and five phoenixes are drawn around the word "Shou", which symbolizes "the five blessings (Fu and Phoenix are homophones) to support longevity."

The dragon and phoenix picture is an oil painting pattern of longevity utensils. On the left side of the vessel is a dragon, dancing with its head held high; on the right side is a phoenix, with wings spread.

Picture of generations of descendants. A gift to congratulate an elderly woman on her birthday. The pictures are mostly round, with a large gourd on the top and small gourds on each side. The gourds have connected roots and vines, and there are several gourd leaves. The gourd vines are very long. Folk custom uses this to symbolize "lasting eternity"; the large gourd Planting seeds produces small gourds, which means "continuous descendants", and the entire picture is a "picture of descendants for generations."

Hundred Years of Life Picture: A hundred longevity pictures are copied from ancient and modern fonts to form a Hundred Years of Life Picture, which is used to celebrate birthdays. Some strokes of a big "Shou" character are covered with a hundred different characters for Shou, or a hundred characters for Shou are written in various fonts. This custom has been popular before the Ming Dynasty.

Shoushan Fuhai Picture shows a sea with rocks and flying bats in the sea. The rock represents the mountain, and the bat is homophonic to the word "blessing". It means "happiness is as good as the East China Sea, and life is as long as the Southern Mountains".

The Wealthy Old Man Picture is a birthday gift for seniors aged between seventy and ninety. In the lower part of the picture, there is a peony in full bloom, with flying butterflies lingering among the flowers. There are several cats, as if they are about to pounce on the butterflies. "脄", according to the note in "Book of Rites? 6.1 Qu Li": "On the eighty or ninetieth day, '脄'". "The Book of Songs? 6?1 Qin Feng? 6?1 Dong Neighbor": "The dead are old." "耋, old, eighty is called 耋." People with "耄" and "耋" both live a long life. The peony flower is commonly known as the flower of wealth, and the cat is a symbol of "耄" and the butterfly is a symbol of "耋". The three of them form a picture, which is the "Picture of the Rich and Honored Man".

The Picture of Fortune, Fortune and Longevity is a birthday celebration picture hung in the hall of the birthday star's home. In the picture, an old man is holding peaches accompanied by a deer, and there are flying bats on it. Deer means "Lu", which means promotion; bat means "Fu", which means good news; longevity star and old man means longevity to the person being congratulated. Usually there is a child behind the birthday boy looking up at the flying bat, which is called "looking forward to the gospel".