Children should be over the "birthday", feast friends and relatives. Le'an County boy 満15岁为满丁的年，也需宴请。 Young and strong people generally do not birthday celebration, there are "thirty no one knows, forty no one knows, fifty eat a chicken, sixty to congratulate" said. Sixty birthday, organized birthday banquets, friends and relatives to send more birthday noodles, birthday candles, clothing, red envelopes (cash) and other birthday gifts. Jinxi, Chongren and other counties birthday banquet for two meals, the first day for the "warm life wine", the day of the "birthday wine". Shou Hall, the younger generation for the birthday wishes. After sixty years old, every ten years a celebration of life, birthday celebration scale than a big one.
Strictly speaking, fifty years ago can not be called birthday, at best, can only be a birthday, fifty years later to be called "life". Ancient productivity is low, people live in hardship, hard labor but poor food and housing conditions, can be more than fifty years of age is not too many people, therefore, many places to the limit of fifty years old, can reach this age to be considered "longevity".
Second, different ages of people how to celebrate life
Children over the age of one year, the family should be set up wine, greet relatives and friends, to celebrate the child turned one year old. Relatives and friends also send blessings to wish the child a healthy and strong growth. On this day, the grandmother's family gives the gift of frontier rope, silver bracelets, silver locks, silver collars, as a sign of tethering the child, keeping him in the world, sheltering him to grow up in peace.
Young people are generally birthday day, greet good friends, classmates to the restaurant to eat a meal, send birthday gifts, and then to the KTV roar on a while, as happy as possible to leave.
Middle-aged people pay attention to thirty-six, forty-nine, commonly known as the "threshold son". To this day, the family made of red cloth red pants belt tied around the waist, or red cloth made of underwear to wear, intended to eliminate disasters and difficulties.
Elderly people pay attention to sixty birthday, seventy birthday, to express congratulations. There are also seventy-three, eighty-four birthday. Mainly because Confucius lived seventy-three, Mencius lived eighty-four, that these two ages are the threshold of the elderly, big celebration big congratulations, to avoid disaster refuge.
Three, over the life of the folk
General folk life seventy years old for the "birthday" eighty for the "on the birthday" ninety years old for the "old life", a hundred years old for the "period of Yi" are grand congratulations. Friends and relatives send congratulatory gifts, and play a side of drinking and watching the play, the content of the play to wealth and longevity of the main. The birthday banquet must include a dish called "Pig's Foot Noodle Thread". The birthday celebrant also dresses up and sits in the main hall to receive birthday greetings from his children and grandchildren. However, some people are afraid to celebrate their birthday at certain ages because they believe that fortune tellers will take their word for it, lest they be taken away by the White Goddess of Mercy.
The celebration of the birthday of an old man (over 50 years old) is called a birthday every ten years, such as the "50th birthday", "60th birthday", "70th birthday" and so on. But this big life is not really ten, but refers to 49, 59, 69, etc. nine years old. Because nine in the ten figures in the largest value, people for good luck, so the formation of this celebration "nine not celebrate ten" custom. Make a big birthday before to the closest friends and relatives to send invitations, the date of issuance is generally made three days before the birthday, otherwise it is rude. Folk Proverb: "Three days for the invitation, two days for the call, the day for mentioning to come." Friends and relatives received invitations, they will be prepared to go to the birthday gift, commonly known as "birthday". The master also want to feast, guests drink, some also invited to the church, to increase the festive atmosphere.
Life worship is also known as "birthday". When the old man for life, friends and relatives to come to congratulate. Gifts are mostly birthday cakes, birthday peaches, birthday noodles, cloth and pastries with the word birthday. Cloth is commonly known as "birthday tent", are hung in the courtyard around the canopy to show guests. On the birthday tent are written some auspicious words and the name of the person to be given and the name of the person giving the gift. Giving men commonly used "benevolent life", "your life without limit", to send women with "Pengdao Chun Ai", "Shouwu Kaixiang" and so on.
Shou Hall is generally located in the hall, hanging curtains on the front, both sides with couplets such as "blessed as the East China Sea", "Shoubi Nanshan" and other ancient languages. Baxian table with incense burner, wax thousand, life wax, "the life of the star of longevity Jun" God code child, as well as yellow money, paper treasure, thousands of sheets, so that it hangs down on both sides of the case. The table is decorated with longevity peaches, longevity noodles and other foods that symbolize longevity. Eight immortal table directly in front of the ground placed a red mat for the worship of life kneeling, above the peer arching, the following people kowtow.
Over the birthday and "Kanye year" said, that is, people to old age on the life of the pass, there is an old saying: "thirty-three big turn, sixty-six do not die off a piece of meat, seventy-three, eighty-four king of hell do not call themselves to go." And "people live fifty-five, the king of hell counts." 33, 55, 66, 73, 84 are all for the year of Kanye. It is believed that people can live a long life if they live to this age, otherwise, they can die young. People in order to live a long life, so in the Kanye year doubly careful, and think of ways to "crack" in order to try to live a long life. Commonly used method is to tie the red cloth belt, legend has it that the red color can avoid the evil and eliminate disasters.