What's the significance of celebrating the seventieth birthday? How do the elderly celebrate?

Birthday-Celebrating one's elders' birthdays is called birthdays, while celebrating one's seventieth birthday at the age of sixty-nine is commonly called birthday celebration. Birthday people are mainly close relatives of children, son-in-law and younger generations, and close neighbors and friends know more about congratulations. The whole birthday present includes shroud, shroud, Shouren (cakes) and Shoutao (steamed noodles). Generally, there are only birthday girls and peaches.

Generally speaking, people celebrate their birthdays at the age of 70, 80, 90 and 100. Relatives and friends give gifts and watch a play while drinking. The content of the play is mainly wealth and longevity. At the birthday party, there must be a plate of "pig's foot noodles". The birthday girl should dress up and sit in the main hall to receive birthday wishes from her children and grandchildren. However, some people are afraid to celebrate their birthdays, because they believe that fortune tellers are "outspoken" to avoid being taken away by black and white impermanence.

Birthday worship is also called "birthday celebration". Relatives and friends came to congratulate the old man on his birthday. Gifts are mostly peaches, noodles, cloth and cakes with longevity characters. Cloth, commonly known as "Shouzhang", is hung on the ceiling in the yard for guests to see. Write some auspicious words and the names of the sender and the sender in the birthday account. Men are usually endowed with words such as "The benevolent lives long" and "Your life is infinite", while women are endowed with words such as "Pengdao Ai Chun" and "Shouyu Kaixiang".

Middle-aged people pay attention to thirty-six and forty-nine, commonly known as "threshold." On this day, family members tie red trousers made of red cloth around their waists or put on underwear made of red cloth to eliminate disasters; Old people pay attention to celebrate their sixtieth and seventieth birthdays and congratulate them.

Others celebrated their 73rd and 84th birthdays. Mainly because Confucius lived to be 73 years old and Mencius lived to be 84 years old. They thought that these two ages were the threshold for the elderly, and they were congratulated on the anniversary for avoiding disaster and taking refuge. On birthdays, the poor don't pay much attention to them, while the rich hold large-scale activities and banquets. Those who go to congratulate them are called "eating birthdays".