What does Shouxing Palace mean?

Shouxing Palace refers to people who celebrate their birthdays. Words of respect for the long-lived elderly; It can also represent the god of longevity in China mythology.

Shouxing Palace, originally a star name, is one of the three stars of Fu, Lu and Shou, also known as the old man in Antarctica.

Longevity has always been regarded as a symbol of good luck. The birthday girl is an old man with a white beard, with a stick in his hand and a protruding forehead. The ancients symbolized the longevity of the elderly. Long against the deer, cranes, peaches, etc. , symbolizing longevity.

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There is a folklore about the head of the birthday girl:

Legend has it that the mother of the birthday girl has been pregnant with the birthday girl for nine years, but she is still infertile. She was very anxious and asked the child in her belly, "Son, why don't you come out?" Unexpectedly, the birthday girl who is still in her mother's womb actually replied, "If the stone lion at home bleeds, I will be born."

When the butcher next door heard this, he quickly painted the lion's eyes with pig blood. Then, after seeing it, the mother of the birthday girl mistakenly thought that the stone lion's eyes were really bleeding, so she told her son in her belly, "The stone lion's eyes at the door are already bleeding. Come out quickly. " Hearing this, the birthday boy hurried out from his mother's armpit. However, because of the lack of years, the birthday girl became long and bulging after coming out.

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