Why eat birthday cake on your birthday

Eating cake on your birthday was originally a custom that came from the West and was not popular in China, but with the continuous exchange and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures after the Xinhai Revolution, China gradually accepted the traditions of Western culture and began to eat cake on your birthday to celebrate the day.

Birthday cake

Birthday cake, initially, was something only a king was entitled to, but nowadays both adults and children can buy a beautiful cake on their birthday and enjoy the blessings given by the crowd.

Birthday cake expresses the meaning of blessings and signifies that no matter how busy and tired a person is he/she never forgets to bring blessings to his/her relatives and friends on his/her birthday.

Because of their love for children, the ancient Greeks celebrated their children's birthdays by placing lots of small, lighted candles on top of the birthday cake and adding a new activity - blowing out the lighted candles.