This word must be written in traditional Chinese characters, and its shape changes greatly. It is said that some people have done statistics and there are more than 300 shapes for people to write. The long shape is called longevity, and the round shape is called Shou Yuan. Some big "longevity" characters on birthdays are all composed of small longevity characters, and hundreds of small longevity characters have different glyphs, which are called "longevity pictures", symbolizing longevity and longevity. In addition, it is necessary to hang pictures with symbolic meaning of longevity, such as the Antarctic Shou Xingtu with white eyebrows, long beard and crutches; A woman's birthday hangs a birthday picture of Yaochi or Empress Dowager Eight Immortals. There are lanterns and colorful decorations on the Shoutang. There are tables, incense tables, candles, peaches, cakes, noodles, fragrant flowers and fruits in the middle of Shoutang. The official house of gentry and wealthy businessmen will send people to invite their relatives and friends five or six days in advance. Invitations cannot be invited in the name of the birthday party itself. Generally, the younger generation raises funds to hold a banquet, and the eldest son or the person with higher reputation in the descendants will treat them by name. Invitations are divided into single Cambodia and United Cambodia, made of the best red paper or red silk. Single Cambodia is one person, one Cambodia, specially invited by special personnel, used to invite parents' guests or guests of the same trade; In Cambodia, many invited people are written in invitations, which are similar to notices. The invited people sign their names with the word "Jing". This form is suitable for inviting young relatives and friends. Invitations are generally written in simple classical Chinese, and the birthday girl is called by traditional honorifics. The general format is: ××× month × day is Jia Yan's birthday (if it is mother's birthday, it will be changed to "Jia Ci" )× ten days' birthday, and the peaches will be cleaned up and arranged for ×× morning. Please come at the end of the day. According to the convention, only the peers and younger generations of the close relatives of the birthday girl can be invited, and those who are far away can also be invited, but people who are older than the birthday girl can never be invited, because the elders will celebrate their birthdays for the younger generation, and the younger generation will lose their lives. Invited relatives and friends are also very particular about giving birthday gifts, such as birthday noodles, birthday wine, birthday candles, birthday screens and so on. , must be even and auspicious. Anyone who can decorate with red and green paper and paint the cover of the pattern will put it on the birthday box when celebrating his birthday, so as to wish the birthday girl a long life. Shoujiu is the top grade of local famous wine, so people in Shaanxi mostly use xi Anhuanggui thick wine, Xifeng Daqu, Yangxian black rice tonic wine and Feng Dan wine as Shoujiu. "Wine" and "long" are homophonic, and celebrating one's birthday with wine means wishing people a long life. The birthday candle is crimson, about 1 ft long and about 1 kg heavy. The surface of the candle is printed with the word "longevity" in gold, or there are auspicious words such as "happiness as the East China Sea and longevity as the South Mountain". When celebrating a birthday, it is inserted on the candlestick of the incense table, and the birthday gift is lit at the beginning, which increases the festive atmosphere of congratulations. Send calligraphy and painting banners to celebrate birthday, which is called "Shou Ping". There are 4 banners, 6 banners and 8 banners, which are arranged in groups and hung on the wall. Banners are all pictures symbolizing longevity and auspicious information, such as "Peach Birthday", "Magu Birthday", "Boy Holding Peach for a Thousand Years", "Eight Immortals Birthday", "Song He Birthday" and "Lu Mei Birthday". Others painted an ocean with rocks and flying bats. Rock represents "mountain", and "bat" sounds like "blessing", which means "happiness is like the East China Sea, and longevity is better than the South Mountain", so people call it "Shoushan Fuhai Map". Other birthday gifts are free for tourists who wish to celebrate their birthdays, but birthday peaches are essential, because in ancient myths and legends, the Queen Mother of the West held a birthday party in Yaochi on March 3 every year, and all the immortals invited to the party to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday ate flat peaches that bloomed for 3,000 years and bore fruit for 3,000 years. It is said that eating Xiantao can prolong life and live forever. Later generations of folk juniors will send peaches to celebrate their birthdays. Nine peaches are stacked on one plate and three plates are tied together. "Nine" and "long" are homophonic, indicating longevity. But fresh peaches are not available in all seasons, so the folk steamed peach noodles came into being. Peach mouth should be dyed red with food pigment, and some of them are wrapped with various fillings, especially in Guanzhong area. For example, a flat peach decorated with Ganoderma lucidum is called "Xianshou" and a flat peach decorated with bats is called "Fushou". As for painting peaches to offer longevity, it is an elegant gesture that ancient scholars like. In the Qing Dynasty, a painter painted flat peaches for friends' birthdays and wrote a poem: Flat peaches were planted in Yuen Long, and moved to Huatang to recommend a birthday banquet. There are leaves of Qian Qian on the branches, one of which represents a year's public life. Some poets and calligraphers also have the custom of sending birthday couplets to celebrate their birthdays. The most common birthday couplets are: Happiness is like flowing water in the East China Sea, and longevity is younger than Nanshan. Generally, due to the gender and age differences between men and women, there will be differences in words and allusions. For example, the birthday couplet of an 80-year-old man: Weishui tried fishing rods, and Wuling Qianshu laughed and set sail. Women's 70th Birthday Couplet: Jingui Sheng Hui is old and healthy, and Hemerocallis Changchun is old and rare. Men and women double birthday couplets: flowers with daffodils, husband and wife grow old together; The picture shows the Queen Mother Geng Wu Shuanghui. Some people write birthday couplets according to the occupation and identity of the birthday girl, but the theme is inseparable from longevity and auspicious and festive content. There are also gold-lettered birthday plaques, drums and percussion music to show excitement. The host family also beat gongs and drums at the gate to welcome them. On the inscription on the plaque, He Nanshou wrote "Deshou Gao Qi", "Invid Wohui" and "Yan Rui Hang Seng". Many people write "Jin Yue Zenghui", "Ci Zhu Longevity" and "Chi Yao Chun Yong" to celebrate women's birthdays. Celebrating men's and women's double birthdays is like "Hui Qi", "Spring Pavilion is booming", "Sun, Moon and Hui Qi" and "Double Stars are Brilliant". The plaque is decorated with red silk flower to show its grandeur. Guests should set off firecrackers when they enter the door, set off firecrackers on their birthdays, and blow suona. At the beginning of the ceremony, the deceased first offered incense to their deceased parents and ancestors and bowed to show that they did not forget their roots. Those who live longer than husband and wife, whether it is their husband's birthday or their wife's birthday, should sit in the middle of the hall of eternal life and bow down to their children and younger generations. The person who died on this day and his spouse are called "Shouweng" for men and "Shoupo" for women. When children and grandchildren worship, they are young and orderly, and only when children worship can they worship. Married children and grandchildren and married daughters must be paired on their birthdays for good luck. The peers among relatives and friends only bow to each other and extend auspicious greetings; The younger generation among relatives and friends should kowtow. If they are male, the son of the deceased should accompany them in front of the hall. If it is a female worship, accompanied by the daughter or daughter-in-law of the deceased, it is called "accompanying the funeral". Some birthday girls can't be tired because they are old and weak, and they don't have to go out to be worshipped. The guests only returned the gift to Shoutang last week, and the children and grandchildren gathered in front of the hall. This is not a snub to the guests. People who pay attention to birthdays should also ask the doorman to sing, and relatives, friends and children should present congratulatory messages, which will be read out by the doorman to commend the virtue and achievements of those who have celebrated their birthdays. At the birthday party, Shouweng and Shoupo should be arranged at the top of the dining table, and the guests should be seated according to their seniority and age. There are also exquisite banquets, usually eight dishes to drink and eight dishes to eat, which means "Eight Immortals' Birthday". When serving four courses, children should hold pots for guests to pour wine and enjoy each other clockwise. Greetings are mostly auspicious words such as "blessing" and "longevity". Guests call the birthday of the longevity person "birthday", "good day" or "good weather", while the longevity person is humbly called "humble drop" or "mother's distress". In Xixiang County, if the host can't drink any more at the birthday party, he can only say "no more" or "the amount of alcohol is exhausted" and should avoid saying "no more" Because the local language "drinking" is homophonic with "living", they are taboo at birthday parties. No matter how rich the birthday party is, it is inevitable to eat "longevity noodles" in the end to show longevity. There is an interesting rumor about the origin of eating longevity noodles. According to legend, in the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wudi talked with ministers about longevity in Weiyang Palace in Chang 'an. Emperor Wu said: According to the book, people (acupoints between nose and upper lip) are long and have a long life. If they are one inch long, they can live to be 100 years old. The ministers all agreed, except Dong Fangshuo, who smiled and said, "So, Peng Zu lived 800 years, and his people were not eight inches long? In this way, Peng Zu must have a long face. " Ministers thought the face of an eight-inch man must be funny, so everyone laughed at the same time. Later, people combined longevity with people and long faces. Because "long noodles" and "long noodles" are homophonic, people regard long noodles as auspicious food to celebrate their birthdays. In the past, when rich people celebrated their birthdays, they also invited troupes to entertain them. Generally, they sing a lot of dramas, such as Eight Immortals Toast, Yaochi Club and so on. The actor plays the Eight Immortals Taoist and sings birthday songs in turn. Lyrics are inseparable from auspicious words such as "Happiness is like the East China Sea" and "Longevity is like the South Mountain". If parents are the same age and have birthdays at the same time, it is called "Double Celebration", which is more grand in scale and more complicated in etiquette. Nowadays, saving birthdays is advocated, and most of them don't hold ceremonies. Naturally, there will be no birthday hall and no birthday celebration. Children and grandchildren only pay tribute to Shou Weng and Shou Po, and relatives and friends usually send birthday cakes, health products or other meaningful souvenirs and say a few words of blessing. Birthday parties are also much simpler than in the past. Some people just fry a few dishes, while others just "warm up", that is, make pasta. After dinner, the birthday cake will be cut by the birthday party to serve the guests. In the 1990s, a new form of birthday celebration appeared, that is, publishing birthday advertisements in newspapers and ordering birthday songs on TV. Children from other places can also remit money through the post office in advance and go to the TV station to order songs. When they turn on the TV, they can see and hear the blessing songs sung by the singers, so that the whole family can be immersed in a happy and warm atmosphere. There are also photos or videos of birthday celebrations as a souvenir. These changes in birthday wishes reflect the improvement of people's consumption level and the progress of spiritual civilization. In the old society, although poor families had no money or happiness, they lived a long life. When the old people reach the age when their children and grandchildren are full, they will celebrate their birthdays as usual, but the ceremony is very simple, just a few glasses of water and wine and a few dishes. Although there is no sumptuous banquet, children and grandchildren will inevitably kowtow to Shouweng and Shoupo. Some families are too poor to afford meat. They waited for relatives and friends celebrating their birthdays to send wine, meat and cooking to entertain guests. As the saying goes, "Birthdays don't come loose, and the pot is burned." In order to celebrate the birthdays of famous artists, most of them rent auditoriums in public places, which are generally initiated by students of famous artists or mass academic organizations. Birthday notices, notices and invitations can be published in newspapers and periodicals, and the format is generally: ×××××××× (week ×××××). The birthday girl who is Mr. ××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××× You can also print birthday albums and hold exhibitions of his works and scientific research achievements.
The format of your grandmother's birthday invitation is: 1. Please tell the other party's name. 2. Please invite 1 person to be Mr. xxx or Miss xxx low! Invite people to entertain Mr. and Mrs. xxx with their in-laws. 4. Invite people to treat the whole family with xxx. Please treat them with a low profile. The next paragraph is your grandmother's own post. Please drink ga. Please use your grandmother's name xxx to make an appointment. 6. If it's your grandmother's D offspring posting, you should call xxx to make an appointment. Are you clear? I don't know. Go to D's old restaurant and ask D's old minister/manager. He must know this place. I hope I can help you. 2007-05-28 16:40:49 Supplement: Restaurant D invites you what you want, so don't be silly. Don't use restaurant d to invite, go outside and print it yourself. The printing company has more sample content than you.
Reference: My own experience