Why do people in the north do not have a birthday?

1, northern folklore in the "celebration of nine" "celebration of ten" points, that is, men do not celebrate nine, women do not celebrate ten. That is, "male celebration of real, female celebration of false". Celebrate life for men with "ten" integer, every ten years old for "a rank" is also called "a ten years". To celebrate the woman's life one year in advance, such as the sixtieth birthday celebrated at the age of nineteen, known as the "four rank Jinjiu".

2, Jiangnan folk popular life celebration "nine" not celebrate "ten" custom. The so-called "celebrate nine do not celebrate ten" is to say that life is not ten, to be done a year in advance of the nine, this custom is rumored to be "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" sixty-nine in the "Zhao Yan borrowed life" story.

Zhao Yan life should be nineteen years old, the divine chariot after divination, for its strategy to borrow life, in charge of the life of the Nandu Star in Zhao Yan's life and death on the book "nineteen" before the addition of the word nine, actually let him live to ninety-nine years old. There is also a saying that "do nine not do ten" because "nine" and "long" the same sound, there is the meaning of long, ten is "ten full for full, full is inviting losses The first is the "I'm not sure what I'm talking about".

For rural people, the completion of the new house, marriage, birthday and other things, are big events! There is a very traditional a preoccupation where! And "men don't celebrate nine, women don't celebrate ten" is a rule that rural people do birthday.

Rural customs:

In the countryside, often hear some people often say: so-and-so grandfather 70, 80, 90 birthday, or so-and-so grandmother 79 birthday, 89 birthday and so on. This is also the meaning of "men do not do nine, women do not do ten". It means that men usually celebrate their birthdays in whole numbers, while women celebrate their birthdays one year in advance, such as 69, 79, 89, etc. I can't tell you why, but the old people are very happy with their birthdays. Although it is not possible to say why, but the old people think that the ancients have always done so, so that it is auspicious.

As the saying goes: five miles of different winds, ten miles of different customs. There are differences in customs and habits across the country. In some places, it is advocated that "men should do nine". Because they believe that "ten full for full, full of loss".

In their view, full is the meaning of the end, which is unlucky for the birthday person. It's like, when some people are one hundred years old, they have to say they are ninety-nine. If you say it's a hundred years old, he'll still be upset. That's why all the men in these places are basically celebrating their big birthdays a year in advance.