What are the customs for an old man's 66th birthday?

Customs vary from region to region.

In the northeast, the elderly sixty-six birthday, the traditional custom for the elderly package sixty-six dumplings to eat, eat longevity noodles (noodles), eat twist. Packing sixty-six dumplings, meaning congratulations on the sixty-sixth birthday, eating longevity noodles means wishing the elderly a long and healthy life, and eating twists means wishing the elderly more and more vigor.

Southwest Lu valued 66, 77, 88 years old birthday, as the saying goes, "sixty-six eat knife meat, seventy-seven eat a chicken, eighty-eight eat an old mother duck". Folk believe that 66 years old is a life journey on a difficult pass, only to eat 66 pieces of meat can be successfully passed this pass, so when the old man's 66th birthday, filial children or nieces and nephews generation will send 66 pieces of meat, if the longevity of the vegetarian, it is the same number of dried tofu instead.