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What are the aliases of birthday?

Birthday is the date of the day a person is born, under different customs, the birthday has a variety of aliases, such as birth, birthday, fangchen, cow, loose birthday, positive celebration and so on.

1. "Birthday" is a grand term for the birthday of an honored person, mostly applied to middle-aged and old people.

2, "birthday" birthday name.

3. "Fangchen" is the elegant name for a lady's birthday.

4, "long tail" birthday proverb.

5. "Mother's Day" is the day of one's birth, in order to repay the mother, there is this mother's day.

6. "Niu Yi" is the Cantonese name for birthdays.

7, "birth" is the day of birth, is the respectful name of the birthday. Mostly used in honor of the late great man, celebrity birthdays.

Birthday

Birthday, is the date of the day of birth, but also every year the day of the full year, China usually pay more attention to the birthday of the elderly.

The Chinese tradition is based on the lunar calendar, while the West refers to the AD year. In the case of the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, there may also be cases of birthdays occurring twice a year. However, many Chinese have westernized their views on birthdays due to cultural exchanges.

Currently, in most cases, birthdays are considered to be a more celebratory day, so there are celebrations, birthday cakes, and even birthday wishes.

But in some places, folklore sees it differently, as the mother's "Good Friday. The reason for this is that in ancient times, medicine was not as advanced as in modern times, and a woman giving birth to a child was thought to have "one foot in the coffin and one foot out of the coffin. Therefore, they felt that on that day, they should focus on honoring their mothers.