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The border guards cooked instant noodles for their comrades' birthdays. Why do they have to eat noodles for their birthdays?

Border guards usually guard our country at the border and protect us with their lives. It is because of their existence that we can live a happy life. But what we can't imagine is how difficult the living conditions of border guards are in the frontier. This is a simple thing for us, but it is an extravagant hope for them. Just like a frontier soldier cooking instant noodles for him on his twentieth birthday, this feeling is really touching. But the custom of eating noodles on birthdays is well known.

One: I hope to live long. Everyone knows longevity noodles. On every birthday, maybe my mother will cook a bowl of noodles for us, hoping that we can live a long and healthy life. This is a beautiful yearning. Our birthday only happens once a year. Every time we celebrate our birthday, it means that we are one step closer to the end of life, so eating a bowl of longevity noodles is to hope that we can live longer.

Two: It's a custom. Maybe in our opinion, we don't know why we want to eat noodles on our birthday, but we just think it's printed in our minds. It is right to eat noodles on your birthday, and everyone didn't want to ask why. In fact, eating longevity noodles on birthdays appeared in the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Since then, it has gradually become a custom to eat longevity noodles on birthdays.

Three: longevity is long. In fact, the longevity noodles we eat can only be said to be noodles. The real longevity noodle is a complete noodle with no break in the middle. Put a whole noodle in a bowl, I hope your life will be as long as this noodle. In the frontier, because conditions do not allow, it is good to eat 10 thousand hot noodles, so there is not so much pressure.

In fact, eating longevity noodles on birthdays is everyone's good wish. We all make wishes on our birthdays, hoping that next year will be better. Although everyone knows that eating longevity noodles can't live to 100 years old, it is a good expectation.