Birthday Etiquette of Hakkas in Hong Kong

Like other customs, Hakkas have a small birthday every year and a big birthday every ten years, but big birthdays are more common. From the age of ten, it can be called a birthday, and it lasts until you are in your forties and fifties and sixties. Eating noodles and poached eggs on your birthday means that you will live to be 100 years old.

Congratulate (the old man) on his birthday.

On her birthday, the married daughter will give a rooster, as well as a shroud, hat, cake, shoes and socks, from head to toe. Father's birthday, will also send a whole set to mother, in addition to birthday axe, firecrackers, candles, roosters, peaches, noodles, cakes, wine and meat. Others come to celebrate their birthdays. Generally, relatives and friends send birthday wishes, birthday couplets, or gifts.

In many places, birthday ceremonies are held for elderly people over 70 years old, with many descendants and good family circumstances.

Hakkas' birthdays and birthdays are all gifts from insiders themselves, and congratulations from home are given first, then invited; Except in-laws and close friends, send invitations, not invitations.