What is the longevity of seventy-seven years old?

Seventy-seven years old is called happy birthday.

Among the traditional longevity names in my country, the common ones are "Huajia" (sixty years old), "Guxi" (seventy years old), "Old Age (pronounced "Maodi")" (eighty or ninety years old), "Qiyi" (seventy years old) One hundred years old), etc., while the longevity names of "Xi Shou", "Mi Shou", "White Shou" and "Tea Shou" are rarely known.

?Happiness: seventy-seven years old.

It is named because the cursive script of "xi" is similar to "seventy-seven" written vertically.

Mi Shou: Eighty-eight years old.

Because the word "rice" when taken apart happens to be the number "eighty-eight", it is so called.

The original meaning of "Shou" in culture is longevity. Precisely because "Shou" embodies people's common wish to live a long life, people endow the word "Shou" with rich auspicious connotations, and it has simply become a symbol of people's urgent desire for longevity. Traditional Chinese

There is a concept that there are "five blessings" in life, and the first among them is "longevity".

(See "Shang Shu·Hong Fan") The ancients believed that as long as you live long and live, everything can be done, which is what people often say: "People are there, everything is there."

Chinese people have such a view of reality. They place most of their ideals and happiness on human life.