What's so important about your 66th birthday?

According to the folk taboo of 66, 66 is a "hurdle" for the elderly. The folk proverb is: At the age of six to sixteen, King Yan will ate meat. At the age of sixty-six, even if he died, he would lose a piece of meat.

On the 66th birthday of the elderly in Northeast China or on the 6th, 16th and 26th day of the first lunar month, the younger generation (preferably daughters) should pack 66 jiaozi with 6 sides and 6 pieces of meat for them (generally try to make them smaller). If they can finish eating in one day, it indicates that this "hurdle" can be safely spent and the elderly can live a long and healthy life in the future.

Custom:

This is also a "pass". As the saying goes, "After sixty-six, Yan Xi will eat meat." On her sixty-sixth birthday, her daughter will buy pork to celebrate her birthday. As long as the birthday girl has eaten pork, it doesn't matter. "Six" is an auspicious word in China, and people hope it will succeed. The ancients took intimacy as the difference and called it five clothes. For example, within five clothes, one plus one became six relatives.

This practice of adding one before "five" is one tenth, which naturally means "half", so "six" also means "many", such as "six streets and three cities", "three heads and six arms" and "three inferences belong to six questions" and so on.