Why is it important to eat cake and blow out candles to make a wish on your birthday? When did this tradition start?

Eating cake and blowing out candles on birthdays is already familiar to people, and this custom is based on Greek origins. In ancient Greece, people believed in the moon goddess Artemis. On her annual birthday celebration, people always put honey cakes and a lot of lighted candles on the altar to form a sacred atmosphere, to show their special reverence for the moon goddess. Later, with the passage of time, because of the love of children, the ancient Greeks in the celebration of their children's birthdays, but also always love to set the table with pastries and other things, and in the above, and put a lot of lighted small candles, and add a new activity - blowing out these lighted candles. They believe that the lighted candles have mysterious power, and if the birthday child makes a wish in his heart and then blows out all the candles in one breath, then the child's wish will surely come true. So blowing out the candles became a birthday party with a small program of auspicious significance, and then gradually developed to whether it is in the children or adults and even the elderly birthday parties or banquets are blowing out the candles of this interesting activities.