How do Japanese celebrate their birthdays?

In the past, Japanese people didn't have the habit of celebrating birthdays. Only 1' s birthday should be celebrated solemnly to celebrate the healthy growth of children in the past year and wish them safe and healthy growth in the future. 1 year-old children have birthdays, and rice cakes are essential. The rice cake used on this day is called "birthday cake", because it means that children have great strength to carry the rice cake, so it is also called "force cake"; If children can stand up and walk with rice cakes on their backs, it means that children are very strong, so they are called "Liち cake" and "Liった cake". However, people think that if children can walk well with rice cakes on their backs, they will leave their parents and stay away from their hometown when they grow up, so they make rice cakes very big and heavy, deliberately making their children fall down without moving their backs. At this time, they are also called "ぶつし cakes". Later, influenced by China or western culture, I began to celebrate my birthday once a year.

In addition, some places in Japan, like China, have the custom of grasping the week. In China, on 1 birthday, children first worship their ancestors, and then prepare a rice sieve in front of the sacred table, in which 12- 14 items are placed, such as books, seals, pens and ink, abacus, coins, chicken legs, pork, ruler, onions, celery, garlic, straw, swords and so on. For example, catching a book shows that children will learn in the future; Grasping onions means that children will be very smart; If you catch celery, the children will be hardworking and so on. Japan also has the habit of predicting the future career and destiny according to what children catch.