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Birthday several ways to call

1. "Birthday" is a grand term for the birthday of the honored one, mostly applied to the middle-aged and the elderly.

2. "Birthday" is a beautiful name for a birthday.

3. "Fangchen" is the elegant name for a lady's birthday.

4, "long tail" birthday proverb.

5. "Mother's Day" is the day of one's birth, in order to repay the mother, there is this mother's day.

6. "Niu Yi" is the Cantonese name for birthdays.

7, "birth" is the day of birth, is the respectful name of the birthday. Mostly used in honor of the late great man, celebrity birthdays.

The earliest proposed birthday celebration, is about celebrating the Buddha's birthday in the secular temple fair records. early 3rd century, "every bath Buddha, more wine and rice, cloth mat on the road, through dozens of miles, people come to see and eat and ten thousand people, the cost of a huge billions of dollars" ("Three Kingdoms Zhi Wu Shu," Volume 4, "Liu Jiao biography"). Under the influence of Buddhism, after the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were birthday sayings one after another. For thousands of years, the Chinese have kept track of birthdays much differently than the West. A new Chinese year begins on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means that after New Year's Eve, everyone grows a year older. Therefore, the New Year's meaning of "letting go of the old and welcoming the new" also has a certain meaning of the number of years. In general, it is still customary to use the lunar calendar for birthdays. So since the Republic of China, everyone can have two birthdays, one on the lunar calendar and one on the Gregorian calendar.

The first birthday is called the "birthday of the week" and is almost the most important. In the old days, birthdays were more carefully divided among the elderly. In the old days, the birthdays of older people were more carefully divided, and the birthdays of respected parents in the extended family were celebrated accordingly, called birthday celebrations. Traditional birthdays are usually counted by the number of years of age.

Birthdays: These are birthdays where the first digit is 9 or 0, such as 59, 60, 49, 50, etc. Each birthday has a different designation: the first birthday, the second birthday, the third birthday, and the third birthday. Each birthday has a different name: Daqing: every birthday digit 9 birthdays, such as 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, etc.; Zhengqing: every birthday digit 0 birthdays, such as 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, etc.; scattered birthdays: birthdays digit 1-8 birthdays, such as 51-58 years old.