Is there anything to be said about celebrating birthdays for the elderly?

There are also seventy-three and eighty-four birthdays. Mainly because Confucius lived seventy-three, Mencius lived eighty-four, that these two ages are the threshold of the elderly, a big celebration of congratulations, in order to avoid disaster refuge.

Over the birthday, the poor, not much to say, the rich, a big deal, set up a big feast, to go to congratulate the called "eat birthday", send gifts. To the baby "over the year", grandmother's family to send border rope, silver bracelets, silver locks, silver collars.

General folk life seventy years old for the "birthday" eighty for the "on the birthday" ninety years old for the "old life", a hundred years old for the "Yi Yi" are grand congratulations. Family and friends send congratulatory gifts, and play a side of drinking and watching the play, the content of the play to wealth and longevity of the main. In the birthday banquet, there must be a dish of "pig's feet and noodles".

The birthday celebrant also dresses up and sits in the main hall to receive birthday greetings from his children and grandchildren. However, some people do not dare to celebrate their birthday at certain ages because they believe that fortune tellers will take away their lives from them.