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What are the rules of the old man's birthday

Over nine but ten in many places have to give the old man birthday over nine but ten preoccupations, meaning that every whole year, we must advance a year to celebrate life, such as seventy years old in sixty-nine years old to celebrate the birthday, which the feng shui preoccupation has two points, first of all, because of our traditional understanding of the inside of the "nine" the number and the Chinese "jiu" homophone. The first is because in our traditional understanding of the number of "nine" and the Chinese language "long" homophonic.

Men celebrate near, women celebrate full in feng shui to the elderly birthday some places also distinguish between the sexes, and men celebrate near. To celebrate the birthday of the elders called birthday, sixty-nine years old seventy birthday, commonly known as the whole life. Elderly people pay attention to sixty birthday, seventy birthday, to express congratulations. There are also those who celebrated their seventy-third and eighty-fourth birthdays. Mainly because Confucius lived seventy-three, Mencius lived eighty-four.

Birthday, as the name suggests, is the date of one's birth. In the future, every year on this day, the family or invite three or five friends to get together, a lively meal, whether it is to eat birthday noodles and eggs, or to eat cake and blow out the candles, are the theme of the meal. For the record, the answer is for reference only, please do not blindly superstitious.