Is it good for the elderly to celebrate their 80th birthday? Why don’t the elderly celebrate their 80th birthday?
Celebrating a birthday is generally a happy event, especially if you can live your eightieth birthday, many people are more willing to do so, which means you will live longer. Therefore, there are many things to pay attention to. So is it good for the elderly to celebrate their 80th birthday? Why don’t the elderly celebrate their 80th birthday? Let this Feng Shui Knowledge Encyclopedia analyze it for you.
Is it good for the elderly to celebrate their 80th birthday? Why don’t the elderly celebrate their 80th birthday?
Generally, people celebrate their 80th birthday as a grand birthday, and they want to congratulate them grandly. Relatives and friends sent congratulatory gifts, and they drank and watched a play. The main content of the play was wealth and longevity. In the birthday banquet, the dish "Pork Knuckle Noodles" must be included. The birthday girl also has to dress up and sit in the main hall to receive birthday wishes from his descendants.
However, some people among the people do not dare to celebrate their birthdays at certain ages because they believe that fortune tellers are straight-forward to avoid being taken away by black and white. Therefore, they think that it is not good for the elderly to celebrate their 80th birthday and they dare not make arrangements for it. Or some people think that "nine" is the maximum number, so at the age of seventy-nine, they celebrate their eightieth birthday in advance.
Celebrations for the birthdays of people aged 50 and above are celebrated every tenth year, such as "fiftieth birthday", "sixtieth birthday", "seventieth birthday", etc. But this kind of birthday does not really fall on ten, but refers to the ages of 49, 59, 69, etc., which fall on nine. Because nine has the largest value among the ten numbers, people want to seek good luck, so they formed the custom of celebrating "nine instead of ten".
Other explanations
The reason why more than nine is not ten, on the one hand, is related to the homophony: nine is homophonic to Jiu, which has a long and auspicious meaning and is a symbol of longevity, while ten is associated with death. The homophony is taboo for people. On the other hand, eighty years old must be passed one year early. There is a saying that the homophony of "never leave the world" is said. On the other hand, ten is the largest number among single digits. Everyone knows that "things must be reversed when they reach their extremes" and "when the moon is full, it will lose money", so people prefer nine.
What to pay attention to when celebrating an 80th birthday
Birthday wishes
Celebrating the birthdays of elders is called birthday celebrations. Celebrating an 80th birthday at the age of seventy-nine is commonly known as longevity. Birthday congratulators are mainly children, sons-in-law and younger relatives, and many close friends and neighbors also come to congratulate you. The birthday gifts include longevity curtains, longevity cakes (cakes), longevity peaches (steamed noodles), etc.; in general, birthday celebrations only include birthday cakes and longevity peaches. Not as particular as on my 80th birthday.