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How do Chaoshan people usually celebrate their birthdays?

Birthday, commonly known as "making a birthday", is a commemoration of the date of birth, and it is also a folk custom that Chaoshan people pay more attention to. Commemoration began when I was one year old. However, it is relatively simple. Generally, only two eggs with shells (mostly eggs) are boiled and peeled to show that they will not forget. Modern westerly winds are gradually rising, and many people calculate their birthdays by the solar calendar, and the way of celebration is also changed to cakes and candles. After leaving the garden, when I was almost an adult, I cooked two sweet egg soups. After getting married and starting a business, every birthday, I will cook some good dishes and invite my parents to have dinner together to commemorate and thank my parents for their birth.

A real birthday is called "Dashou" once every ten years from the age of 50 (Hakka starts from 5 1 year, and it is also once every1year). Non-big birthdays are called "ordinary birthdays" or "birthday boys" The biggest birthday is from 70 to 80. Rich people celebrate their eightieth birthday, decorate the hall with lanterns and colorful decorations, put a red carpet in front of the door, hang a birthday account in the hall, put a tea bed as a top chair, put red birthday couplets on the door, fill the hall with antique calligraphy and painting, jewelry and jade (many of them are borrowed), and perform a Chaozhou opera in front of the hall. Post in advance to invite in-laws, family and friends, and relatives of "Wufu" (the first five generations) will come to participate. Not everyone can wish a big birthday, but it must be calculated by a fortune teller. If you can do it, you should choose an auspicious day, before your birthday, not after it. On the birthday celebration, all the guests were greeted. Gifts are generally birthday noodles (commonly known as "long noodles", homophonic "long life"), birthday peaches (made of glutinous rice flour), birthday wine, pork legs, eggs, good luck and so on. Some of them also added wonderful birthday couplets and birthday accounts. More ceremoniously, there were live chickens, ducks, geese, sheep and pigs. The gift is placed in Mumusheng. Wooden rope, wooden red paint, one and a half meters long and half meters wide, divided into three squares, two people carry it. There are gongs and drums on the door to welcome guests, and clan members wear robes and dresses to receive them. If an official or celebrity takes a sedan chair to congratulate him, he must ring three shots at the intersection to the gate to show his grand welcome (the same is true when seeing off guests).