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I don't know if you have a birthday habit in front of the screen? Now the birthday of young people is not all by freedom, but the birthday of the old man is very important, in the past there was a folk saying, after fifty or sixty, you can not call the birthday, it should be called shou, then you know when the life expectancy generally began?
Now people's life expectancy has generally increased, so most of the life expectancy is generally starting from sixty, some families pay more attention to doing shou, so do it every year, but more families pay attention to a "every ten to do shou", specifically spend energy on sixty, seventy, eighty such a whole life, but this so-called whole life is not the real whole life, why? Because in the folk, the pronunciation of "ten" is close to "death", so the meaning is unknown, and then there are ten full, the ancients will be full of losses, nine represents infinity, in order to figure out a longevity of the idea, but also to avoid the taboo of death, generally will be a year in advance to do life, for example, next year is eighty years old, then at the age of seventy-nine the birthday will be big, and nominally still eighty birthday.
There is also a saying that when the old man has grandchildren, when will he start to do shou, this kind of life is much rarer than the one I just said, but generally catch up with sixty-six, eighty-eight, or related to the death of Confucius Mencius seventy-three and eighty-four, should be solemnly shou, which is a very serious folk tradition.
Of course, about doing shou, in fact, there are men over the false age, female over the age of the exquisite, this is derived from the "male full hairless, female into the no blessing" statement, which follows the ancients of the yin and yang balance, male yang female yin, we know that the virtual age is generally larger than the first year, into the yin for the virtual, full for the yang for the real, whether it is yang plus yang, or virtual plus false, are not good for people, so in order to adjust the balance of yin and yang, so there is a tradition of men doing into women to do full.
Now the tradition of making shou is still there, but many long-standing customs are gone, for example, a long time ago, when they caught up with their parents to do shou, those daughters who got married would carry braised meat home, which is called "sixty-six, the heavenly king Lao Tzu eats a piece of meat", praying for their parents to live a long life. For example, catching up with the seventy-third and eighty-four Yama kings do not call themselves to such a special age, in some places the children want to buy a live carp to make fish soup, let the old man drink the fish soup, and then throw the fish bones, which is called removing bad luck.
Thousands of different customs, how old did you start to do shou there, and what special customs are there?