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A birthday is the date in the year to which an event occurred, usually a Naissance.

It is frequent in many cultures to celebrate the birthday of the birth of its close relations (parents, friends) by organizing a Fête and by offering gifts to impétrant. It is also in general the occasion this day to cherish them more than of accustomed, like carrying out some of their Souhait S…

Western traditions for the birthdays of people

In the majority of the anglophone countries , but also in many other countries, it is of use to sing the traditional song Happy birthday to you with the person celebrating her birthday. This song is translated into many languages, such as for example Happy birthday in French. This moment of the festival usually coincides with the presentation of the birthday cake.

Alternatively, one can also sing in France the song Bon birthday, our most sincere wishes .

In Quebec, it is also current to sing a modified version of Gens of the country.

It happens that one sings a song with the Restaurant when somebody goes there for his birthday. The waiter or the waiters of the restaurant can entonner the song when the Dessert is brought to table (which dessert can be or not a piece of cake, decorated or not). The dessert can comprise a magic Cierge in the place of a candle. The other customers of the restaurant generally unite with the song of birthday. In certain restaurants the waiters interpret a song of special birthday or a dance.

the Birthday cake is traditionally a richly decorated cake, in particular of Bougie S of which the number, the provision or the form represent the age of the person (in particular when the number of candles necessary to appear this age is too important). To make the effect more spectacular, one often presents this cake, the candles lit, after having reduced the luminosity of the part. The person of which it is the birthday can spare a silence during which it can express a wish internally, then extinct candles in the blowing one. The tradition wants that if all the candles are extinct in once, the wish will be achieved. Another Superstition associated with the wishes of birthday is that if the person reveals her wish, this one will not be able to be achieved. It is very current that it is the person celebrated who cuts out the first share of the cake, except in the case of the young children.

One day of birthday is often regarded as one day particular for a person, who generally receives special attentions of her parents and friends. It is particularly true for the children, who await their own birthday impatiently. A contrario , much of adults hates to remember that they age continuously. In addition to the festivals, people often receive Cadeau X at the time of their birthday.

the festivals of birthdays of the children often comprise plays amusing, like Epingler the tail on the ass, the musical Chaises and other little games. For the adults, the festivals tend to be more formal, like a dinner at the restaurant. Since always, the purpose of the festivals are to give pleasure with the celebrated person. Actually, the day of birthday is sometimes called " better day of the année" , while the next day is named " worse day of the année" because it is necessary to wait a whole year to have another birthday!

There exists also the tradition of the Surprise parts. That leads sometimes certain people to feel been unaware of because it seems that their birthday was forgotten, whereas he does not have in fact not mentioned because a surprised festival was prepared. In addition, certain people do not raise the fact that nothing was prepared for their birthday, because they hope for a surprised festival.

But all the traditions is not also pleasant. In certain circles, the boy (or the girl) which celebrates its birthday is supposed to invite his/her comrades, often by offering one or more rounds which will not be always thanked by a gift.

It should be noted that there exists also a phobia of the birthdays.

Astrology

Many a astrological systems exists in the world, which determine the astrological Signe of a person according to her date of birthday and possibly the hour and the birthplace. They try to deduce its character, its affinities from it, to even predict its destiny.

Important birthdays

The occasions to celebrate an important birthday are varied:

When a key figure is reached, for example 1st, 10th, 20th, 50e or 100e birthday.
In much of Constitution S, one becomes a Adulte with the eyes of the law to a certain birthday, and one acquires at a certain age various rights and responsibilities: the Vote, the right to consume certain substances (for example the alcohol, the Tobacco), the call to the Military service, etc
Beaucoup of cultures attach importance to certain birthdays.

In the Jewish families, the boys celebrate Bar Mitzvah with their 13th birthday. The girls, as for them, celebrate Bat Mitzvah with their 12th or 13th birthday.
In Latin America, celebrates it Quinceañera traditionally celebrates the 15th birthday of an young girl.
Beaucoup of teenagers to the the United States organizes a " Sweet Sixteen Party" at the 16 years age.
In the countries where it is interdict to consume alcohol before a certain age, it is often of use of saouler with his/her friends as soon as the lawful age was reached; certain bars facilitate this practice while serving as the drinks " spéciales" strongly alcoholic. This phenomenon has less of width in the countries where there does not exist strict minimum age for the alcohol consumption.

The dates of birthday of historical characters like Jesus, Mahomet, or Martin Luther King, are often the occasion of holiday periods.

Official/alternative birthdays

Certain personalities, in particular the monarchs such as the Elizabeth II queen of England have " birthdays officiels" who do not correspond to their date of real birthday, but during which the celebrations take place. In the particular cases where the real date of birthday of a historical character is not known, for example that of Jesus, it is common that a particular date is allotted to him.

The children who were born on February 29th, which occurs only during the years Bissextiles, often celebrate their birthday once per annum, on February 28th or on March 1st.

In the catholic and orthodoxe Romance Eastern European countries like France or Greece, each day, it is the festival of a saint. It is more or less celebrated same manner that a birthday, but it is held on the official name of the saint after the person was baptized. In certain countries, the names of days are celebrated with more or less refined festivities that the birthdays.

History of the celebration of the birthdays in Occident

One thinks that the celebration on broad scale of the birthdays in Europe is due to the influence of the mithraïsme in the Roman Empire and that before that, it was not if current. The mithraïsme had a broad influence through the empire, since it was practiced per many Roman soldiers before being supplanted by the Christianisme. The celebration of the birthdays became rarer during the Moyen-âge, but knew a resurgence at the time of the Réforme because they were regarded as a good manners to transfer the attention towards another date that the feastday from the saint, in the line of the rejection of the Vénération of the saints.

Today still, the celebration of the birthdays is not universally widespread in Occident. Beside people who prefer to celebrate the day of the name, the Témoins of Jéhovah do not celebrate any of both because they regard them as pagan demonstrations , just as Christmas.

See too

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Astrology, birth Chart
Paradox of the birthdays

Simple: Birthday Zh-yue: 生日

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