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Why do you light candles for your birthday?
The custom of putting candles on birthday cakes can be traced back to ancient Greece and Rome.

In ancient Greece, people believed in themis, the goddess of the moon. At her annual birthday celebration, people always put honey cakes and many lighted candles on the altar to form a sacred atmosphere to show their special respect for the goddess of the moon.

Later, this custom gradually evolved into putting burning candles on children's birthday cakes and adding the content of blowing out candles. The ancient Greeks believed that burning candles had mysterious magic. If a child has a wish and blows out all the candles in one breath, he can realize it.

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Generally speaking, in China, people pay more attention to the birthdays of the elderly and children. Every birthday is a family gathering, but unlike now, everyone is basically out of town, and a few good friends are invited to help celebrate the birthday.

In ancient times, birthdays were also called birthdays, birthdays, birthday celebrations or birthday celebrations. Young people's birthdays can only be called "birthdays" or "birthdays", not "birthdays". Because "longevity" is the name of the elderly: only people over 60 can be called "birthdays" and "birthdays" if they celebrate their birthdays.

For a long time in ancient China, people didn't celebrate their birthdays. For a long time, people didn't celebrate their birthdays. It was not until the Yin and Shang Dynasties that people had the concept of birthday. But birthdays are just out of worship of the sun god. Parents named their children with branches on the day of their birth, and there was no birthday celebration.

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