Should you celebrate your birthday or lunar calendar? Let’s ask ourselves first, are we all going through the lunar calendar?
When I was a child, according to the traditional culture left by my ancestors, was the lunar calendar, and was born on what month and day of the lunar calendar. I celebrated my birthday on that day. never knew what day it was on the galaxy on the day I was born.
It was not until I learned about the numbers on my ID card and had my own date of birth that I realized that the date of birth on my ID card was wrong. It was neither the lunar calendar nor the solar calendar. I guess I entered the wrong place when I was a child. I guess my parents didn’t think of the importance of the ID card, nor did they think about changing it.
The previous generations and peers around me basically celebrate the lunar birthday, so having a child is naturally also the lunar birthday for my children.
However, with the development of life and the advancement of technology, children will fill in the birth certificate when they are born, and they are all in the Gregorian calendar. There are also many children with ID card at a very young age, and the use of children's ID cards is becoming more and more, such as taking children to travel to buy bus tickets, scenic tickets, applying for insurance for children, bank cards, etc. Therefore, many young parents think it is good to celebrate their children's Gregorian birthdays.
And now people's financial conditions are better, and the children's birthday party is very grand. Relatives and friends had dinner together to celebrate their children's birthday, and grandparents and parents had differences over whether their children's birthday was celebrating the "Gregorian calendar" or "Lunar calendar".
For example, my colleague Xiao Liu said that celebrating the child’s birthday was the lunar calendar, and was later changed to celebrating the solar calendar. was not surprised when I heard it at that time, because I knew that some parents celebrated their children's Gregorian birthdays, but she said that their children's grandparents did not agree to celebrate their children's Gregorian birthdays. felt awkward.
Xiao Liu said that when the child was 3 years old, his family said he wanted to hold a birthday party for the child, but he quarreled with his mother-in-law about one day for the child's birthday.
Xiao Liu and his wife agreed to change the solar calendar from their birthday after the child was 3 years old, but their mother-in-law and the others disagreed and thought that they should celebrate the lunar calendar birthday for their children, because their ancestors have celebrated the lunar calendar birthday for generations.
Xiao Liu said, what era is it? My mother-in-law insisted on celebrating her child's lunar birthday. She celebrated her celestial birthday because her ID card is on the Gregorian calendar, which is convenient and easy to remember.
There are many children like my colleague Xiao Liu who celebrated their lunar birthday a few years before their birth, but later they changed to celebrate their lunar birthday for their children. Some parents naturally celebrate their children's Gregorian birthday because they celebrated their Gregorian birthday.
Passed the "Gregorian calendar" or the "Lunar calendar"? There are some things to note, parents should not care about
celebrating the "Gregorian calendar" or the "Lunar calendar" on their birthday? There are some considerations.
We need to know the rules and meanings of the solar calendar and the lunar calendar. For example, the twenty-four solar terms are the rules of the solar calendar running in one year, so they belong to the solar calendar. For thousands of years, it has been an important guiding timetable for our production work.
For example, after the Jingzhe, the countryside began to go to the ground, Beginning of Spring , Beginning of Summer, Beginning of Autumn, and Beginning of Winter clearly divides the four seasons.
The lunar calendar is the rule of the moon running in a year. It is mainly used to guide our daily rest schedule.
For example, August 15, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Eve, etc., it is not difficult to understand emotionally. Birthdays should be a warm holiday, So Chinese people have celebrated their lunar birthdays from ancient times to the present.
Elders in the family generally advocate following the tradition of celebrating the lunar birthdays for their children and respecting the wisdom left by the previous generation.
However, is now constantly integrating Chinese and Western cultures, and many people have no problem with changing their birthdays for the Gregorian calendar.
Is it better to have a "lunar calendar" or a "galaxy" child's birthday
There is no difference between good and bad, just follow your own habits.
For example, my colleague Xiao Liu finally held a birthday party for her child, which was her birthday. She said that many of her friends' children were celebrating their birthdays in the Gregorian calendar, and she felt that she was celebrating the Gregorian calendar birthday for her child.
For example, my parents and children all celebrated their lunar birthdays, and it felt very natural, and they had been like this for generations.
There are also zodiac problems, and some parents also count on the calendar. For example, I always thought that my neighbor's child was on the same zodiac sign as my daughter. Until one day when she was playing with my daughter, she said she was a monkey, and I knew that her mother was counted by the Gregorian calendar because she was born in January of the Gregorian calendar in December of the lunar calendar.
mentioned above that many people nowadays celebrate their children's Gregorian birthdays. Is it because their children's ID number or other information, which are all in the Gregorian calendar. Therefore, I think that celebrating their Gregorian birthdays for children is convenient for children to remember their birth dates.
and celebrating the lunar birthday of a child is following the traditional . Because Chinese customs are mainly based on the lunar calendar, birthdays, zodiac signs, birthdays, etc. are all based on the lunar calendar. For example, traditional Chinese festivals such as the Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Dragon Boat Festival are all based on the lunar calendar.
I think if parents pay more attention to the sense of ritual and want to follow tradition, they should celebrate the lunar birthday for their children. It can also cultivate children's sense of national pride and make children have a deeper understanding of Chinese traditional culture!
In short, no matter whether you pass the lunar calendar or the solar calendar, you will not waste it. You will establish a correct consumption concept for your children and correctly understand the meaning of your birthday. On that day, remember to be grateful to your mother because it was her mother's goodbye day.
Do you celebrate your child’s birthday? Are you having a solar calendar or a lunar calendar?