The world is full of assorted birthday traditions just like a candy cake. This is a special day when anyone wants to feel exceptional and prized. Many people who bash the birthday celebrations, they too get tickling somewhere inside for hearing the birthday wish from love ones. Adults can overlook their birthday festivity in a tired routine of their lives, but children can’t let their birthday pass without a party, gifts and fun, so the birthdays are or have to celebrate in their traditional styles throughout the world. On one side many neighboring countries share the same birthday traditions and on the flip side due to globalization, folks are picking and mingling their favorite tradition to add in their birthday parties. Let’s have a look at interesting birthday traditions from the world so that you might pick any interesting birthday traditions/idea to make your party more fun.
BRAZIL & HUNGARY, Birthday tradition, PULL THE EARLOBES
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| A birthday girl enjoying earlobe pulling |
In Brazil and Hungary, relatives pull the earlobes of a birthday child for the number of years, he/she celebrating a birthday. Annie enjoyed 8 earlobes twitching whereas her grandfather faced 69 pulls from his grandchildren. OMG! It would be tough fun for the grandparents. Family and friends pull the earlobes to make a wish for a long life; the life when your ears touch your knees. They pull earlobes and sing loud piercing your ears birthday wish:-
Boldog szuletes napot
We think you too are planning to pull your friend’s earlobes this year on his/her birthday but please inform him/her earlier to avoid any confusion.
MEXICO, Birthday tradition, Pinata
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| A blindfold birthday girl is ready to smash the pinata |
There is a cute tradition of celebrating a birthday in Mexico which has grasped its space in modern birthday parties around the world. In Mexico, a colorful and decorated Pinata (cloth or paper made container filled with candies and small toys) is hung high in the birthday room. Then a birthday child is slipped there blindfold and hit the piñata with a stick until it smashes and showers a rain of toys and candies amid birthday screams:-
Ifeliz cumpleanos! Ifelicidades en tu dia!
OK! We know you’re planning to have Pinata on your birthday but wait!...for a few more interesting birthday traditions.
JAMAICA, Birthday tradition, flour throwing
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| A birthday girl amid flour attack |
Jamaica people have made the birthday full of fun and joy with their flour throwing tradition. It’s a tradition that flour is thrown on birthday guy in the morning. To make it more party, water is added in flour, so it takes time to get rid of the birthday signal.
Don’t do think, birthday guy/child would appear to be an innocent ghost on the day!
CHINA, Birthday tradition, NOODLE PARTY
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| Yeah! this child picks a toy I wanna full of fun future |
In China, a child is set free to choose near a basket with variety of objects like money, pen, toys, gadgets etc. The first thing a child going to pick is considered as his/her future luck. Picking a pen means a future scholar, money means wealth, toys means pleasurable life etc.
This seem to be an interesting tradition to add in your kids first birthday party.
This seem to be an interesting tradition to add in your kids first birthday party.
As a tradition, a child is considered as 1 year old when he/she is born according to lunar calendars, so the child celebrates his/her first birthday in China when he/she is 2. You get it! Most of Chinese keep their birthdays calm of any celebrity and make it simple with a traditional family party with longevity noodles, wishing birthday guy a long life. As time has mold many things so as the traditions, nowadays noodle parties are thrown in homes of the birthday child and all friends take the challenge of eating a bowl of unbroken longevity noodles in minimum time. The birthday child is presented with gift money and gifts.
DENMARK, Birthday tradition, FLAG FLY
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| A Danish birthday cake |
In Denmark, to make it a special day, a Danish flag is set outside the house to announce the birthday. A party is set in the evening wrapped in balloons, gifts, a big cake, and fun. Cakes are also decorated with little Danish flags. Danish people seem to adore their country in their celebrations.
ENGLAND, Birthday tradition, BUMPS
In England, as a tradition, friends or family lift the birthday person/child in the air and tossed them ups and downs. These bumps are continued until one for each year and one for good luck is done. Most of the time, a surprise party is arranged by friends. As soon as the birthday person enters the darkroom, the lights turn on with paupers’ blasts and the party starts.
If you're planning to pick this tradition, then follow it very careful. We recently come across the gloomy incident from India, where a college student lost his life while his class fellows were tossing him for birthday bumps.
If you're planning to pick this tradition, then follow it very careful. We recently come across the gloomy incident from India, where a college student lost his life while his class fellows were tossing him for birthday bumps.
PAKISTAN & INDIA BIRTHDAY TRADITION, SWEET RICE (GUR WALEY chawal)
In urban areas birthday functions are decorated amid big parties, cake, food and wrapped gifts just like any part of Europe but traditionally, in most parts of Pakistan and India mothers cook “Gur Waley chawal” or sweet rice (rice which is cooked in brown sugar syrup) and whole family cherish and wish the birthday child while enjoying the dish. Grandparents and close uncle/aunt give gift money to the birthday child to make his/her day and sing it loud:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN URDU/HINDI: - SALGIRA MUBARAK HO….
VIETNAM, Birthday tradition, TEt
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| A family birthday treat on Tet day |
In Vietnam, as a tradition, no one celebrates the birthday on the exact day of his/her birth. Vietnamese celebrate birthdays on their New Year’s Day, TEt, so the whole country cherishes and enjoys each other’s birthday on the same day amid festivity of New Year. “Lucky money” or Li Xi is presented in red envelopes and given to children as a birthday present. Somewhere wrapped gifts are also part of the party and everyone sings a wish:-
Chuc Mung Sinh Nhat
AMERICA, Birthday tradition, CAKE with Candles
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| A cute birthday boy is ready to cut the cake. Can you count the candles and know his age like his younger brother? |
In America, it’s a tradition that a cake with the candles is set on the party table. The number of candles matches the number of years of birthday. The birthday guy blows the candles and makes a wish. The party starts with fun and amusement as parents bake some extra cakes to smash, destroy and toss on each other to make it more fun. Nowadays we observe most birthdays are set on American traditional birthday.
CANADA, Birthday tradition, nose greasing
Here comes another very adorable birthday tradition from Canada to pick on. As a tradition, the nose of birthday guy is greased with butter while wishing him/her for the day. It represents that you’ll become slippery for negativity or bad luck like this butter for an upcoming year. Sometimes the whole cake is smashed on the birthday guy’s face to make it more fun. A big party is thrown on birthday with school friends and family.
FRANCE & ARGENTINE, Birthday tradition, tear the gifts
In France & Argentine, birthday parties, surprise festivity is planned with friends and family. Guest approaches the party with wrapped gifts but wait…you can’t put the gift at sides. Yes, as a tradition, in France and Argentine, you’ve to tear up the packing in front of all to disclose the gift otherwise your guest will mind your unawareness.
GERMANY, Birthday tradition, sweeping
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| A German guy decorates for his wife's birthday yup! he's safe of sweeping the city hall on his upcoming 30th birthday now |
Aw…for Germans if you’re 30 and still single then you’ve to sweep the city hall stairs on your birthday. The friends of birthday guy mock their friend for not having a lady in his life by littering the place awful and to make the tradition more bizarre. For children, parties with delicious food are arranged with family and friends. Children receive gifts that they have to tear up in front of all like their neighbor countries.
RUSSIA, Birthday tradition, BRING CANDIES AND CAKE TO SCHOOL
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| kindergarten student is celebrating birthday in school |
This is a birthday tradition from Russia which has spread throughout the world so fast and has become most popular in school children. Birthday child brings a pack of candies, chocolates or cake to school where the teacher announces his/her birthday. The cake is cut in front of class fellows and candies/chocolates are also distributed with a piece of cake. Birthday child feels special for the whole day and some schools allow the students to come in color clothes on their birthday.
Birthday traditions are more associated with old-time beliefs, customs, and anecdotes in any area and all with long, happy and blessed life.