Assignment 3-Part 1

Make a birthday card-based on culture

Description about how Chinese celebrate their birthday:

The Chinese traditional way to count the age is different from Western way. In China, people take the first day of the Chinese New Year in lunar calendar as the starting point of new age. No matter in which month a child is born, he is one year old, and one more year is added to his age as soon as he enters the New Year.
It is often the grownup sons and daughters who celebrate their elderly parents' birthdays to show their respect for them and express their thanks for what they have done for their children. According to the traditional customs, the parents are offered foods with happy symbolic implications. On the birthday morning the father or mother will eat a bowl of "long life noodles". In China long noodles symbolize a long life. Eggs are also among the best choices of food taken on the special occasion.
Regardless of the scale of the celebration, peaches and noodles, which are both signs of long life, are required. But interestingly the peaches are not real. They are actually steamed wheaten food with sweet stuff inside. They are called peaches just because they are made in the shape of peaches. When the noodles are cooked, they should not cut short, for the shorthened noodles can have bad implication. Everyone at the celebration eats the two foods to extend their best wishes to the long-life star.
The typical birthday presents are usually two or four of eggs, long noodles, artificial peaches, tonics, wine and money in red paper.

The above picture are some of the examples about how Chinese celebrate the birthday.
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