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Birthday History |
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We all are aware that birthdays are the most wonderful celebration of our life. But what is more interesting is its history. Birthday history can be traced back to the ancient past much before the rise of Christianity, where celebration started in order to ward off evil spirits. Isn’t this fact interesting? So, if you are willing to know more then just check out the facts of birthday history given below.
Facts about History of Birthday :
The origin of birthday celebrations is dated back to the early Christianity period. It was believed that in the pagan culture, on birthday the evil spirits visited the people. So, just to protect the birthday person from the bad evil spirit, people used to surround him and used to make merry.Parties were organized and lots of noise was created and it was meant to scare off the bad spirits.
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| At that time there was no such tradition of bringing gifts and the guests who attended the birthday parties used to give their good wishes and blessings to the birthday boy/girl. Interestingly, if any of the guests did bring any gift, it would mean a good sign for the birthday person. With the passage of time, flowers became one of the most popular gifts for birthdays. |
Development of Birthday Celebrations:
As per the historians, celebrations of birthdays are being held for quite some time now but records for the same are very few. Whatever documented record is available for birthday celebrations, they have the descriptions for the kings, queens or some other high ranking nobility, which means all those people who held high social positions. History suggests that in the beginning, common man or their kids were unable to organize birthday celebrations. And the common reason for this difference was the matter of wealth. It requires a big amount of money for throwing birthday parties and thus the common people were unable to celebrate their birthdays.Another most important fact is that the early man was unable to pay attention to his birth anniversaries as he didn’t know how to count dates. Slowly and gradually, human beings started to understand the entire circle of lunar cycle that helped them in creating calendars accordingly. |
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The development of calendars helped the human beings in calculating the birth dates and celebrating this special day.
Birthday Traditions and Symbols History:
You will be amazed to know that some of the very popular birthday symbols and traditions originated almost hundred of years back. The tradition of birthday cake developed from the ancient Greek culture where people used to prepare cakes for honoring the goddess of moon, Artemis. But according to some other notions, the tradition of birthday cakes originated in Germany, where the people used to prepare breads in Jesus’ swaddling cloth shape.
The tradition of lighting candles on birthday cakes have originated from the Greek culture as people used to light candles on the cake that was meant for Artemis, in order to make it glow just like the moon. People believed that the light and glow of the candles would help in sending their prayers to the god, who lived in the sky. Germans also lighted candles on the birthday cakes as it symbolized the ‘light of life’. And this popular custom of lighting the candles on birthday cakes continues till today as it is believed that blowing out all the birthday candles brings good luck for the birthday boy/girl.
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