Birthday celebration traditions in East Asian countries (China, South Korea and Japan) and Lithuania

Name a few traditions that you have in your country, that you think could not be found in other coutries? Does it have some special meaning?

  1. 無いです。知らないだけかもしれませんが‼
  2. I think Koreans do value age. When you meet a person for the first time, it isn't rude if you ask others age. I think that is influenced by conficianism in china.
  3. In the birthday? no. in the other, when the man marry, people hit his naked feet by dried pollack for increasing stamina before the first night.
  4. 中文的名字都不会在其他国家出现。
  5. Chinese birthday bun
  6. Red pocket money, the parents will put the money in a red pocket, it means lucky.
  7. In Korea, most people celebrate First Birthday for baby, which is called Doljanchi. With celebration, baby can choose one thing on the table: mic, money, pencil, ball... each means singer, rich, scholar, athlete.. People can guess baby's future
  8. We eat 떡 korean traditional cake Yes i think it could not be found in other countries.
  9. When we turn one year old. We have a special birthday.
  10. nothing
  11. Shichi-Go-San. 20 year old celebration. Seijin-shiki
  12. I told you it's not easy to explain in ENG. It's about 삼신할머니 in Korean. My mother always sets the table and says that 'thanks for giving this birth to our family'.
  13. Not sure (in relation to birthdays).
  14. The most traditional one is seaweed soup cooking and eating on your birthday. It says that you can't have a happy year if you didn't eat/received seaweed (miyeok) soup on your birthday. They say that pregrant moms used to eat seaweed soup and that is most suitable food for a baby even though you are all grown up now. And also party drinking games. We sing songs and play games that are harder to follow when you are more drunk. One more when you are a kid you get money from elder people (it can even be people you don't know) on your birthday.
  15. Polite language Bowing Maybe these are Japan's spirit inherited for a long time
  16. Ojigi（お辞儀）"a bow" To show your politeness to the other person. every time you see the person and also say bye to the person. Be considerate to the others We are trying to understand what the others feel of without asking. Which means we always consider about the others. Sometimes foreigner says Japanese are introvert or shy. We are, but we have those culture as well.
  17. yes
  18. i don't know any
  19. I don't think anything is unique in Lithuania's birthday celebrations. Mostly eberything is taken from other countries.
  20. I don't know. I'm sorry
  21. When it comes to birthday traditions, I am not sure if the tradition to lift the chair with the person who's birthday it is, exsist in other countries.
  22. I don't think we have something very special.
  23. Užgavėnės.
  24. umm, is that thing when you're lifting birthday person up on the chair is the national thing? we do that, that's fun
  25. I don't know any traditions in Lithuania to be honest...
  26. I don't really know? But maybe Christmas Eve? Like we do all these things, while other countries just meet up and eat.
  27. I dont know any specific traditions in Lithuania...
  28. It is hard to say,when I don;t know other countries traditions.
  29. Not sure.
  30. No
  31. Drinking. A lot of youth think that drinking is the main thing of birthday celebrating. I think it's very bad attitude.
  32. One of traditions is at 12 o'clock. The one who's birthday it is sits on the chair and others put chair in the air the number of what age is the person. People who does not put chair in the air give the champange shower to celebrating person. I don't know if it's in other countries.
  33. I don't think that Lithuania has special traditions.
  34. I think, we haven't any traditions which have meaning.
  35. It is same as other countries. We do not have something unique.
  36. -
  37. I don't know, Lithuania is as basic and boring as it gets. At least when we're talking about birthdays. Nothing unique or new that other countries don't do.
  38. I don't know that.
  39. For real i dont know :D
  40. I believe there are none?
  41. -
  42. We have Joninės in Lithuania. It happens on a day when the night is the shortest and the day is the longest. On that night you have to find the blossom of a fern. To our family it doesn't really have a special meaning.
  43. I don't think we have something that different.
  44. I have no idea :D
  45. I don't really know any specific birthday celebrating traditions that cannot be found elsewhere, because the traditions of celebrating birthdays in Lithuania have been heavily influenced by the Western world.
  46. No idea.
  47. I don't know
  48. -
  49. I dont know
  50. Deja, nežinau unikalių lietuviškų tradicijų
  51. I can't think of any at this moment.
  52. Regarding to celebrate birthday, I have no idea.
  53. Spėju kad negeria šampano. Tiksliai nežinau. Bet manau visur švenčiama panašiai.
  54. for the elderly we have birthday noodles, baozi ~shape like a peach call shou bao. Before when i was young, people would bring mirror with good words on it, blanket to the elderly who has the birthday party
  55. Knock three times for good luck. Other countries tend to not count the times.
  56. Nė vienos nesugalvoju. Švenčiam panašiai kaip ir kitos šalys.
  57. To lift the birthday guy up the exact amount of time as he are years old. The dont do this in britain.
  58. I know none