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. Shichi-Go-San. 20 year old celebration. Seijin-shiki
  2. 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'.
  3. Not sure (in relation to birthdays).
  4. 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.
  5. Polite language Bowing Maybe these are Japan's spirit inherited for a long time
  6. 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.
  7. yes
  8. i don't know any
  9. I don't think anything is unique in Lithuania's birthday celebrations. Mostly eberything is taken from other countries.
  10. I don't know. I'm sorry