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

Is any of your birthdays more important than others? For example your first birthday and the others that you had?

  1. 20歳。22歳。
  2. I think some people do value their birthday a lot. But for me, when my birthday i try to give thanks to my parents. Cuz they raised me with a lot of efforts.
  3. traditionally 3rd, 5th, 7th, 20th, 60this important but I think all is important for me.
  4. as i mentioned in first question, 2 or 3rd years of elemental school.
  5. 没有觉得谁的生日更重要，都是一样的。
  6. Every birthday for me is different meaning. Depends on celebrate with who
  7. When i grow up, normally i will go to other countries to travel
  8. i do not have party
  9. No
  10. nope
  11. 20th. You can legally drink and smoke, and will be treated as adult.
  12. Not really.
  13. Nope.
  14. Your 100 days birthday is very very important in Korean culture.
  15. I took a trip with my friend, it was a great and memorable birthday.
  16. The one I had in London was so special. My girlfriend made birthday gifts for me and she didn't "bought", she "made". It was so precious.
  17. 20 year old birthday? In Japan, turning 20 has a special meaning. They start being regarded as adults.
  18. yes
  19. no
  20. Our 18th birthday is the most imfortant I think. Because it is the margin from child to adult. When you are 18 years old in Lithuania you can buy alcoholic drinks, you can get driver's licence, you are legally not depending on you familly by law, you are responsible of yourself. Also every 10ths and 5ths are celebrated a little bigger that usual birthdays. These anniversary birtdays, like 45 or 60 is often celebrated in restaurants or in some booked place because it is more easy to celebrate with a lot of people.
  21. In Japan, there are ages which have special meaning ; these are 20,60,70,77,80,81,88,90,99 and 100 years old. In this case, my birthday may be more important than others.
  22. I think my 18th and 21st birthdays have been more important than others so far, because at 18 you become a legal adult and can vote, buy alcohol and cigarettes, and at 21 you can legally drink hard liquor, so I suppose these two birthdays signify your turning into a legally adult person, which changes your status in your actual life as well.
  23. In my country there are two most important birthdays : 18 and 50 years. 18 because your adulthood starts, 50 because you have lived half of century.
  24. My 18th birthday, because I celebrated it with my best friends
  25. No, others birthdays are more important.
  26. Yes, my 18th birthday, because then I got my driving licence.
  27. nah
  28. I don't think so.. Maybe 18th birthday because of legal age and upcoming responsibilities. Legal age line is when you start to think about things such as paying university tuition (since I am a student of ISM government cannot support full tuition price) and finding a job maybe to support yourself instead of living of my parents. But every other birthday for me seems equal.
  29. I feel like first, tenth and 20th is the hardest for parents. So it good bigger meanings to us too.
  30. I think they all are equally important
  31. I guess most important was my 18 birthday because firs time I celebratet with mytrue best friends and family.
  32. There isn't
  33. I don't think so. To me all birthdays are the same, meaning that another year has passed.
  34. I think 5 birthday. Because it is the first one I remember
  35. I think my 18nt birthday was more special because more possibilities opens. Also every tenth birthday is marked as jubilee, so many people celebrate it. Maybe 100ed birthday is very important because very rarely people reach this age.
  36. 18th. And 20th.
  37. Next year I would have 18th bd and I'm planning to make it bigger because it's more important then others.
  38. Every birthday is important because in any birthday you give a time.
  39. No, I do not think that highly of birthdays of mine. It is just another day. I am grateful to my parents, so that's why this is important to me. I also do not like to celebrate others birthdays except my parents or my best friends, since hay are important and I like make them happy.
  40. The 18th birthday, since I celebrated it in France, during the exchange programme. My friends organised a surprised party that was amazing and left a huge impression on me.
  41. No, they were all the same as far as I remember. I don't know how my first birthday was celebrated. Probably it was a joy to my family and they made a huge thing out of it.
  42. Of course, the first one is the most important. Then 16th and 18th.
  43. No.
  44. Yes
  45. Well my 18th birthday was and still is very important. In my opinion every birthday is important.
  46. I suppose it's the eighteenth birthday, since you legally become an adult, so it's kind of big deal, isn't it?
  47. Well, my 18th birthday was really important because I became an adult, but in general, birthdays are not really important for me.
  48. The most important birthday to me will be when I turn 18, because it's when you become of age.
  49. No. Birthday is just a day when my age number changes.
  50. The most important birthdays are those you remember with smile :D
  51. I don't think there is a birthday more impoortant than the others, because they all are special and different in their own way.
  52. They're not that important to me.
  53. Maybe 18th birthday will be the mosk important.
  54. My 15 birthday, that will be in april will be special one - it will be asian themed. We will listen to asian pop, watch dramas and maybe even try some asian recepies
  55. Yup, anniversaries
  56. Ne
  57. Maybe no
  58. no
  59. No, every birthday is important equally.
  60. there is no such birthday.
  61. Theoretically yes (for ex. The First birthday, the 18th birthday . ..), but not for me personally.
  62. 20th birthday, because it's the age of becoming an adult (recently the law is being changed).
  63. Jubiliejai. Bet šiaip visi gimtadieniai yra gana panašūs.
  64. i think our first month celebration would be more.meaningful
  65. My birthday i celebrated in US. I always craved that friends would do something amazing for me, hidden suprise party and such. And i got everything from morning till midnight. I think it was amazing and i never heard that lithuanians would pull that and make such effort for others.
  66. Vadinami jubiliejiniai gimtadieniai. T.y. kai sukankantis amžius baigiasi 5 arba 0.
  67. Devades ar more important
  68. No