The famous poems and verses related to birthdays are as follows:
1. The beautiful face looks like a long one, with flowers and branches on its head, year after year.
It comes from "Revelation of Heartfelt Love (Friend's Birthday)" by Ge Shengzhong, a poet from the Song Dynasty, which means: May your face stay forever, like the flowers blooming on your head, and remain as beautiful year after year.
2. Like the permanence of the moon, like the rising of the sun; like the longevity of the Nanshan Mountain, which never rises or collapses. Just like the luxuriance of pines and cypresses, all of them can be inherited.
You are like the crescent moon, you are like the rising sun; you are as long-lived as Nanshan, and the country will not decline for thousands of years; you are as lush as pines and cypresses, and will be passed on to your descendants. The blessing and blessing poems from "The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Tianbao" are profound and implicit, and we can use them as blessings to our elders.
3. Nothing happens in spring every year, and the beauty is always beautiful when we meet.
It comes from "A Birthday Gift to Yin Zi" by Qu Dajun, a poet in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The general idea is to say that I hope you will always be free from illness and disaster, and be safe. Every time I see you, I will always see your ageless face. Concise, sincere and beautiful, give it to the one in your heart.
4. From now on, the spring breeze will smile, and you will become a longevity immortal in the world.
Another gentle and elegant congratulatory message, the original sentence comes from "Partridge Sky" by Li Nai, a poet in the Song Dynasty. From today on, you can freeze your smile like the spring breeze and be a longevity immortal in the world.
Knowledge expansion:
Birthday refers to both the day a person is born and the anniversary of a person’s birth. Traditionally, Chinese people calculate birthdays based on the lunar calendar. A child's first birthday is called "one year old", and there are various customs.
The birthdays of the elderly are called birthdays, and those over 50 years old can call them birthdays on the tenth day. In Chinese tradition, longevity noodles and eggs are eaten on birthdays. With the gradual change of modern times, many people use the solar calendar to calculate their birthdays, and the way of celebration has changed to cakes and candles.
Different countries and cultural traditions have different definitions of when a birthday falls. Therefore, Easterners and Westerners often have differences in interpreting birthdays. This is one of the salient features brought about by cultural differences. Chinese people also celebrate birthdays at different times.
Generally, people in the South calculate their birthdays based on the Gregorian calendar of the day of birth, while people in the North calculate their birthdays based on the lunar calendar. Some people also calculate birthdays based on the Gregorian and lunar calendars.
The birthday date of Westerners is relatively simple. The date is the Gregorian calendar date of the day of birth. In this way, if your birthday happens to be February 29th, you will have a birthday every leap year.