Birthday

Question 1:

How do children celebrate birthdays in your country? Or How did you celebrate your last birthday? Or Do people in China celebrate birthdays? Or Do people in China have birthday parties?

Sample answer:

Normally adults and kids in China would have a birthday party and invite their friends and family members to come and to have a feast together, maybe in a restaurant. Cakes are essential. And gift exchange is also an indispensable part of the ritual. And that's basically it.

Question 2:

What kinds of birthday gifts do you like to receive? Or What do children get for their birthdays in your country?

Sample answer:

Money, red envelope. I think most kids in China would receive things like toys or are some clothes. But as you get older, it's harder and harder for people to shop for you. The clothes they give you may not be to your taste. And then you need to return the gifts, it's just too much work.

Question 3:

Is there a difference between the way you celebrated your birthday in the past and in the present?

Sample answer:

Um, yeah, definitely I used to celebrate birthday with a cake when I was a kid. But now I don't celebrate birthdays anymore. I just, I don't think that's important at all. Age is just a number.

Question 4:

Which birthdays are especially important in China?

Sample answer:

There are a lot, actually. Like when babies are one year old, that is quite important, there will be a celebration. Also, age 24 that is also quite significant because that is called your "life year", or your "year of fate". And a lot of things could happen in that year. So it's very important for you to wear red underwear in that year because red can drive away evil things.

Question 5:

Do you think it's important for people to celebrate birthday? Or How important are birthdays in your country?

Sample answer:

I think it's considerably important, culturally speaking, a lot of Chinese people would consider certain age to be particularly important for a person, like when a person is 18 or when they are 24, and for the elderly 70, that kind of age is considered to be the beginning of a new chapter in life.

Question 6:

Do people in your country prefer to celebrate birthdays according to the lunar or the solar calendar?

Sample answer:

I guess the older generation, the elderly people prefer to celebrate a birthday according to the lunar calendar. But most people of the generation Z and people who are born after the eighties would celebrate birthdays according to the solar calendar.

Question 7:

Which one do you think is more important, the birthdays of a child or those of an adult?

Sample answer:

To be honest, I do not think neither of them are important. Our civilization has reached a point where the abundance of material has made it relatively impossible for us to enjoy a birthday or any other kinds of holiday because in the past, people can only have good things during holidays, during birthdays, now we can have good things all the time, so I think birthdays are not important.

Question 8:

Do you like to celebrate your birthday with your parents or with your friends?

Sample answer:

I think I've reached the point of my life where it's weird for me to celebrate my birthday with my parents because I'm too old to do so. I live an independent life. At some certain age, the parents-kids role just reverse, I feel more comfortable celebrating my parents' birthday than having them celebrating mine.

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