In ancient times, when there were no birthday cakes, what did people eat to celebrate birthdays?

In ancient times when there were no birthday cakes, people had more things to celebrate their birthdays. For example, longevity noodles, longevity peaches, boiled eggs, etc.

Eating boiled eggs on birthdays is a must-have for children in ancient times.

In ancient times, children could not use the word "shou" when celebrating their birthdays, they could only call them "birthday". On the birthday, the elders of the family will roll eggs around the child's body, which means that the child's luck will roll in with the arrival of the birthday. Then the eggs are cooked and given to the children. When I was a child, my mother always cooked boiled eggs for birthdays. There were no birthday cakes at that time, and that boiled egg was what I looked forward to all year long.

Eat longevity noodles on birthdays. Long noodles mean a long face and a long life.

The ancients liked to give the whole source of everything they did, and the same goes for eating longevity noodles. Because the face is also called the face, the face also represents a person's face, or represents a person's lifespan, because in physiognomy, the length of the philtrum represents the length of a person's lifespan. When people in ancient times celebrated their birthdays, they would always use flour to make longevity noodles for the birthday person to eat, which meant that he could live a long life. I remember hearing someone say before that the entire bowl of longevity noodles is made of one noodle and cannot be broken when eating. Now that I think about it, it is probably a joke. It is not easy to make.

For birthdays, flour is used to make longevity peaches, hoping that the elders will live long and healthy.

In ancient times, the birthdays of middle-aged and elderly people were called Guoshou. When these people celebrate their birthdays, their families will use flour to make many steamed buns of different shapes, the most common of which is longevity peach buns. The longevity peaches are steamed with leavened dough. When they come out of the cage, the tips of the peach are pink and the leaves are green. They look very pleasant. The taste of Shoudao is average, but the meaning is indeed very good.

Families with good conditions will also hold a big banquet on the birthday, inviting relatives and friends to gather together to celebrate the birthday of the birthday boy.