🇨🇳How does China mark Birthdays and Blessings?

Everyday topic

Mainland China's Civil Code defines majority and legal capacity by completed years, and official documents use that count throughout. The traditional count remains in everyday use, though, especially in the north and in rural areas, when older relatives ask an age, when the zodiac sign is worked out, or when a date is chosen. Milestone banquets tend to start at sixty, seventy or eighty, and where the custom of marking the ninth rather than the tenth is kept, the banquet is held a year early. Longevity noodles are the common element; the cake was added later. Both the Gregorian and the lunar birthday are usually remembered for the same person, and which one is kept tends to be decided by the elders in the household.