Ancient Traditions of Birthday Celebrations

For ages, mankind has celebrated life events with much fervor and joy. In every culture around the world, traditions of life-events celebrations still persist today. And amongst them, the most commonly celebrated life-event is birthdays. It is perfectly logical as birthdays are the most important event in every person’s life.  Birthdays are commemorations of the day a person came into this world and took the first breath of life. Birthdays are marks new beginnings, regeneration and fresh hopes and birthday celebrations are celebrations of life itself and all its joy and blessings.

Birthday celebrationsare joyous occasions filled with lots of festivities, wishes, cheers and gifts.The tradition of celebrating birthdays goes long back into history when people were quite superstitious and ignorant. The earliest birthday celebrations were held as a means to ward off evil spirits which supposedly attacked people on the day of their birth. The spirits were particularly attracted to people on their birthdays and in order to ward the evil spirits off People would gather together with the birthday celebrant and spend the day with him or her. The friends and family would come along with gifts such as “Noisemakers” to make loud noises in the hope of scaring away the evil spirits. The people also believed that the gifts, prayers and wishes of the guests were effective against the spirits and these traditions have continued even to this day.Modern day birthday celebrations are a culmination of all these ancient traditions from all around the world.

In the olden times, it was only the rulers, the rich and privileged class who were able to celebrate their birthdays due to the enormous costs involved in the celebrations. In the times of the Roman empire, people enthusiastically celebrated the birthdays of rulers and foundation dates of cities and temples with lavish parties and generous presents. But as time went by and living standards improves, common people also began to celebrate their birthdays.

Nowadays birthdays are the most popular occasions celebrated by millions everywhere. The birthday celebrations may vary in style and tradition from one culture to another but the essence of the celebrations remains the same.  It is an opportunity to wish our loved ones with wishes and gifts and make them feel special. And amongst the most popular form of gifts are flowers. People have always had a fascination with flowers, they are always welcomed anyday and anytime of the year. A bouquet of flowers is ideal as a birthday gift, and in this modern age of the internet sending flower bouquets for birthdays is a relatively simple affair. All one has to do is log into the site of any florist such as the Dubai flower centre and order their flowers or flower arrangements delivered on time for the birthday celebrations.