Question by bish: From where and how the idea of birthday celebration came with cutting of a cake ?
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Answer by Vulcan
It came from times of starvation – not that long ago. A cake IS life itself when there isn’t much food. And the cutting of the cake is the “food sharing” behavior that humans have developed over all these thousands of years of hunting and bringing home the kill.
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Like wedding and graduations come with a cake its like traditional celebration, of a mile stone for hundreds of years in europe
Cakes are a nice treat, something that you might have only once in a while, maybe to celebrate something. How about celebrating a birthday with a cake? Seems like a good idea.
I mean, yes, you could ask why they don’t serve pie, donuts, pancakes, or candy bars instead. But it’s just so much easier to make a cake look fancy, by decorating it with frosting, and cakes take a bit more work, so you want to save it for a special occasion.
As for cutting the cake– how else are you going to serve it to all of your guests? Unless you are willing to let them dig in with their own hands and grab what they want…
The one tradition that I can’t come up with an answer for is blowing out the candles. But, you didn’t ask about that.
In the U.S., and perhaps in Britain, one makes a wish immediately before blowing out the candles on ones own birthday cake. If one blows out all the candles with one breath, the wish supposedly will come true. The wish is connected with blowing out the candles, not with cutting the cake.
Why will we have a good time birthdays and have birthday parties in honor of the celebrant? It began when people took discover of the moon’s cycles and made a system to trace time referred to as the calendar. This made folks acknowledge their birth dates and thus celebrated it each passing year. The primary celebrations have been made in the course of the rise of Christianity and so they believed that evil spirits harmed folks especially in the course of the time of their birthday. Thus, birthday parties and celebrations were made whereby the celebrant is surrounded by his loved ones and pals to make him completely happy and thrust back the evil spirits. Presents weren’t even a part of birthday celebrations earlier than, but friends provided their heat wishes and good ideas to the celebrant.