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Hi

Everyone

And welcome back to the new segment

Also that's why

原来如此

Hi Allan

Hi lulu

Hi everyone

And in this new segment

Allan and i will explore the origin and the causes of some of the most common human behaviors sometimes in general

Sometimes in western culture

And these behaviors are so common

That we often just take them for granted

Yes

So what we gonna talk about today

Well

Today we can be talking about birthdays

嗯

Because is your birthday coming up soon isn't it yes

Oh Yeah

This year you are eighteen

Eighteen okay

I can believe that you don't look look good day over eighteen

Good safe

So we can be talking about birthday candles

Because so i say why do we blow out birthday candles

嗯

I really have never thought about that isn't that just making a wish

Kind of think it's making a wish

But think about it

Why do we put little candles on cakes

Yeah

It's you know it really baffled me

Yeah

For because i was like you know you want to eat the cake

And then you wawax on

Yeah

And sometimes if there re's no holder

There there re's no candle lder

Yeah

Then the wax goes directly into the cake

And nobody wants that

So why where did this ritual actually come from

And let me guess wwyou guys

It comes from ancient roma

No

It comes from maine greece

Okay

It's one of those

不是古罗马就是古希腊

So this time is ancient greeks

Yeah 嗯

So the greeks had the goddess called ultimsts optimasts are 特弥as isn't that artana yep

So the goldess of the moon

嗯 对

在罗马神里它就叫戴安娜

在希腊神里面它就叫ultimsts yep

So ultimsts was gogoless at the moon on

And the eeks had their own version of mooncakes

And what they used to do

Was they added candles to make the cake glow like the moon

Oh

So they had their home 月饼eventually pretty much

So similar to other cultures

They believe that the smoke from the candles carried the wishes and praise up to the god or the goddess

I see so it's the smoke that carries it yes

So that's why

If it momost like that is not very good candle

Oh Yeah

But that's pretty much

Why we blow out candles

It's not because the candandthemselves

It's the smoke that causes them to rise

Therefore when you blow out a candle

They're smoke coming out of it

Yeah

And that smoke is sending the wish you just made to the guards

Yes

Up heaven

So in germany

Many the seventeen hundreds

That's when people started celebrating children's birthdays or kinda fest so child festival

Also before that it wasn't linked with birthday

It was just full moon or moon

Yeah Ah

And what they used to do

Was they had a candle for each year of the child's life

That's the original birthday cake candles

Yes so when germans were celebrating it in the seventeen hundreds

Where they putting these candles on the birthday cakes

Yeah

Exactly

And that was when we started doing it as part of the birthday ritul

So we linked this ancient tradition and this more modern tradition

So you get a cake

You blow out the candles

While you make a silent wish yeah

I've heard about that saying that you should not let people know your wish

Because if you wish for something out loud

Yeah

It's never going to come true

Yeah

So you have to make a silent wish

And then blow out the candles isn't there a role that you have to blow out the candles in

No matter how old you are

You blow out the candles in one breath

Yeah

You will guarantee that your wish will come true yep

Because essentially it's a lot of smoke at the same time

So it's going up to heavens

Quicker can people just buy better quality candles

So it doesn't give out smoke

Well

That's the whole point men to get out smoke

So we just buy really poor quality candles

So it gives out more of smoke

Yeah

Um nowadays

We don't really put the number of candles

We just have number of candles makes it easier

Yeah

Number candles or just a few candles

Um it's no

No harthan candle

Yeah

I mean for me

It's just eighteen

So it's not too much

Yeah Right

Okay Okay

My let's

Let's go with that yeah

No jokes aside come to think of it

That is right blowing out candles

Although now is such a common place in china

We have so many bakeries offering birthday cakes and the candles that go with it

But it's not a chinese tradition

We used the 长寿al

Yeah

But we still sometimes do

And some many older people

If you ask them

They would say or 我不过生日

If you really had that kind of celebrations

Yeah

So it's a distinctively western

It is

It is

And pretty much

Everyone has the same kind of birthday celebration

It's always a cake

There's always candles

No matter

If it's with a large group or just a few friends or family

Or if you're really sad

Alone Oh

Alone in the dark gp

Yeah

Also that as well so do you

You do that your family songs

Yeah

When someone's having a birthday party or a birthday

You will buy the cake

Put the candle on ask this person to make a wash

And blow out the candle

That is it um

You think birthday songs as well

Of course you do

Of course you do

I see so now before we wrap up this episode

Let us talk about some useful phrases relating to blowing out birthday candles for example

People say make a wish yeah

So we would say normally make a wish

Obviously you don't say what the wishes

But people will just nme ly say ah make a wish um

And then blow out the candles

Blow out the candles yeah

To blow out the candles

You know you're really

Really woty

You buy one of those trick candles

Yeyeah

Cat out

Flow out

Ah my parenis try to do that one ce nais very very annoying

Does that mean very very annoying

Because you're like why can i blow out the candles

Does that mean my wish not come true

But the birthday cake should always be a surprise

This is one thing in britain for example

But even though you know you're going to get a cake

It should always be a surprise

You know what next time i'll surprise you by just smashing it right in your face

You'll never see it coming

Or you could just throw me a surprise party

No

That's too much work no

Okay

I'll just smash it in your face

Charme releast is big expecting so not actually on my birthday

You me

Yeah

I mean they offer cakes every day

Wothey every go so 嗯

Uh

But you taltalking throwing a surprise birthday party

Yes

It's very interesting

They used the word throw a party

Yeah

To be else i don't know why

I really don't know why we say through a surprise party

It just means to organize a surprise party

去组织或者去办一个yeah 惊喜派对

就是对方不知道的这个yeah

I hate surprise parties

I had a surprise party

Once before i got really ay embarrassed 爱你

Yeah

Because you don't really know who's going to show show up

And if you are getting the cake or the gifts that you don't really like

You have to pretend

Yes

As one thing i don't want to do

On my birthday is to pretend to like things i don't like

No

So unless

You know me very well

Don't throw me surprise parties

Please don't yeah

Um 是we are

We're so boring

We are very very very boring

Um

And one more thing remember earlier on we

We're making fun of my agia all that yeah

But there is something you can say

After they blew out the candles

You can say you don't look a day over

For example is there thirty as birthday

Yeah

You say you don't look a day over thirty

Yeah

Exactly it means that you look very young

So you can make it

It's like a sort of birthday

Like

Like h you don't look a day over sixty

Or you can make it into something a bit sweater

Like i would say to lu

You don't look a day over eighteen

And i take that as an honest comment make of it

What you will all right on that note

We're going to wrap up

Today leave us comment in a commment section and putting your request for whatever human behavior

That you want us to talk about seven til next time we see you next time

Bye bye

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