스크랩 Sixtieth Birthday

[punuri]

Sixtieth Birthday
The sixtieth birthday was considered highly significant as many
people were short-lived. It was customary at this time for children to
honor their parents with a large feast to wish them a long, healthy life.
The parents sat at a table laden with special foods to receive
traditional bows and wine from their children.
Relatives, neighbors, and friends of the parents were all invited to the
feast and treated to food and entertainment. Even if the parents were
already dead, a ritual was performed on the day of what would have
been their sixtieth birthday. Close relatives commemorated the
deceased at this time.
A variety of fruits, oil-and-honey pastry, confections, rice cakes of
five colors, sliced boiled meat, and fish were prepared for the feast. The foods were piled high to
make the table look more sumptuous and to reach a height of an odd-number of ch'i, a traditional  measuring unit: five ch'i, seven ch'i or nine ch'i. Since this acted as a measure of the wealth of
the family giving the feast, excessive resulted in many strongly negative side effects. Many
families continue this ritual today.