西方生日传统
在多数英语国家，人们在生日聚会上唱 祝你生日快乐歌，祝福过生日的人。一般是在生日Party上有人捧出点燃生日蜡烛的生日蛋糕时大家齐声歌唱（一般要关灯，保持房间黑暗）。生日蛋糕一般是一种装饰的非常漂亮的蛋糕，而且在端上来的时候上面要插上与寿星年龄一样多的 蜡烛。 寿星要默默的许个愿望，然后吹灭蜡烛。如果是一口气就吹灭了所有的蜡烛，那么愿望就可能实现。有种迷信说法认为如果把愿望说出来就不灵了。寿星一般要切蛋糕的第一刀，除非是太小父母才可以代劳。

如果生日聚会在一家餐馆举行，那么也会唱生日歌。餐厅的服务生可能还会领唱接着就会送上餐后甜点(可能是也可能不是蛋糕，可能免费也可能不免费)。 这个餐后甜点可能用一些发光的东西代替蜡烛。餐厅的其他顾客一般会加入进来一起祝福，唱歌。 在一些餐厅还会有特别的非传统生日歌去和舞蹈表演。

对于一些特别的生日或者因为蜡烛的数目会有引起火灾的风险，特殊的蜡烛可能会取代实际的多个小蜡烛。这些蜡烛做成数字的样子，例如5随生日可能在蛋糕上点一支象数字5的蜡烛，50岁生日点一支象数字50的蜡烛就行了。

生日对每个人来说都是很重特别的日子，所以一般过生日的人都会受到朋友和家人的特别待遇。所以小孩子都对自己的生日十分的期待，甚至希望早点来，但是成年人则比较反感，因为又有人来祝贺自己老了一岁。 除了聚会之外，在生日这一点还会有礼物送给过生日的人，一般来说会得到一大堆朋友和家人送的礼物。

孩子们的生日聚会一般比较有趣，还有许多有意思的游戏例如老鹰抓小鸡Pin the Tail on the Donkey, 抢座位游戏， hitting piñatas等。成年人的生日聚会就比较正式了，一般是在一家餐厅吃一顿丰盛的晚餐。不管在什么年龄，这些聚会的目的都是让过生日的人感到非常的幸福快了。有个笑话这样讲，生日有时被叫做一年内最美好的一天，生日后一天则是一年最糟糕的一天，因为到下一次生日还有一年呢！

还有一个传统叫 惊喜聚会。有时人们故意显得把某个人的生日忘记了，让要过生日的人感到自己被忽视了，而实际上大家都在暗中准备惊喜聚会。相反的，很多人对这个聚会也是守口如瓶，因为大家对这个聚会都很期待。

Western traditional birthday
In most English-speaking countries, people in the birthday party, singing songs Happy birthday to you, bless his birthday people. Birthday Party in general is on the people to endorse lit birthday candles when the birthday cake all singing in unison (general to turn off the lights, and maintain a dark room). Birthday cake decorated general is a very beautiful cake, and slices of the above should be stuck with the oldest age as many candles. Make the oldest to quietly look, and then Chuimie candles. If it is all in one breath on Chuimie candles, then it will be realized. Is a kind of superstition that if we do not desire to speak out of the Hope. General oldest cake to the first knife is too small unless parents can do.

If the birthday party held in a restaurant, then will sing the birthday song. Restaurant Health services may be leading singer then will bring dessert (which may or may not cake, and may be free or may not free). This dessert may be used to replace some of the things LED candles. The restaurant's other customers will be joined in a general blessing and singing. In some restaurants will have special birthday song to non-traditional and dance performances.

For some special birthday or because the number of candles will be the risk of fire, special candles will be replaced by the actual number of small candles. These figures look like candles caused, for example, may be 5 with birthday cake, as a number of points on 5 candles, 50-year-old at a birthday candles as the number 50 on the trip.

Everyone's birthday, are very special day, it is generally his birthday will be friends and family to the special treatment. Therefore, children have their own expectations very birthday, or even to earlier, but adults are more disgusted, because some people again to congratulate his old and one-year-old. Apart from the gathering, in this birthday will be a birthday gift to a person, in general will be a lot of friends and family sent gifts.

Children's birthday party generally more interesting, there are also many interesting games such as Laoyingzhuaxiaoji Pin the Tail on the Donkey, and looting seats games, such as hitting piñatas. Adults birthday party on the more formal, and most are in a restaurant eating a sumptuous dinner. No matter what age, these gatherings are for the purpose of the birthday person's happiness is very fast. There is a joke I say, birthday, sometimes called the best day within a year, the birthday is the day after the worst day of the year, because there are birthday next year?

Another pleasant surprise is the traditional gathering. Sometimes people seem deliberately to forget the birthday of a person, to let people feel that his birthday has been neglected, and in fact we all gathered in secret preparations for surprises. On the contrary, many people are also tight-lipped on the meeting, because we are looking forward to this meeting.