{"id":1747,"date":"2021-11-11T22:50:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2022-03-24T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T08:19:35","slug":"the-reason-behind-cutting-a-cake-and-blowing-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/the-reason-behind-cutting-a-cake-and-blowing-candles\/","title":{"rendered":"The reason behind cutting a cake and blowing candles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We all have seen that no celebration is complete without cake and candles. The trend of cutting a cake<\/a><\/strong> and blowing candles is followed for ages. Whether it is a birthday or an anniversary or any occasion, we always have cake and candles to celebrate it. Indeed, any happy occasion needs a celebration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cutting a cake and blowing candles is not an Indian tradition rather it is a ritual that Roman’s practiced initially. Cake and candles were a major part of their birthday or wedding ceremonies. German bakeries started selling cakes as German families celebrated their children’s birthday where they used to have a cake-cutting ceremony. The whole celebration was called  Kinder fest. However, in India, any occasion was celebrated by doing prayer and offering some sweet delicacies to god. In India, sweets hold a lot of importance to celebrate an occasion. This is why Indian families started the cake-cutting ceremony and offered it too as a sweet to god. While people do so, they seek blessings from god on special days in India. After that, a get-together would take place where people would exchange gifts and shower blessings. Indians have adopted this modern culture of cutting a cake and blowing candles. Thus, cutting a cake is a mixed tradition that is followed worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A cake always has candles over it. And before cutting the cake, one is supposed to close eyes, make a wish and blow the candles. The ritual is exciting and fun which is enjoyed by kids especially. But, have you ever thought that why is this done? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is believed that the smoke of candles will carry all the wishes to the god. Out of all the candles, 1 is never blown for the same reason. One should never share his or her wishes with anyone, that is, it should be a secret wish between the person and the god. Another reason for blowing candles is that the Greek’s believed that it is a way of worshipping the goddess Artemis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We all have seen that no celebration is complete without cake and candles. The trend of cutting a cake and blowing candles is followed for ages. Whether it is a birthday or an anniversary or any occasion, we always have cake and candles to celebrate it. Indeed, any happy occasion needs a celebration.  Cutting a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[472,475,482,483,478,491,481,488,495,485,492,497,498,493,480,476,474,473,484,496,494,479,490,486,489,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.togetherv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}