Birthday wishes include: Turtle Year and Crane Longevity, Sea House Caitian, Good Luck, Longevity and Kangning, Good Luck as the East Sea, Longevity as Nanshan

1. Turtle Year and Crane Longevity [guī nián hè shòu ] According to legend, turtles and cranes have thousands of lives, and they are used as metaphors for people's longevity. Or used as a birthday wish.

Source: Song Dynasty Hou Zhi's "Shui Diao Ge Tou·Promoting Punishment and Longevity for Zheng Zili": "Sitting and enjoying the longevity of a turtle, wearing a goldfish and jade belt, often close to an ocher yellow robe."

Translation: Enjoying a long life, holding an official position, and being close to the emperor.

2. Haiwu tiān [hǎi wū chóu tiān] originally refers to longevity, and later it was used as a birthday wish.

Source: "Dongpo Zhilin·Three Lao Yu" by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty: When the sea water turns into mulberry fields, I often take a piece of it. You (nearly) come and I have already filled ten houses.

Translation: When the sea water turns into mulberry fields, I put a chip to record it. So far, my chips have filled ten rooms.

3. Blessings for longevity and health [fú shòu kāng níng]. It means that happiness, longevity, health, and peace are all blessings.

Source: Chen Liang of the Song Dynasty, "Yu Xia Qing's Epitaph": "It is possible to have good fortune, longevity, health, and descendants, so why should God be responsible for Xia Qing!"

Translation: May you be blessed with happiness, longevity, health, and peace, and your descendants will be talented, beautiful, and promising. God has really lived up to you, Xia Qing.

4. Blessings like the East Sea [fú rú dōng hǎi] words of blessing. I wish a person's blessing is as vast and boundless as the East China Sea. Often used together with "Shoubi Nanshan".

Source: "Qingpingshantang Huaben·The Story of the Lotus Girl Becoming a Buddha with Flower Lanterns and Sedan Chair" by Hong Ge of the Ming Dynasty: "Life is as long as the Nanshan Mountain; happiness is as good as the East Sea."

Translation: Lifespan Statue Zhongnan Mountain is as long-lasting, and blessings are as vast and boundless as the East China Sea.

5. Lifespan is as long as Nanshan Mountain [ shòu bǐ nán shān ]. Used as a blessing to the elderly (mostly used in conjunction with "Blessed as the East Sea"; Nanshan refers to Zhongnan Mountain, south of Xi'an, Shaanxi).

Source: Pre-Qin Dynasty·Anonymous "The Book of Songs·Xiaoya": "Like the permanence of the moon; like the rising of the sun; like the longevity of the Nanshan Mountain; it does not rise but does not collapse."

Translation: You Like the waxing moon that is getting full, and like the sun rising in the east, you are like Nanshan, whose life span is endless, and the country will not decline for thousands of years.