Originally, it referred to celebrating someone's birthday.
Once a person passed fifty.
There was a small celebration every year and a grand celebration every ten years. During a grand birthday celebration, a feast was held, and relatives and friends came to offer their congratulations: May your fortune be as vast as the East Sea, and may you live as long as the Southern Mountain.
There were rules to birthday congratulations as well.
For example.
If someone was older than you or of a higher generation, you only offered congratulations. You did not bow.
But if it was a young person.
Someone of a junior generation.
Then, according to the old rules, they had to kowtow.
Later, kowtowing fell out of fashion, but no matter what, they still had to bow respectfully.
That raised a question.
What would happen if someone whose lifespan exceeded yours.
Came to offer you birthday congratulations?
Suppose you were fifty, and a hundred-year-old came to kowtow to you.
What would happen?
A centenarian was already a revered elder.
Even if, according to the family genealogy, he counted as your junior, you absolutely could not let him kowtow to you.
It would shorten your lifespan.
And damage your fortune.
So you had to hurry over and support him.
"I really couldn't accept such honor!"
In the Normal World, even if you were less than human and let him kowtow to you, at most others would gossip about it. Most likely, you would not truly encounter any misfortune.
But this was the Supernatural World. Some things were different here.
The old man kowtowed reverently.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
The sound was dull.
Like someone beating a muffled drum, and it even had a steady rhythm.
But Jiang Qiao sensed the surrounding environment rapidly changing. The lifeless town seemed to