Candles, in addition to being used for lighting in daily life, are indispensable in birthday parties, religious festivals and other important ceremonies.

Birthday is an important node in the life process. Life must have a sense of ritual. Eating birthday cakes and blowing out candles has become a common choice for people to celebrate. When the birthday person makes a wish silently in his heart, he can blow out all the birthday candles in one breath, and the wish will come true. This custom has been passed down to modern times and has become popular in many countries.

Birthday candles represent good luck and express good wishes and wishes. The light of the candles is warm and bright, giving people a hopeful feeling.

The Origin of Birthday Candles

The tradition of lighting candles on birthday cakes dates back to the ancient Greeks, who worshiped Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the god of the hunt. On her annual birthday celebration, people light many small candles on the full moon-like honey cake, and then put them on the altar of the god Artemis to worship the moon goddess. The round honey cake symbolizes the moon, and the lit candles represent moonlight to express special respect for the moon goddess.

As time went by, the ancient Greeks always liked to put cakes and other things on the table when celebrating children’s birthdays, and put many lighted candles on them, and added a new activity-blowing out the lighted candles. Candle. According to traditional folk beliefs, the ancient Greeks believed that lit candles had mystical powers. After blowing out the candles, the smoke from the candles could reach the birthday person’s patron saint. If people make a wish to the candles and then blow out all the candles in one breath, the wishes in their hearts will definitely come true. So blowing out candles has become a small program with auspicious significance on birthday parties. Later, it gradually developed to the interesting activity of blowing out candles no matter in birthday parties or banquets of children, adults or even the elderly.

Nature Composition of Birthday Candles

The main raw material of candles is paraffin wax, which is made from the waxy fraction of petroleum by cold pressing or solvent dewaxing. It is a mixture of higher alkanes. The texture of candles is relatively easy to melt, with low density and insoluble in water. After being heated, it will melt into a liquid state, and after being ignited, there will be some special gases. Birthday candles are processed on the basis of ordinary candles, and their main ingredients are natural palm wax and food coloring.

Some high-end birthday candles can be lit with a variety of flames, which are very beautiful. The reason why birthday candles burn out in various colors is because they do not add any metal elements, but add different colors of pigments to become various colors. It is made by adding some corresponding auxiliary materials into paraffin and using the principle of chemical reaction. Frequently added excipients include white oil, stearic acid, polyethylene, essence, etc. Among them, stearic acid is mainly used to improve the softness, and the specific addition depends on what kind of candles are produced.

The substances produced by lighting birthday candles are water and carbon dioxide, which are harmless to human health.

How birthday candles burn

Candle combustion refers to the violent oxidation reaction between paraffin and oxygen. Paraffin is a very stable alkane. When burning, paraffin molecules first split into carbon and hydrogen atoms, and oxygen split into oxygen atoms at the same time, and then the oxygen atoms were separated from carbon atoms. , hydrogen atoms combined, candle burning is the embodiment of this process.

The line in the middle of the candle is called the wick, which acts to absorb the liquid candle. When the candle was just produced, there was a solid candle on the wick. When the candle was lit with fire, the solid wax oil was heated, first melted and then vaporized, and then the wax oil vapor was ignited by the fire, so that the candle was lit.

When the candle burns, it releases heat to melt the solid candle below, is sucked up by the wick, and continues to be heated, melted, vaporized, and ignited by the fire above, thus forming a cycle.

At the moment when the candle is blown out, a wisp of white smoke can be seen. Lighting the wisp of white smoke with a burning match can make the candle re-ignite, because the white smoke is the solid tiny particles produced by the condensation of paraffin vapor. .

Types of birthday candles

Colored candles:

Colored candles are relatively common, and generally have long strips and spiral shapes. In modern life, candles are also indispensable at birthday parties. Birthday candles have evolved into 12 colors such as yellow and blue, and the appearance is more compact and exquisite.

Number candles:

When celebrating my child’s birthday, I also like to put a cake on the table, and insert many lighted candles on the cake. And also added the content of blowing out the number candles. They believe that the burning candles have some kind of magical and hidden power. can get one’s wish

Alphabet candles:

Alphabet candles are colorful, and color matching is not an easy task.

1. If there is natural light in the place where the color is toned, if there is no natural light, the correct color cannot be adjusted. In addition, do not paste colored sunshade film on the glass doors and windows of the room when the letter candle is toned, because the colored sunshade film will modify the color of natural light in the room, causing errors in color matching.

2. To color the letter candles, you need to compare the color card and the color of the sample, and find out the corresponding color pigments in the material library. If you find that the color of the color card is different from the original formula, you should try to choose the color masterbatch of the original formula and find a suitable color masterbatch in the color master card according to the color difference, and gradually increase the content of the color masterbatch, so that the color will gradually change from light to dark or from Light to dark.

3. If you do not have enough control over the color formula of the letter candle, it is recommended to make a small amount of adjustment according to the formula first, follow the principle of a small amount and many times, and see how the color effect is, and then decide whether to make adjustments in the formula. The principle of “from light to dark” is to appropriately increase or increase the content of certain color masterbatches for the assimilation of the initial formula, which can reduce the waste of the color matching process, and can get the desired color faster and better.

Cartoon candles:

As the name suggests, cartoon candles are cartoon-shaped candles. Because of their rich colors, cute shapes, and various shapes, they can be given to friends as gifts or placed at home as decorative items. They are deeply loved by young people and children. The production method of cartoon candles is also very simple. The important component is paraffin wax, which is also made by means of molds. After it is made, it can be colored in different colors according to different shapes. There are also many shapes of cartoon candles. As long as you have a doll you like and meet the requirements for making cartoon candle molds, you can make your favorite cartoon candles. Our cartoon candle prototypes are made with a smooth surface and no bubbles. After coloring , looks vivid and very cute.

birthday candle colors

Birthday candles come in five colors: white, blue, pink, red, and yellow. When inserting candles on a birthday, it is necessary to determine the number and number of candles according to the age of the person celebrating the birthday.

White represents 5 to 8 years old,

Blue represents 9 to 14 years old,

Pink represents 15 to 19 years old,

Red represents 20 to 26 years old,

Yellow represents 27 to 35 years old.

A set of standard birthday cake candles is divided into 4 colors, 3 for each color, a total of 12 birthday candles. According to the color of the candle from light to dark, it represents 1 year old, 2 years old, 10 years old and 20 years old respectively.

Because these 12 candles can form any number up to 99. For example, 39 years old can be composed of 3 candles representing 1 year old, 3 candles representing 2 years old, 1 candle representing 10 years old and 1 candle representing 20 years old. Composed of candles, put these candles on the birthday cake, and you will be 39 years old.

Birthday candles are one of the essential elements when celebrating birthdays, and they have also become an interesting cultural symbol. Birthday candles represent good luck and express good wishes and wishes. The light of the candle is warm and bright, which can give people a hopeful feeling.