Why red is usually associated with birthdays?

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It's my birthday today. So, I figured, why not write something about my past related to it, since there's nothing much to tell about now. I guess, that's what you get from getting older. The older you get, the more boring your birthday becomes. Well, I don't really know as to how many countries practice this tradition. But where I grew up, when you're a kid celebrating your birthday, traditionally your mom or your dad lets you wear a red dress. Sometimes, even a red polka dot one. Much worse in my case, since I only have one red polka dress and I don't know why they're so fond of it, they let me wear it over and over for my every birthday. I think I wore that for three consecutive years until the dress looks like a blouse on me already. lol Anyway, I think associating red on birthday celebrations was started by chinese, if I'm not mistaken. And since I'm half chinese, I'm not surprise why my family follows this kind of tradition. But don't get me wrong, I have nothing against it (except for a fact that I was force to wear the same dress for my three birthdays, how embarrassing), I just find it funny. Then I found an old photo of ours, it was my grandpa's birthday and we ate at a nearby chinese restaurant.I was surprised to see that on the family photo taken (including my uncles, aunts and a dozen of cousins of mine), we were all wearing, guess what, red! hahaha We look like rebels in proper coded uniform calling for a revolution, ready to explode anytime. Good thing that we didn't though. lol