Need help understanding and drawing symbol
Hey! Excuse my ignorance and complete lack of knowledge in advance (please bear with me as I will probably be asking very basic and obvious questions)
My grandfather is turning 100, so of course we are having a celebration with extended family, and I have been put in charge of the messaging for the party favours/thank you notes. I think my grandmother would like them to have the Chinese symbol for longevity, and has provided this photo for me (attached)
but I will have to redraw it myself, just because of how the printing will work. When I look it up to see if a digital stylistic version exists already, I get many different symbols and many do not look like the photo at all.
I need to know how best to recreate it as I fear there are nuances that I do not understand and will miss if i simply trace the symbol, or copy a symbol off the internet.
Any help in understanding this would be immensely appreciated. Also if there are any additional suggestions as to what would be appropriate to put on the card, those are also quite welcome!
EDIT: last sentence for grammar
Also if anyone is willing to translate the symbols on the side in the second photo I would be so grateful.