What is the origin of Christmas?

Christmas, celebrated every year on December 25, is the day Christians commemorate the birth of Jesus, known as Christmas. Next week is Christmas, do you think about how to spend Christmas? What is the origin of Christmas?

From December 24th to January 6th of the following year is the Christmas festival. During the holiday, Christians in all countries held a solemn commemorative ceremony, Christmas was originally a Christian holiday, because people pay extra attention, it became a national holiday, the country's biggest festival of the year, can be compared with the New Year, similar to our country over the Spring Festival.

Westerners use red, green and white as the Christmas colors, and when Christmas comes, every house will be decorated with Christmas colors. The red ones are Christmas flowers and Christmas candles, and the green ones are Christmas trees. It is the main decoration of Christmas, and is made of evergreen trees such as cedar and cypress, which are cut down in the shape of a tower. It is decorated with colorful lights, gifts and paper flowers and lit with Christmas candles.

Red against white is Santa Claus, the most popular figure at Christmas events. Before going to bed on Christmas Eve, Western children place a stocking in front of the fireplace or next to their pillows and wait for Santa Claus to put presents inside the stocking after they fall asleep. It is also a custom in the West to play Santa Claus.

Christmas Eve: Christmas Eve is also known as Christmas Day, when families gather in the living room, sing Christmas songs around the Christmas tree, exchange gifts with each other, share their joys and sorrows, and express their heartfelt blessings and love. On this night you will see a group of cute little boys or girls, holding poems and playing guitars, and families singing songs to announce the good news.

Christmas PARTY: An essential program of Christmas, there are family, friends, lovers of all kinds of PARTY. a kind of friendship, affection, love a good time to get together. Wearing Christmas hats, singing Christmas songs, talking about everyone's Christmas wishes.

Christmas dinner: Christmas as a grand celebration of the holiday, can not be less delicious and delicious food. Christmas turkey dinner is the main course of the routine, before the people may use the microwave oven to do their own, people are much more festive is to eat out in the restaurant, the businessmen will take advantage of the opportunity to earn customers money, of course, there are a lot of Christmas food, gingerbread, sweets and so on.

Christmas hat: that is a red hat, it is said to wear at night to sleep in addition to sleep peacefully and a little warm, the next day you will also find in the hat more than a little beloved one to send gifts. In the carnival night it is the protagonist of the scene, no matter you go to that corner, you will see a variety of red hats, some of them have a cap tip shiny, some of them are shiny gold.

Christmas socks: the earliest before is a pair of red socks, how much can be, because the Christmas socks are to be used to load the gift, the children's favorite thing, the night they will hang their socks on the bedside, waiting for the next morning's receipt of gifts. What if someone gives a small car for Christmas? Then it's best to just tell him to write a check and put it in the stocking.

Christmas card: A Christmas and New Year's card with a picture of the story of the birth of Jesus and the words "Celebrate Christmas and Happy New Year.

Carols: The hymns sung at Christmas are called "Christmas carols". There are many Christmas carols, and most of them are taken from the famous compositions of famous musicians. Often sung "universal rejoicing, the Savior fell", (Joy to the World!), "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" (Hark! the Herald Angels Sing), "Christmas bells" (I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day), and so on, among them to the "Christmas Eve" (Silent Night) is the most famous.

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Christmas Tree: It is said that around the sixteenth century, the Germans were the first to take the branches of evergreen pines and cypresses to the house to decorate, and later, the German missionary Martin Luther put the candles on the branches of fir trees in the woods, and then lighted them to make it look like the starlight that guided the people to Bethlehem, just as the Three Doctors of the Orient found Jesus in accordance with the star in the sky 2,000 years ago. Today, people have switched to using small light bulbs instead of candles. It is said that a farmer received a hungry child on a snowy Christmas Eve and gave him a good Christmas dinner. The child said goodbye by breaking a cedar branch and sticking it in the ground and blessing it, saying, "Every year on this day, the branches are full of gifts, and I will leave this beautiful village of cedars to repay you for your kindness." After the child left, the farmer found that the branch had turned into a small tree, and he realized that he had received a messenger from God. This story became the source of the Christmas tree. In the West, whether or not Christians, Christmas should prepare a Christmas tree to increase the joyful atmosphere of the holiday. Christmas trees are usually made of evergreen trees such as cedar, symbolizing the longevity of life. The tree is decorated with a variety of lights and candles, colorful flowers, toys, stars, and hung with a variety of Christmas gifts. On Christmas night, people sing and dance around the tree and enjoy themselves.