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Christmas dinner is just like the Chinese Spring Festival to eat New Year's dinner, Europe and the United States for Christmas is also very focused on the whole family sitting around the Christmas tree, *** into the holiday meal.

The custom of eating turkey for Christmas dinner began in 1620. This custom flourished in the United States. The English have roast goose for Christmas dinner, not turkey. Austrians love Christmas Eve, the whole family about friends and relatives in groups to the restaurant to eat a Christmas dinner, which, turkey, chicken, roast cowboy meat and pork leg essential, accompanied by famous wine, eat everyone happy.

The origins of turkey at Christmas

Roasted turkey is traditionally served at the Christmas table. In some Asian countries, turkey may be eaten only on Christmas Day to celebrate the festive season; but in Europe and America, especially the American continent, turkey is a very common meat, and it is even a traditional food on the two big days of Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Turkey is a specialty of the Americas, and was domesticated by the Indians before Europeans came to the Americas. The name turkey is "Turkey" in English. Because Europeans think it looks like the Turkish costume: body black head red. Europeans loved to eat roast goose. After immigrating to the Americas, they had a request to eat goose before they could raise it well, so they ate turkey and found that turkey was better than goose. And there were a lot of turkeys in North America. So roasted turkey has become a big dish for Americans, essential for important holidays. This custom has a history of more than three hundred years. It is said that on Christmas Day in 1620, a large number of immigrants from England arrived in the American continent, Portsmouth Hill. At that time, there was a scarcity of produce there, only turkeys were found all over the mountains, so they caught turkeys as the main dish for the holiday. Therefore, in addition to ham, sweet potatoes, vegetables, raisin pudding, fruitcake, cocktails, Christmas dinner, of course, there is no lack of turkey this "brother"!

The most traditional way to prepare a turkey is very simple, all you need to do is to rub it well inside and out with salt and pepper, and then roast it in the oven for about 3 hours. Turkey has been eaten for nearly 400 years. The "Dinner" in "Christmas Dinner" and "Thanks giving Dinner" symbolizes the harvest and reunion. "It was not originally meant to be eaten at dinner, but at noon. Instead, it should be eaten at noon. Thanksgiving Day falls on Thursday, the fourth week of November. It is very close to Christmas, which is the big holiday of the year. And Christmas is the day to give thanks for the coming of Jesus. Thus, the turkey dinner, which symbolizes thanksgiving, extends to Christmas.

[edit]Christmas Decorations and Arrangements

In Western countries, Christmas is also a time of family reunion and festivities, and the Christmas tree is usually dressed up. Whether Christian or not, a Christmas tree is prepared for Christmas in the West to add to the joyous 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.

Christmas decorations include Christmas decorations and Christmas lights to decorate the tree, indoor wreaths and evergreens to decorate, especially holly and mistletoe is traditionally used materials. In North and South America and a few European regions, the outdoors is traditionally decorated with lights, including sleighs, snowmen, and other Christmas images decorated with lights. Holly and mistletoe are the traditional materials used. In North and South America and a few parts of Europe, the outdoors is traditionally decorated with lights, including sleighs, snowmen and other Christmas images decorated with lights.

The traditional Christmas flower is the gorilla wood (also known as poinsettia and Christmas red, with scarlet, pink and cream flowers). Christmas plants also include holly, red lone flower, and Christmas cactus.

Municipalities in general also support Christmas decorations by hanging Christmas banners in the streets or placing Christmas trees in squares. In the United States, decorations have also been sued several times for including religious themes, which the prosecution argues is a government endorsement of a particular religious practice and a violation of religious freedom.

Christmas tree

Christmas treeThe Christmas tree is one of the most famous traditions of the Christmas celebration. Usually people get an evergreen plant such as a pine tree inside or outside around Christmas and decorate it with Christmas lights and colorful ornaments. And put an angel or star on top of the tree.

An evergreen tree decorated with fir or yew pine with lights and ornaments as part of the Christmas celebration. The modern Christmas tree originated in Germany. The Germans decorated a fir tree (the tree in the Garden of Eden) in their homes on December 24th of each year, Adam and Eve's Day, and hung cookies on it to symbolize the Holy Bread (the symbol of Christian atonement). In recent times, small sweet cakes have been used instead of cookies, and candles symbolizing Christ are often added. In addition, there is the Christmas Tower, a wooden triangular structure with many small shelves for the statue of Christ, decorated with evergreen branches, candles and a star. By the 16th century, the Christmas Tower and the Eden Tree were combined to form the Christmas Tree.

In the 18th century, the custom was popular among German Lutherans, but it wasn't until the 19th century that it became a nationwide, deep-rooted tradition in Germany.

In the early 19th century, the Christmas tree was introduced to England; in the mid-19th century it was popularized by Albert, the German crown prince and husband of Queen Victoria. The Victorian Christmas tree was decorated with candles, candies and fancy pastries, and hung from the branches with ribbons and paper chains. Christmas trees were brought to North America by German immigrants as early as the 17th century and became popular in the 19th century. It was also popular in Austria, Switzerland, Poland and the Netherlands. In China and Japan, Christmas trees were introduced by American missionaries in the 19th and 20th centuries and are decorated with colorful paper flowers.

In Western countries, Christmas is also a time of family reunion and celebration, and a Christmas tree is usually displayed in the home. In the West, Christians and non-Christians alike prepare a Christmas tree to add to the festive atmosphere. 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.

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Municipalities also support Christmas decorations by hanging Christmas banners in the streets or placing Christmas trees in squares. In the United States, decorations have also been sued several times for including religious themes, which the prosecution argued was a government endorsement of a particular religion and a violation of freedom of worship.

Christmas rings:

Western countries during the Christmas season to hang in front of the house with the decorations, usually with green branches or canes (pine hair, pine needles, etc.) and silver metal and gold bells with red ribbons. The main colors of green, white, yellow and red represent joy and festivity, and it says MERRY CHRISMAS, or simply X'mas.