What is the Three Kings Day in Germany?

Should the German name of Three Kings Day be Dreik? Nigstag, or Heilige Drei Koenige, 65438+1October 6. This is a traditional Catholic festival.

Every year, 65438+10.6 has three holidays (Heiligdre K? Nige), also known as Three Kings Day, is a legal holiday in Bavaria, Bavaria and Saxony-anhalt.

Three festivals are the first religious festival after entering the New Year. According to legend, after the birth of Jesus, saints from the East, as messengers of light, came to this dark world with three gifts: gold, frankincense and miro, to visit the newborn human beings and hope for Jesus. Although the Bible did not specify the number of saints, it was later determined that there were three, namely Caspar, Melchior and balthasar, representing three skin colors, three continents and three age groups. And "Wang" (k? The word nig) has no special status later, and saints from the East did not regard it as "king".

In these three festivals, Christmas carolers sent by bishops will carry lanterns from house to house and draw symbols of blessing on doorframes with chalk. At the beginning of each year, a group of "mysterious" symbols composed of letters and numbers can be seen on the lintels of many buildings in southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland (see photo), which is a tradition of three festivals. This set of symbols is centered on C+M+B, and the numbers before and after represent the year. C, M and B are Latin "Christus mansionem benedicat", which means "Jesus bless this family". There is also a folk saying that this is the abbreviation of the names of three saints (Caspar, Melchior and balthasar). The three "plus signs" in the middle of the letters actually represent the cross, which means the trinity of the father, the son and the holy spirit here.

In addition to the three federal states in Germany, the three holidays are also legal holidays in Austria, some Swiss states, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Croatia, Spain and other countries.