Merry Christmas!!!

An important Christian festival commemorating the birth of Jesus. It is also called Jesus Christmas, the Nativity Day, and the Catholic Church is also called Jesus Christmas. The date of Jesus’ birth is not recorded in the Bible. In 336 AD, the Roman Church began to celebrate this festival on December 25. December 25 was originally the birthday of the sun god stipulated by the Roman Empire. Some people think that the reason why they choose this day to celebrate Christmas is that Christians believe that Jesus is just and eternal sun. After the middle of the 5th century, Christmas, as an important festival, became the tradition of the church and gradually spread in the Eastern and Western churches. Due to different calendars and other reasons, the specific dates and forms of activities held by different sects are also different. The spread of Christmas customs to Asia was mainly in the middle of the 19th century. Japan and South Korea were all affected by Christmas culture. Nowadays, it has become a common custom in the West to give gifts to each other, hold feasts, and add a festive atmosphere with Santa Claus and Christmas trees. Christmas has also become a public holiday in the western world and many other regions.

Festival decorations

Christmas decorations include: Christmas socks, which used to be a pair of large red socks, regardless of size. Because Christmas socks are used to hold gifts, they are children’s favorite things. At night, they will hang their socks beside the bed and wait for the next morning to receive gifts; Christmas hat is a red hat. It is said that in addition to sleeping soundly and warm at night, you will find some gifts from your beloved in the hat the next day; Christmas tree, usually people bring an evergreen plant (such as pine) into the house or put it outdoors before and after Christmas, decorate it with Christmas lights and colorful ornaments, and place an angel or star on the top of the tree. The Christmas tree originated in Germany; Christmas ring, an ornament hung at the door of the home during Christmas in western countries, usually uses green branches and leaves or vines (pine wool, pine needles, etc.), silver metal and gold bells with red ribbons to form the main color, and green, white, yellow and red represent joy and joy. The words MERRY CHRISTMAS or X’mas are also written on it. The Christmas ring first appeared in Finland.

Character image
The character image of Christmas mainly refers to Santa Claus, whose prototype is Saint Nicholas, the bishop who lived in Mira City (today’s Türkiye) in the 4th century AD. He has done a lot of charity work in his life and likes to help the poor secretly. Santa Claus is his nickname, which comes from the story that he secretly gave money to help three girls. Nicholas was venerated as a saint after his death. The image of Santa Claus is a white bearded old man wearing a red robe and a red hat. Every Christmas he drives a sleigh pulled by deer from the north, enters each house from the chimney, and puts Christmas gifts in socks to hang on the children’s bedside or in front of the stove.