When is Christmas When is Christmas?

Christmas is on December 25 (Gregorian calendar).

Christmas cards are popular as Christmas gifts in the United States and Europe, and many families bring their annual family photos or family news with them, which generally include the strengths and strengths of family members in the past year.

Sending Christmas cards on Christmas Day is not only to express the joy of celebrating Christmas, but also to wish blessings to relatives and friends to express their feelings of longing. Especially for relatives and friends in loneliness, it is more kind care and comfort.

Christmas decorations include:

1. Christmas stockings, the earliest used to be a pair of big red socks, the size is not limited. Because Christmas stockings are meant to be used for gifts, they are children's favorite items, and they hang their socks next to their beds at night and wait for them to be received the next morning.

2. The Holy Void birthday hat is a red hat, it is said that in addition to sleeping peacefully and a little warmer at night, you will also find more gifts from your loved ones in the hat the next day.

3. Christmas tree, usually people get an evergreen plant (such as a pine tree) into the house or put it outdoors before and after Christmas, decorate it with Christmas lights and colorful decorations, and put an angel or star on the top of the tree, Christmas trees originated in Germany.

4. Christmas ring, the decorations hung at the door of the house during Christmas in Western countries, usually with green branches and leaves or rattan (pine hair, pine needles, etc.) and silver metal and gold bells with red ribbons to form the main color, with green, white, yellow, red four color difference nuclear stupid on behalf of joy and festivity, and Merry Christmas or abbreviated as X'The word mas, the Christmas ring first appeared in Finland.

Christmas meals include turkey, trunk cake, almond pudding, gingerbread, seafood, glogi, beach feast, polenta and more.

In general, gifts can be given from the night of Christmas Eve until the end of Christmas.

Christmas Eve is also considered to be a time for Santa Claus and other similar figures in the region to go around and deliver gifts to good children. In Italy, for example, gifts are opened on Christmas Eve, while in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Portugal and Poland, Christmas gifts are usually opened on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning.

In most parts of Germany, Christmas presents are opened on Christmas Eve (bescherung in German).

Related Notes:

Christmas gifts refer to gifts for Christmas Day. At Christmas in the West, children can receive gifts from "Santa Claus", but usually by their own family.

Christmas Gift (Christmas Gift) According to the Bible, saints from the East gave gifts to children on the occasion of the birth of Jesus, which is the origin of Santa's custom of giving gifts to children. British children put stockings by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, believing that Santa Claus would come down from the big chimney at night and bring them gifts full of socks. The children of France put their shoes at the door and asked the Holy Child to put the gifts inside the shoes when he came.