On December 25 of each year we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, this day is known as Christmas. The word Christmas or ‘Christ Mass’ originally comes from the old English name Cristes Maedde. It was in the year 440 AD that the Christian Church set December 25 as the date of celebration.
It is a special moment for the family. Many people living in different towns, cities, or even countries will make the journey back home to spend the festive season with their families.
On Christmas day they will have a family gathering and a big dinner consisting of items like turkey, Brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing, and cranberry sauce.
Apparently eating turkey on Christmas Day dates back to Tudor times and Henry VIII – he was the first man to eat turkey on this day.
Sending Christmas cards is a big part of Christmas, with over a billion cards sent out in the UK alone. There are many genres of cards ranging from relationship cards for mom, dad, brother, sister, etc. to the more humorous type for friends and family who enjoy a good laugh.
People shopping for cards for mom are often looking for the most traditional, lengthy, and meaningful Christmas card, while people shopping for cards for dad tend to go for the humorous one.
The rush to buy cards and gifts usually starts at the end of November, beginning of December. Malls are so busy sometimes it’s impossible to move! The queues at the stores are getting longer and sometimes a half hour shopping trip can easily turn into half a day.
In recent years, with the development of the Internet and Internet retail companies, it has never been easier to buy your Christmas cards and gifts online, which means avoiding the busy crowds on the high street.
We usually start sending out cards in early December and this continues through the 25th. By mid-December you will usually find that most homes will be decorated with a Christmas tree, fairy lights and hanging paper or aluminum foil around the living room.
Others go a step further and decorate garden trees and exterior walls with colored electric flashing lights and Christmas characters like Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extremely popular in the US and has been for quite some time.
Santa Claus also plays an important role in Christmas; pictures are posted on the streets, he’s on TV, and kids can even go and sit on his lap at their local mall and tell him what gifts they’d like. But where did he come from? Well, Santa Claus or ‘Santa Claus’ is based on a real person, Saint Nicholas.
It is believed that around the 4th century AD, Nicholas was a very timid Christian leader from Myra and decided that he wanted to help the poor by giving them money but without knowing them.
It is said that one day he climbed to the roof of a house and threw a bag full of money down the chimney that landed in a stocking that a girl had hung to dry by the fire, which is where the tradition of Santa coming down the hill takes place. fireplace. fireplace and putting gifts in the children’s stockings comes.