Yearly on the 25th December we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, this day is known as Christmas Day. The word Christmas or ‘Christ’s Mass’ initially comes from the old English name Cristes Maedde. It was in AD440 that the Christian Church fixed a celebration date of December 25th.
It is a particular time for family. Many individuals living in different towns, cities or even international locations will make the journey back residence to spend the festive season with their family.
On Christmas Day they will have a household gathering and a huge dinner consisting of meals similar to turkey, brussell sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce.
Apparently eating turkey on Christmas Day dates back to the Tudor instances and Henry VIII – he was the primary man to eat turkey on this day.
Sending Christmas cards is a huge part of Christmas, with more than a billion cards being sent in the UK alone. There are many genres of cards starting from Relation cards for Mum, Dad, Brother Sister and so on to the more humorous type for friends and kin who enjoy an excellent laugh.
Folks buying cards for Mum often look for the more traditional Christmas card with lengthy, meaningful versus whereas people looking for Dad cards tend to go for Humour.
The frenzy for buying cards and presents typically starts at the end of November, beginning of December. Shopping centres change into so busy it’s typically not possible to move! Queues in shops turn into longer and longer and typically a half hour shopping trip can simply turn into half a day.
Lately with the development of the internet and internet retail firms it has by no means been easier to shop online for your Christmas cards and items which means avoiding the busying crowds within the high street.
We generally start sending cards originally of December and this continues proper up until the 25th. By mid-December you will normally discover most homes will be decorated with a Christmas tree, colourful lights and paper or foil hanging decorations around the living room.
Others take things one step further by decorating garden trees and exterior walls with coloured electric flashing lights and Christmas characters such as Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extraordinarily widespread in the USA and has been for quite some time.
Santa Claus additionally plays a serious part in Christmas; pictures are hung up in the streets, he is on the television and children may even go and sit on his lap at your local shopping centre and inform him the presents they might like. However where did he come from? Well, Father Christmas or ‘Santa Claus‘ is predicated on a real person, St Nicholas.
It’s believed that back in the 4th Century AD, Nicholas was very shy Christian leader from Myra and determined he wished to help the poor individuals by giving them money however without them knowing.
It is said that someday he climbed the roof of a house and dropped a handbag full of money down the chimney which landed in a stocking that a girl had hung as much as dry by the fire, which is where the tradition of Santa coming down the chimney and placing items into children’s stockings comes from.
