Yearly on the twenty fifth 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’s a particular time for family. Many individuals living in numerous towns, cities and even countries will make the journey back dwelling to spend the festive season with their family.
On Christmas Day they will have a household gathering and a huge dinner consisting of food comparable to turkey, brussell sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce.
Apparently consuming turkey on Christmas Day dates back to the Tudor occasions and Henry VIII – he was the first man to eat turkey on this day.
Sending Christmas cards is a large part of Christmas, with more than a billion cards being despatched within the UK alone. There are lots of genres of cards ranging from Relation cards for Mum, Dad, Brother Sister and so on to the more humorous type for friends and relations who enjoy a very good laugh.
Individuals buying cards for Mum usually look for the more traditional Christmas card with lengthy, meaningful versus whereas individuals looking for Dad cards tend to go for Humour.
The push for getting cards and presents generally starts on the finish of November, starting of December. Shopping centres turn into so busy it’s sometimes impossible 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 companies it has by no means been easier to shop online to your Christmas cards and presents which means avoiding the busying crowds in the high street.
We typically start sending cards originally of December and this continues right up until the 25th. By mid-December you will often discover most houses will be decorated with a Christmas tree, colourful lights and paper or foil hanging decorations around the residing room.
Others take things one step additional by decorating backyard timber and external walls with coloured electric flashing lights and Christmas characters such as Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extraordinarily popular in the USA and has been for quite some time.
Santa Claus also performs a serious part in Christmas; pictures are hung up within the streets, he is on the television and children can even go and sit on his lap at your local shopping centre and tell him the presents they’d like. However the place did he come from? Well, Father Christmas or ‘Santa Claus‘ is predicated on a real individual, St Nicholas.
It’s believed that back in the 4th Century AD, Nicholas was very shy Christian leader from Myra and decided he wanted to assist the poor people by giving them cash but without them knowing.
It is said that one day 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 putting presents into children’s stockings comes from.
