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’ originally 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 special time for family. Many individuals dwelling in several towns, cities and even nations will make the journey back residence to spend the festive season with their family.
On Christmas Day they will have a family gathering and an enormous dinner consisting of meals corresponding 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 first man to eat turkey on this day.
Sending Christmas cards is a huge part of Christmas, with more than a billion cards being sent within the UK alone. There are many genres of cards starting from Relation cards for Mum, Dad, Brother Sister and so forth to the more humorous type for friends and relatives who enjoy a superb laugh.
Individuals shopping for cards for Mum often look for the more traditional Christmas card with prolonged, significant versus whereas folks looking for Dad cards are inclined to go for Humour.
The rush for buying cards and presents usually starts on the finish of November, beginning of December. Shopping centres change into so busy it’s typically inconceivable to move! Queues in shops grow to be longer and longer and generally a half hour shopping journey can simply turn into half a day.
Lately with the development of the internet and internet retail companies it has never been simpler to shop on-line to your Christmas cards and presents which means avoiding the busying crowds in the high street.
We typically start sending cards in the beginning of December and this continues proper up till the 25th. By mid-December you will often find most properties will be decorated with a Christmas tree, colourful lights and paper or foil hanging decorations around the dwelling room.
Others take things one step additional by decorating backyard bushes and exterior partitions with coloured electric flashing lights and Christmas characters resembling Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extraordinarily common within the USA and has been for quite some time.
Santa Claus also plays a major part in Christmas; footage are hung up within the streets, he is on the television and children can even go and sit on his lap at your native shopping centre and tell him the presents they would like. However where did he come from? Well, Father Christmas or ‘Santa Claus‘ is based on a real individual, St Nicholas.
It is believed that back in the 4th Century AD, Nicholas was very shy Christian leader from Myra and determined he wished to assist the poor individuals by giving them money however without them knowing.
It’s said that someday he climbed the roof of a house and dropped a purse full of cash down the chimney which landed in a stocking that a girl had hung as much as dry by the fire, which is the place the tradition of Santa coming down the chimney and placing items into children’s stockings comes from.