Happy Christmas Merry Christmas

The first recorded date of Christmas being celebrated on December 25th was in 336, during the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine,

although December 25th (or late afternoon /evening of December 24th is the date when most people celebrated Christmas.

Christmas is celebrated to remember the birth of the Jesus Christ,who Christians believe in the

Son of God.

The celebrations of custom associated in various countries with Christmas have a mix of

pre-Christians and secular themes and origins. Popular modern customs of the holiday

include gift giving,completing an Advent calendar (period of four Sundays and weeks),Christmas

music and caroling,lighting a christingle viewing a nativity play,an exchange of Christmas

cards,Church Services,a special meal and pulling Christmas Crackers and the display of various

Christmas decorations including Christmas tree.

In additional,several closely related and often interchangeable figures,known as Santa Claus, father

Christmas,Saint Nicholas are associated with bringing gifts to children during the Christmas season

and have their own body of traditions. Gifts giving and many other aspects of the Christmas Fest

involve heightened economic activity, the holiday has became a significant event and a key sales

period for retailers and businesses. The economic impact of Christmas has grown steadily over

the past few countries in many regions of the world.

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Christmas tree

A Christmas tree is decorate,usually an evergreen,conifer,such as a spruce pine fir,bells,candy,wafers

or an artificial tree of similar appearance,associated with the celebration of Christmas,originating

on Northern Europe.The custom was developed in medieval Livonia and in early modern Germany

where protestant Germans brought decorated trees into their homes. It acquired popularity beyond the Lutheran areas of Germany and the Baltic countries during the second half of 19th century,at first

among the upper classes.

The tree was traditionally decorated with roses made of colored paper,apples,wafers,tinsel,

sweetmeat etc. In the 18th century it began to be illuminated by candles,which were

ultimately replaced by Christmas lights after the Advent of electrification.

today,there is a wide variety of traditional and modern ornaments,such as garlands,baubles,

tinsel and some candy canes. An angel or star might be placed at the top of the tree to represent the

angel Gabriel or the star of Bethlehem, respectively, from the Natively. Edible items such as

gingerbread,chocolate and other sweets are also popular and are tied to hung from the tree's branches

with ribbons. Modern Christmas trees originated during the Renaissance in early modern Germany.

It's 16th century origins are sometimes associated with protestant Christian reformer Martin Luther,who is said to have first added lighted Candles to an evergreen tree.

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Christmas Bells

Bells are rung to announce the union of a man and a woman. They are rung during Christmas to announce the arrival of the season,to proclaim the birth of Jesus Christ. Ringing the bells can be tracked back to (pagan) winter celebrations.

During those times,noisemakers were used to scare away evil spirits in the night.Some Churches in UK,it is traditional that the largest bell in the church is rung four times in an hour before the midnight all the bells are rung in celebrations. In catholic Church,Christmas and Easter are the only times that Mass(Jesus Christ)is allowed to be held at midnight. It's traditional that at both midnight Masses,the church and altar bells too rung while the priest says "Gloria".

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Christmas candles

There are many different reasons, why candles are associated with Christmas.Although no one knows when they first became connected,One of the earliest records of

candles being used at Christmas is from the middle ages,where a large candle was used to represent the star of Bethlehem.

Mass(Jesus Christ) is sometimes called 'The light of the World' by Christians. This have started the custom of the Advent.

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Christmas Cake

Christmas Cake is an English tradition that began as plum porridge. People ate the porridge on Christmas Eve,using it to line their stomachs after a day of fasting soon dried fruits, spices and some honey were added to the porridge mixture and eventually it turned into Christmas pudding.The rich fruit cake is also associated with Christmas were originally. twelfth
cake(were ate on parties),it then became fashionable to have large decorations on over the cakes. Twelfth cake also had a bean on pea cooked in them and the finder of the bean and pea became the King or Queen of the twelfth Night Party.

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Christmas Candy

The first documented example of the use of Candy Canes to celebrate Christmas Occurred in 1847, when August Irmgard, a German Swedish immigrant from Wooster,Ohio decorated the Christmas tree with paper ornaments and candy canes.The solid white sugar canes were on Christmas cards in early 1900's. Around 1920, Bob Mc Cormack from Georgia, in USA, started making canes for his friends and family. They became more and more popular and he started his own business. His business name is Bob's candies.

The white of the candy cane can represents the purity of Mass(Jesus Christ) and the red strips are for the blood he shed he he died on the cross, peppermint flavor can reflects on hyssop plant that was used for purifying in the Bible. However all of these meanings were added in

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Christmas Eve

is the evening before Christmas Day, the fest(festival) commemorating the birth of the Jesus Christ. Christmas Day is observed around the world and Christmas Eve is widely observed as a full holiday of happiness and love or partial holiday in anticipation of Christmas Day. Together both days considered one of the most culturally significant celebrations in Christendom and western society. Christmas Eve has many of it's own customs and traditions, the most widely Practised one of the skill exists today is going to a Midnight Mass Church Service.

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Christmas Pudding

Christmas Pudding is a type of pudding traditionally served as a part of the Christmas Dinner in UK,and in other countries where it has been brought by British and Irish immigrants. It has it's origins in medieval England, sometimes known as a Plum Pudding. This can also refer to other kinds of boiled pudding involving dried fruit. Despite the name "Plum Pudding", it contains no actual plums due to the "Pre-Victorian", use of the word "Plums" as a term for Raisin. Pudding is traditionally composed o thirteen ingredients, symbolizing Jesus and the twelfth Apostles, including many dried fruits held together by eggs and suet, sometimes moistened by treacle or molasses, flavored by cinnamon, nutmeg etc. Pudding is usually aged for a month or more, even a year. The high alcohol content of the pudding prevents it from spoiling during this time. Pudding is a type of food that can be either a dessert or a savory dish that is part of the main meal.

The modern usage of the word Pudding denote primarily desserts has evolved over time from the originally almost exclusive use of the term to describe savory dishes, specially those created using a process similar to that used for sausages, in which meat and other ingredients in mostly liquid form are encased and then steamed or boiled to set the contents. Black pudding, Yorkshire pudding, and haggis survive from this tradition. In the United States and some parts of Canada, pudding characteristically denotes a sweet-milk based dessert similar in consistency to egg-based custards, instant mousse, often commercially set using cornstarch, gelatin or similar collagen agent such as the "Jell-O" brand line of products.