【正文】 半》（itcametbemidnightclear）、《美哉小城，小伯利恒》（olittletownofbethlehem）、《牧人聞信》（whileshepherdswatchedtheirflocks）、《遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)在馬槽里》（awayinthemanger）、《榮耀天軍》（angels，fromtherealmsofglory）、《聽啊，天使唱高聲》（hark！theheraldangelssing）、《圣誕鐘聲》（iheardthebellsonchristmasday）、等等其中以《平安夜》（silentnight）最為有名。圣誕襪：最早以前是一對(duì)紅色的大襪子，多大都可以，因?yàn)槭フQ襪是要用來(lái)裝禮物的，小朋友最喜歡的東西，晚上他們會(huì)將自己的襪子掛在床邊，等待第二天早上的收禮。除崇拜儀式外，還演出圣誕劇，表演耶穌降生的故事。荷蘭兒童會(huì)把他們的木屐留在壁爐邊，Sinterklaas就留些小禮物獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)那些好孩子。據(jù)說(shuō)他是一個(gè)好心人，尤其是對(duì)小孩子。正是這幅版畫，使圣誕樹風(fēng)俗在英格蘭流行開來(lái)。中世紀(jì)，一部流行的宗教劇就描述過(guò)亞當(dāng)和夏娃被趕出伊甸園的故事。（譯者注：早期Asatru異教的冬至假日Yule被基督徒吸收，今天圣誕節(jié)一詞在斯堪的納維亞語(yǔ)里依然是異教的jul或yule。（譯者注：Wisemen，也作Magi、東方三博士等）但人們的一些慶祝方式其實(shí)和基督誕生沒(méi)有任何關(guān)系。s birth and scenes of the birth with figures of shepherds, the Wise Men, and animals surrounding the baby some of the ways people celebrate Christmas have nothing to do with Christ39。s death that Christians even thought about celebrating his one knows the exact date of his is believed that December the 25th was chosen to turn people away from celebrating other holidays in this time of the , was the Romans holiday that they celebrated in was a time of feasting and , in northern Europe there was a holiday known as celebrated this holiday by making great then would dance around the fires, yelling for the winter to time, Christmas took the place of these people kept some of the old customssuch as burning a Yule log and having feasts and word Yule is still used as a name for the Christmas time went on, new customs crept into was the Christmas tree, which was started in the Germans settled in new lands they brought with them this 16thcentury Germany fir trees were decorated, both indoors and out, with apples, roses, gilded candies, and colored the Middle Ages, a popular religous play depicted the story of Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of fir tree hung with apples was used to symbolize the Garden of Eden — the Paradise play ended with the prophecy of a saviour ing, and so was often performed during the Advent is held that Protestant reformer Martin Luther first adorned trees with ing home one December evening, the beauty of the stars shining through the branches of a fir inspired him to recreate the effect by placing candles on the branches of a small fir tree inside his homeThe Christmas Tree was brought to England by Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert from his native famous Illustrated News etching in 1848, featuring the Royal Family of Victoria, Albert and their children gathered around a Christmas tree in Windsor Castle, popularized the tree throughout Victorian to America by the Pennsylvania Germans, in the late 19th but not least is Saint long time ago, a bishop named Nicholas lived in what is now the country of one knows much about are stories that he often helped chil