【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 is day, many go to church, where they take part in special religious the christmas season, they also exchange gifts and decorate their homes with holly, mistletoe, and christmas word christmas es from cristes maesse, an early english phrase that means mass of story of christmas es chiefly from the gospels of saint luke and saint matthew in the new history of christmas dates back over 4000 of our christmas traditions were celebrated centuries before the christ child was 12 days of christmas, the bright fires, the yule log, the giving of gifts, carnivals(parades)with floats, carolers who sing while going from house to house, the holiday feasts, and the church processions can all be traced back to the early of these traditions began with the mesopotamian celebration of new mesopotamians believed in many gods, and as their chief year as winter arrived it was believed that marduk would do battle with the monsters of assist marduk in his struggle the mesopotamians held a festival for the new was zagmuk, the new year180。s festival that lasted for 12 persians and the babylonians celebrated a similar festival called the of that celebration included the exchanging of places, the slaves would bee the masters and the masters were to ancient greeks held a festival similar to that of the zagmuk/sacaea festivals to assist their god kronos who would battle the god zeus and his roman180。s celebrated their god festival was called saturnalia which began the middle of december and ended january cr第三篇：關于圣誕節(jié)的英文介紹Do you know? Origin of Chdstmas Christmas is a religious is the day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus are special christmas services in christian churches all over the many of the festivities of christmas do not have anything to do with gifts and sending christmas cards are the modern ways of celebrating the christmas in the people all over the world, Christmas is just a festival of giving and receiving in some European countries, Father Christmas, or Saint Claus, es into houses in the night and leaves gifts for the Nicholas is represented as a kindly man with a red cloak and long white gifts Most children believe that Santa Claus lives at the North year he lists the names of children, both those who have been good and those who have been decides what presents to give to the good child hung a stocking, or sock, over the entered down the chimney and left candy and presents inside the socks for the the morning of Christmas child can39。t wait to open his or her eyes to see what Santa has left in the Cards Another important custom of Christmas is to send and receive Christmas cards, which are meant to help express the sentiment of the begin sending Christmas cards early in December to friends, acquaintances, and post office advises customers to mail early in the season and avoid the Christmas people heed the advice。others wait until the last minute and then are upset when their loved ones have not received the greeting card or the present which they sent。The Origins of Christmas Customs Trees Just as early Christians recruited Roman pagans by associating Christmas with the Saturnalia, so too worshippers of the Asheira cult and its offshoots were recruited by the Church sanctioning “Christmas Trees”.[7] Pagans had long worshipped trees in the forest, or brought them into their homes and decorated them, and this observance was adopted and painted with a Christian veneer by the Norse mythology recounts how the god Balder was killed using a mistletoe arrow by his rival god Hoder while fighting for the female rituals use mistletoe to poison their human sacrificial victim.[8] The Christian custom of “kissing under the mistletoe” is a later synthesis of the sexual license of Saturnalia with t