【正文】 everyone,today my topic is christmas mainly from three aspects。圣誕老人的另一個名字是圣誕老人。因此，當孩子上床睡覺，那天晚上，他們就掛上他們的襪子，并在圣誕節(jié)早晨醒來發(fā)現(xiàn)他們裝滿禮物。他們認為他是一個快樂長長的白胡子和一個長長的紅色長袍的老人。他總是愿意幫助窮人，常常送禮物給他們。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 the Druidic sacrificial cult.[9] Presents In preChristian Rome, the emperors pelled their most despised citizens to bring offerings and gifts during the Saturnalia(in December)and Kalends(in January).Later, this ritual expanded to include giftgiving among the general Catholic Church gave this custom a Christian flavor by rerooting it in the supposed giftgiving of Saint Nicholas(see below).[10]Christmas(Christmas)is a traditional church calendar of festivals, it is the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus , most of the first Christian church in the city on December 24 at the Christmas Eve worship, and then on December 25 to celebrate Christmas, while another major branch of the Christian Orthodox Christmas celebrations in the annual January to the Christian Gospel, Jesus is the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem by the Holy Spirit flu pregnant after giving birth, Mary and her husband Joseph to Rome was being registered on the was born in the Jewish prophecy appears to be believers in the Messiah will e to the realization of plans, because Bethlehem is David Joseph ancestral family is also the Western world, as well as many other areas of public holidays, for example: in Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and , the exact date of birth of Jesus there is a Central Western countries pegged at home during Christmas with decorations, usually green foliage or rattan(松毛, pine needles, etc.)and silver metals and gold bell supported red ribbon colors green, white, yellow, red representatives joyful, reading MERRY CHRISMAS or initials X39。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。s greetings with many others had a daunting 1843, British businessman Sir Henry Cole asked artist John Calcott Horsley to print some Christmas thousand cards were printed in black and white and then colored by cards, which depicted a happy family raising a toast to the recipient, were criticized for promoting 1851 Richard Pease, a variety store owner, missioned the first printed Christmas card in the printers Charles Goodall amp。s white color symbolized purity, while the red stripes indicated is similar to hyssop, the Middle Eastern mint mentioned in the Cards 圣誕賀卡The custom of sending Christmas cards started in Victorian , some adults had written Christmas letters took time to write。s Day.”The custom of the Yule log has been noted in France and Italy as far back as the later spread throughout Christmas Eve an enormous log would be cut and p