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Interesting facts about Christmas

Every year on December 25 we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, this day is known as Christmas Day. The word Christmas or ‘Mass of Christ’ originally comes from the old English name Cristes Maedde. It was in 440 AD when the Christian Church set a date of celebration for December 25.

It is a special moment for the family. Many people who live in different towns, cities, or even countries will make the trip home to spend the holiday season with their family.

On Christmas Day they will have a family reunion and a great dinner consisting of foods such as turkey, Brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing, and cranberry sauce.

Eating turkey on Christmas Day seems to date back to Tudor times and to Henry VIII; He was the first man to eat turkey that day.

Sending Christmas cards is a big part of Christmas, with over a billion cards sent in the UK alone. There are many genres of cards ranging from relationship cards for mom, dad, brother, sister, etc. even the funniest kind for friends and family who enjoy a good laugh.

People shopping for mommy cards often go for the more traditional Christmas card with long and meaningful lengths, while people shopping for daddy cards tend to go for humor.

The rush to buy cards and gifts usually starts in late November, early December. Shopping centers are so busy that it is sometimes impossible to move. The lines at the stores get longer and longer, and sometimes a half-hour shopping trip can easily turn into half a day.

In recent years, with the development of the internet and internet retail businesses, it has never been easier to shop for your Christmas cards and gifts online, which means avoiding busy crowds on the main street.

We typically start sending out cards in early December and this continues through the 25th. By mid-December, you will usually find that most homes will be decorated with a Christmas tree, colored lights, and hanging ornaments. foil or foil around the living room.

Others go a step further by decorating garden trees and exterior walls with colored electric flashing lights and Christmas characters like Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extremely popular in the US and has been for quite some time.

Santa Claus also plays an important role at Christmas; photos are hung in the streets, he is on television and the kids can even go and sit on his lap at their local mall and tell him the gifts they would like. But where did it come from? Well, Father Christmas or ‘Santa Claus’ is based on a real person, Saint Nicholas.

It is believed that back in the 4th century AD, Nicholas was a very shy Christian leader from Myra and decided that he wanted to help the poor by giving them money, but without their knowledge.

It is said that one day he climbed on the roof of a house and dropped a wallet full of money down the chimney that landed on a stocking that a girl had hung to dry by the fire, which is where the tradition of Santa Claus going down the of the fireplace and putting presents in the children’s stockings.

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