Popular Christmas Traditions that We cannot Do Without!

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Christmas Traditions
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Christmas Bells

• A signal for the 1st service of the day
• One myth is,
• Jesus was born at midnight
• So, a lot of Churches have midnight service on
  Christmas Eve

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Boxing Day

• The day after Christmas
• In past gifts were put in boxes gave them to
  servants
• Now horse racing football matches are played on
  this day
• If Christmas falls on Saturday, this day is on
  December 27

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• Candles were placed in the window to guide the
  Christ Child as he wandered on Christmas Eve
• Main use - Carols by Candlelight Services in
  church
• People enjoy Christmas dinner with a couple of
  candles
• Used in the Jewish Festival of light-Hanukkah
• Used in the modern winter festival Kwanzaa a
  candle holder holds 7 candles

Christmas Candles
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Candy Canes

• Straight White Sugar Stick
• J for Jesus
• White Cane the purity of Jesus Christ
• Red Stripes the blood he shed when he died on
  the cross
• The peppermint flavor represents the hyssop plant
  used for purifying the Bible

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Christmas Cards

• Started by Sir Henry Cole John Horsley
• Exchanged during the weeks before Christmas Day
• Cards have all sorts of pictures on them
• Show Santa Claus, Christmas wishes, snowmen,
  Christmas trees etc.

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Christmas Trees

• Decoration of spruce, pine or fir trees as
  Christmas Tree
• Traditionally decorated with apples, nuts or
  other foods
• Today, adorn with garland, tinsel, candy canes
  etc.
• A star on top of the tree represents the angel
  Gabriel or star of the Bethlehem from the
  Nativity

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Christmas Pudding

• Traditional end to the British Christmas dinner
• Second name - Plum Pudding
• Composition of dried fruits, eggs, cinnamon,
  nutmeg, cloves, ginger, suet etc.
• Moistened with brandy other alcohol

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Christmas Presents

• Santa Claus St.Nicholas arethe best known
  Christmas gift bringer
• In Europe, presents are left in shoes or boots
  put out by the children
• In the UK, presents left in stockings, hanging by
  a fire place
• Presents for friends families is left under
  Chrsitmas Tree
• Opened on Christmas day morning with all the
  family together
• Secret Sants - 1 popular way of giving presents
  in groups like clubs, school classes workplaces

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Christmas Eve

• It is a Midnight Mass Church Service
• People fast during Christmas Eve
• Main Christmas meal is eaten after the Midnight
  Mass Service
• People exchange their presents
• Busiest day of the year for Santa when he has to
  travel over 220million miles
• Christmas Tree is brought into the house
  decorated

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Other Traditions

• Chrismons
• Christmas Carols
• Christingles
• Christmas Crakers
• The Colors of Christmas
• The Christmas Pickle
• Snow Ice
• Star of Bethlehem

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