Christmas is a holiday in western countries, so most countries have the custom of celebrating Christmas, such as Italy, Britain, Sweden, France, Denmark and so on. The development of Christmas is from1early to mid-9th century, and the whole United States and Europe began to celebrate Christmas. At the same time, it gradually derived the corresponding Christmas culture.

1. Play dead horses and sing hymns in Wales, England.

An ancient custom in Wales is to dress up as a dead horse and sing hymns in the form of winter solstice. This is a disguised continuation of pagan festivals before Christmas.

People surround the skull of a dead horse dressed in dead horse clothes, and then a group of people sing hymns from house to house, hoping to get some food and drinks as gifts and pray for good luck. This is not a strange overseas word, but a recorded story from a widely sung hymn. We sang Christmas toast song.

2. Christmas Woodenhead in Catalonia, Spain

In Catalonia, every family has a small wooden head with a little red riding hood, February 8, 65438. Every host will leave some food for little Woodenhead at dinner and wrap a blanket around Woodenhead to prevent him from starving and freezing.

Then, when the children are not looking, hide the Christmas presents under the blanket. In any case, the wooden head is hollow, and children will think that the gift is real and the wooden head is poop.

3. Hide brooms on Christmas Eve in Norway

Every year, Norwegians take great pains to hide all their brooms on Christmas Eve. Many big men even took out their shotguns and fired several shots into the air as a warning, which was regarded as a pagan custom. There is also an allusion: In local legends, witches and other demons will come and go on Christmas Eve, and brooms are what witches need to walk in rivers and lakes.

4. Germany

The origin of the Christmas tree. A religious person will have a beautiful Christmas tree and many kinds of Christmas cakes at home.

5. Australia

Married women pour molten tin into cold water at Christmas, and predict the future husband's appearance by observing the shape of tin, whether he is tall, short, fat or thin.

6. Czech Republic

Unmarried Czech girls leave peeled apples at Christmas. Christmas customs and etiquette they think that by doing so, they can see the first letter from their future husbands.

2. Christmas is the Spanish New Year?

Christmas is a religious holiday, not a national holiday, but a holiday in many western countries. Countries that regard Christmas as a legal holiday include Spain, Germany, Greece, Russia, Austria, Italy, Britain, Slovenia, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Finland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Ireland, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Bulgaria, Bolivia and other European countries. African countries such as Nigeria and South Africa.

3. Spanish Christmas cake

Pasteur cake is a traditional cake in the Basque country on the border between Spain and France. Legend has it that an old couple opened a bar in the Basque country. Not only drinking water and wine are provided. Snacks are also provided to guests. The old couple's son made a thick cheesecake based on the traditional Basque cake and local cheese, and combined them.

4. Christmas greetings from Spain

Christmas holiday in Spain: February 23rd-10/October 6th, 65438+. It is stipulated that the 24th is half a day, the 25th is all day, the 30th is 3 1, and the 60th is all day. But keep it for a week, from the 20th to the 27th. Some companies have a holiday from 24th to 28th, go to work on 29th, and then from 30th to 7th.

5. Is there Christmas in Spain?

Christmas, Three Kings Day, Holy Week and Carnival are traditional festivals celebrated all over Spain.

I heard that there are many holidays in Spain. Sometimes, although it's not a weekend, suddenly the street is empty. It turns out that the Spaniards are on vacation again. Recently, I learned from a Spanish Chinese website of mercachina that dates with red letters on calendars and monthly calendars are Spanish festivals. There are national holidays such as National Day and Labor Day, as well as religious holidays, the biggest of which are Christmas and Easter. Besides these, different provinces in Spain have provincial holidays, and different cities have municipal holidays. In addition, Spanish law stipulates that all workers who sign contracts must be given 30 days paid vacation and 14 times annual salary. In other words, in addition to the holidays on the calendar, there are 30 days of holidays. However, these festivals have not yet satisfied the Spanish people's desire for vacation. In addition to various legal holidays, there is also a bridge holiday. For example, one day is New Year, and this day is National Day, which is a national holiday. However, sometimes, this day happens to be linked with another day on Saturday. The Spanish just call this day to start another day together, so that they can rest for four days in a row. This every other day is called bridge holiday. This so-called bridge holiday is not a legal holiday. It depends on the company. If the company doesn't cross the bridge, employees can only go to work. But some employees will take the way of grinding migrant workers to resist. Over time, the boss can only issue bridge leave for employees to rest. The reporter counted the sum of all kinds of holidays of Spaniards, and there are about four months of holidays in a year (including Saturday and Sunday).

Happy New Year, Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday and Happy Holidays. Achievement.