In many countries in Europe and America, people attach great importance to this festival and associate it with the New Year. The excitement and solemnity of the celebration greatly surpassed the New Year and became a national festival.
The saying of eating apples on Christmas Eve
1, a student from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It was probably Guangzhou or Xiamen in the early 1980s. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, there were not many overseas students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and there were not many social materials in China. Some of them have the habit of Christmas, but they don't have a turkey or a Christmas dinner. They can't buy anything with money. In February 65438, only apples were sold in the market, so they ate apples to celebrate, which meant that they would be safe in the new year.
2. It spread from Apple suppliers. I don't know the time. It is said that it was in the mid-1990s, and the locations were basically all over China. The reason is that a large number of foreign fruits have flowed into the China market, and the prices are cheap. The apples produced locally are sold out, so apple sellers use Christmas Eve to sell apples. Therefore, the China tradition of eating apples on Christmas Eve was formally born.