Every year on December 25, is the day Christians commemorate the birth of Jesus, called Christmas. \x0d\\\x0d\ From December 24th to January 6th of the following year is the Christmas festival. During the festival, Christians in all countries hold solemn ceremonies to commemorate the event. Christmas was originally a Christian festival, because people pay extra attention, it has become a national holiday, the country's biggest festival of the year, can be compared with the New Year, the class is the West like our country to celebrate the Spring Festival. \x0d\\\x0d\\ Westerners use red, green and white as the Christmas colors, and when Christmas comes, every house will be decorated with Christmas colors. The red ones are Christmas flowers and Christmas candles. The green is the Christmas tree. It is the main decoration of Christmas, and is made of a tower-shaped evergreen tree, such as cedar and cypress, which are cut down. Colorful lights, presents and paper flowers are hung on it, and Christmas candles are lit. \x0d\\\x0d\\\ Red against white is Santa Claus, who is the most popular figure at Christmas events. Before going to bed on Christmas Eve, children in the West place a stocking in front of the fireplace or next to their pillows and wait for Santa Claus to put presents inside the stocking after they fall asleep. It is also a custom in the West to play Santa Claus. \x0d\\\x0d\ The name "Christmas" is a contraction of the name "Christian Mass". The Mass is a liturgy of the Church. Christmas is a religious festival. We celebrate it as the birth of Jesus, hence the name. On this day, all Christian churches around the world hold special liturgies. But there are many Christmas festivities that are not even remotely related to religion. Exchanging gifts and sending Christmas cards all make Christmas a universal celebration. \x0d\\\x0d\\\ There is a story to the birth of Jesus, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. God sent a messenger, Gabriel, to tell Joseph in a dream not to reject Mary because she was unmarried and pregnant, but to marry her and name the child "Jesus", meaning to save the people from their sins. \x0d\\\x0d\\ When Mary was about to be born, the Roman government ordered all the people to come to Bethlehem to declare their residence. Joseph and Mary had to obey. \x0d\\\x0d\ They arrived in Bethlehem at dusk, but they were unable to find an inn to stay in, and had only a stable to stay in. At that moment, Jesus was about to be born! Mary had no choice but to give birth to Jesus in a manger. To commemorate the birth of Jesus, later generations designated December 25 as Christmas Day and celebrated Mass every year to honor the birth of Jesus. \x0d\\\x0d\\ Christmas is celebrated on December 25th to commemorate the birth of Jesus, but the actual date of birth is unknown. In the nineteenth century, Christmas became popular with the popularity of Christmas cards and the appearance of Santa Claus. \x0d\\\x0d\ Origin of Santa Claus \x0d\\x0d\ Christmas is a time of great anticipation, especially for children. I'm sure everyone is familiar with Santa Claus, right? Once upon a time, there was an old man named Nicholas, who loved to help poor people all his life. Once he helped three poor young people and gave them three bags of gold to escape the misfortune of being sold. When Nicholas secretly gave one of the bags of gold to one of the women, he threw the gold through one of the windows and it happened to fall into a stocking that was on the wall. So the gift-giver who put the gift in the Christmas stocking went from house to house asking for candy, yo! \x0d\\\x0d\\ It is said that on the night of Christmas Eve, Santa Claus will drive a reindeer sleigh full of gifts ready to send some of the children who have behaved well during the year, he will quietly climb into the house through the chimney, the gifts tucked into the stockings hanging above the bed. So the child always hangs a colorful sock above the bed and puts a glass of hot milk next to the sock to quench the thirst of the hard-working Santa Claus and to give a big gift to himself. \x0d\\ Every next day every child can't wait to open the gift and find out what reward they get. \x0d\ By 1822, a Dutch missionary brought the story of this great philanthropist to the United States, and American businessmen made a fortune by using this holiday to publicize and advertise the event every year with special marketing techniques, and Japan and other countries in Asia followed suit. As a result, the custom of celebrating Christmas by dressing up as Santa Claus has gradually become popular in countries around the world. \x0d\\\x0d\\ The origin of the Christmas tree \x0d\\x0d\ 1. It is said that around the sixteenth century, the Germans were the first to take the branches of evergreen pines and cypresses to the house to be decorated, and then the German missionary, Martin Luther, put candles on fir branches in the woods and lit them to make it look like the starlight that guided the people to Bethlehem as the Three Doctors of the East did 2,000 years ago when they found Jesus by following the star in the sky. The same way the Three Doctors of the East found Jesus by the star in the sky two thousand years ago. Today, people have switched to using small light bulbs instead of candles. \x0d\\\\x0d\ 2. Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a farmer who met a poor child on Christmas Day, he received the child warmly, and when the child left, he broke off a pine branch and stuck it on the ground, and the pine branch was immediately transformed into a tree, which was full of gifts to thank the farmer for his goodwill. \x0d\\\x0d\\ However, Christmas trees really appeared at Christmas, first seen in Germany, and then spread to Europe and the United States, where they became indispensable decorations for Christmas. They usually decorate the Christmas tree with colorful colored lights, wax, gifts or angels. Especially people living in the Northwest of the United States, because of the rich forest resources in the area, they will go together as a family to pick a real tree as a Christmas tree. There are many types of Christmas trees, including natural pine trees, artificial trees and white trees. Each tree is filled with a wide array of decorations, but at the top of each tree there must be an oversized star, symbolizing the star that led the Three Doctors of the East to Jesus. \x0d\\\\x0d\customs:\x0d\Christmas colors\x0d\ Red, green and white are the colors of Christmas, and when Christmas comes around every house is decorated with Christmas colors. The red ones are Christmas flowers and Christmas candles, and the green ones are Christmas trees, which are the main decorations for Christmas. \x0d\\\x0d\\ Santa Claus\x0d\ He is the most popular character in Christmas activities. Before going to bed on Christmas Eve, children in the West place a stocking in front of the fireplace or next to their pillows and wait for Santa Claus to put presents inside the stocking after they go to sleep. It is also a custom in the West to play Santa Claus. \x0d\\\x0d\\ Christmas tree\x0d\ Christmas tree is one of the most famous traditions of Christmas. Usually people get an evergreen plant such as a pine tree inside or outdoors around Christmas time and decorate it with Christmas lights and colorful ornaments and put an angel or star on top of the tree. \x0d\\\x0d\\ Christmas stockings\x0d\ Christmas stockings first used to be a pair of large red socks of any size. Since Christmas stockings were to be used to hold presents, they were a favorite thing for children, who would hang their stockings by their beds at night, waiting to receive their gifts the next morning.