Christmas is a day that brings real hope and longing to all mankind in a year. It holds high the torch of brotherhood.
Christmas is a day when most people are open-minded and tolerant.
It is also on this day that most people try their best to be friendly and considerate to others;
On this day, we all act with grace and generosity as always;
On this day, the joy of family is far more important than the profit of business;
On this day, when people of different races meet and speak, they are all cheerful;
On this day, people from all walks of life wish each other a happy holiday;
On this day, even the enemies are reunited.
To commemorate the birth of the Savior, of course, it is not to sing hymns or dance. First of all, we should think about God's conservatism over the past year, so that we can spend it safely. How many times have we been considerate of the Lord's heart during the year, how many times have we done our part for the family of God, and have we ever borne the fruit of the Holy Spirit during the year? Is there a new life of Christ in our actions? Then sing and praise, and praise the Lord with heart and honesty. However, in some places now, some sisters are too busy practicing dance to pursue Excellence in dance. In order to step up rehearsal, God's Word has stopped learning. I think this situation is only to please people's eyes, not to please the Lord's heart.
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12 ways to remember the true meaning of Christmas.
We should get rid of the traditional ways of celebrating Christmas, such as shopping in a hurry, eating and drinking, and take some time to rekindle the new Christmas fireworks and leave the more "fresh" Christmas spirit at home.
1, candlelight is bright
The bright candlelight drives out the darkness and becomes a remarkable symbol of vitality in winter. On the first Advent (Sunday four weeks before Christmas), some Christians lit candles in the church and took them home. Candles burned one after another until Christmas Eve. The whole family can have a candlelight dinner. You can also traditionally light three more candles, each representing a week of Advent.
2. Donating to public welfare undertakings
If you know someone who is willing to donate to public welfare, you can donate in her/his name.
3. Write a letter
Will you have someone who has helped you in your life? Or do you want to make up with an old friend who had an argument? Or want to say "I love you" to the person you love? Then now is the best time to pick up a pen and paper to express your feelings.
4. Give the most needed gifts
We often give gifts for the sake of "giving gifts". In fact, people already have or don't need them. We should try to give those gifts that have not been sent on the gift list.
5. Plant a real Christmas tree
An interesting way to remember Christmas is to give those nature lovers a "last minute" gift. By phone or surfing the Internet, you can spend 10 dollars to help America's oldest non-profit civic reservation organization-American Forest Organization, and plant 10 trees in the most severely damaged forest ecosystem.
6. Create a new family holiday
If you traditionally accompany your husband's relatives on Christmas Eve, but you have to accompany your own relatives on Christmas Day, then you will regret that you can't celebrate this festival with your husband and children at home. Some people even complain that they and their children never have private time and space to spend Christmas. Then, we can create a new festival, such as1Adam's Day on February 23rd-because Adam was born earlier than Eve. On 23rd, we can share gifts, have dinner and celebrate the festive season with our family and children.
7. Create a Christmas gift notebook.
Buy a beautiful notebook to record the gifts you and your family receive and send. Next year, when you want to write a greeting or give a gift, take a notebook with you, so that you can avoid giving people duplicate gifts. Notepad is a sign of your consideration for yourself and others.
8. Decorate the Christmas tree by division of labor
Let the family divide the work to decorate the Christmas tree. Divide the tree into different parts with red ribbons, so that everyone has their own place to decorate, so as to avoid the Christmas tree decoration being similar year after year.
9. Have dinner beside the Christmas tree.
After the Christmas tree is decorated, everyone has dinner around it. Turn off all the lights except the tree and imagine how beautiful this tree is! This idea is most suitable for the night after a tiring Christmas shopping all afternoon.
10, make Christmas Eve simple
On Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, it is suggested to have a simple dinner, such as pizza, or let the guests help themselves to sandwiches, instead of being tired ... > >
Question 2: The meaning of Christmas (Christmas) is also called Christmas Day, the birthday of Jesus, translated as "Christ Mass", a traditional western festival, which falls on February 25th every year. Mass is a liturgy of the church. Christmas is a religious festival, because it is celebrated as the birthday of Jesus, hence the name "Christmas". [ 1]
Most Catholic churches will hold midnight mass on Christmas Eve on 24th, that is, in the early morning of1February 25th, while some Christian churches will hold good news and then celebrate Christmas on1February 25th. Another branch of Christianity, the Orthodox Church, celebrates Christmas on 1 7th every year.
Christmas is also a public holiday in the western world and many other regions, such as Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and Singapore in Asia. In the time of Constantine (AD 3 13), the Roman church gradually got used to celebrating the birth of the Lord on December 25th.
Question 3: What is the significance of Christmas in China? First, "the west wind overwhelms the east wind", why is Christmas coming?
In recent years, the offensive of foreign festivals, which mainly focus on Christmas, has become more and more fierce, while the traditional festivals in China have become more and more deserted compared with foreign festivals. Especially in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, young people are in raptures at the mention of Christmas, while the traditional Lunar New Year is becoming more and more "old-fashioned, monotonous, calm, and the more boring it is to cross …". The aggressive situation of Christmas has its specific reasons:
1, China's economic development and the improvement of people's living standards
More and more people in China celebrate Christmas, which is a symbol of the country's economic development and the improvement of residents' living standards. The more developed the economy, the higher the income of residents, the stronger the material foundation of residents, the stronger the pursuit of leisure, and the more holidays and festivals.
2. The deepening of cultural exchanges between China and the West and the role of western strong economy.
China's opening to the outside world is getting higher and higher. A large number of European and American multinational companies have entered China, and a large number of westerners have gone to China to work and travel. Many traditional western customs have also been brought in more widely and have a far-reaching impact.
Christmas is becoming more and more popular in China, and the economy is also an important factor. In China, a country with no Christian tradition at all, Christmas is so popular that the relative strength of western economy and culture plays a subtle role. The history of celebrating Christmas in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other regions is longer than that in China, mainly because of the cultural diffusion and spread in countries and regions with more developed economies.
3. Urban residents, especially young people, have formed a special orientation for Christmas.
The Spring Festival is a time for China people to relive their family ties, which is about reunion. The 11th May Day is a luxurious rest time, and residents only want to travel with their families, or simply rest and sleep late to raise their spirits. As for the foreign festival represented by Christmas, the urban residents in China, especially the young people, have blurred its original meaning and turned it into a feast of crazy fun and revelry. From the perspective of folklore, traditional festivals in China emphasize reunion more, so it seems to be a burden to many young people, while most western festivals are carnival-like, and Christmas is more like being for yourself. For young people who advocate individuality and pursue fashion, foreign festivals are more able to publicize a free mood.
4. Promotional activities promoted by businesses and media.
The propaganda offensive fueled by merchants and the media from all sides led the general public's fantasy and desire for the festival, thus producing a magnificent Christmas army. Just like the current National Day Golden Week, people don't have to travel, but when the big environment provides such a behavioral condition, when the media and businesses make such a "beautiful" trap, people have to jump into it. Of course, there is no harm in letting more people jump into this trap, which is also a holiday economy.
Second, the characteristics of Christmas consumption in China
As an exotic product, Christmas has its specific applicable subject and time and space conditions in China. At present, Christmas consumption in China has the following characteristics:
1, the main body of Christmas consumption is young people.
The survey found that 70% of Christmas people are young people under the age of 38, and 45% of them have considerable economic strength.
Students and some employees who are more open and directly related to brain power are the main payers of Christmas. Students can quickly accept new things, and some relatively open industries directly related to brain power, such as network, business, education, etc., are easy to come into contact with new things from abroad. People working in these industries are naturally brought into Christmas Eve by their careers, among which white-collar workers in foreign companies are prominent.
2. Developed and open cities are the concentrated areas of Christmas consumption.
Whether and how a city celebrates Christmas is closely related to its cultural composition, economic development and openness. In developed and open cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Christmas has become a foreign festival known to ordinary people, but the lively atmosphere on Christmas Eve in some inland cities in northwest China is very thin, especially in some small and medium-sized cities with underdeveloped economies, and Christmas is ineffective. In towns and rural areas, there is no trace of Christmas.
3. Christmas entertainment consumption time is concentrated on Christmas Eve.
Because there is no holiday, the celebration 100% is held at night. Students and white-collar workers who have been busy all day, who are active in the forefront of fashion, take this opportunity to relax. Because Christmas is also the "second Valentine's Day", students in colleges and universities are most keen on it, especially those couples who are in love will choose to gather for a carnival on Christmas Eve. Similarly ... > >
Question 4: Does Christmas represent the meaning of work? Christmas, also known as Christmas, commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was born to preach the gospel of heaven and to die for mankind.
Nowadays, the society, especially Chinese mainland, always misunderstand that the central figure of Christmas is Santa Claus, but it is not. In fact, Jesus Christ should be the center of the festival. You can see that there will be angel dolls or pictures, because when Jesus was born, angels reported the birth information of the savior to the shepherd; You will see the stars on the Christmas tree, because when Jesus was born, three doctors from the East followed a star to the place where Jesus was born. You saw Santa Claus because a kind-hearted man was moved by the spirit of sacrifice and dedication of Jesus Christ and gave gifts to others.
Question 5: What is the special significance of Christmas? 1) In religion
Christmas has become a custom all over the world, but have you ever explored the origin of this day? Do you know why n celebrates this day?
The origin of Christmas can be traced back to the birth of Jesus 200 1 years ago.
In what year was Jesus born?
Although it is impossible to investigate the exact year, most archaeologists believe that it should be the year when the century was divided (that is, one year BC), but the correct date of birth cannot be determined. Therefore, the early Christians took the Mishraism of the Roman Empire as the first day to commemorate the birth of the Sun God on December 25th every year.
So Christmas is an important festival for Christians to commemorate the birth of Yahya in religion.
According to the Bible, Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a small Jewish town. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was pregnant because of the Holy Spirit. In her dream, the angel Gabriel appeared to her and told her that she was going to give birth to the son of God, and he would be called Jesus. When she returned to her hometown with her husband Yue Se, all the hotels were full, so Mary was forced to give birth to Jesus in the manger. Inspired by God, three doctors in the far east followed a bright star in the sky to find Jesus, bowed down and worshipped him, opened the treasure box and presented him with gold, frankincense and myrrh as gifts. Pastors in Bethel also heard the voice of angels from heaven, offering them good news of the birth of Jesus.
(B) in folk customs
That goes back to Germany. In Germany, the four Sundays before Christmas are ranked first, second, third and fourth respectively. The Christmas market started around the first festival, and on the day of the first festival, every household will light the first candle in the adventskranz, and then each festival will smoke separately and then light the other candles in the wreath. When the fourth candle is lit, it means that Christmas is coming!
During this period, German families began to prepare for all kinds of shopping, decoration and cleaning at the same time. Is this like our twelfth lunar month? Children will also get an "ADVENTSKALENDER", which is a paper box with 1 to 24 small "doors" on it, and there is a small toy or candy behind each door. Just like when we were young, we smoked in the grocery store attached to our home. Children can open one door every day from December 1st, just before Christmas on December 24th. But naughty children usually can't wait to open it all on the first day!
▲ The origin of Santa Claus
Christmas is an exciting day, especially for children. I believe everyone is familiar with Santa Claus? Once upon a time, there was an old man named Nicholas, who loved to help poor families all his life. Once, he helped three poor people to give 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 fell right into a stocking on the wall. So, the gift-giving method of putting gifts in Christmas socks goes door to door to ask for candy!
It is said that on the night of Christmas Eve, the husband's association will drive a reindeer sleigh full of gifts to send some children who have behaved well in the past year. He will quietly climb into the house from the chimney and stuff the gifts in socks hanging on the bedside. Therefore, children always hang colorful socks on the bedside, and put a cup of hot milk next to the socks to quench their thirst for hard-working Santa Claus and give themselves a big gift.
The next day, every child couldn't wait to open the ceremony and want to know what reward he got.
In 1822, after a Dutch missionary spread the story of this great philanthropist to the United States, American businessmen used this festival to publicize advertisements in a big way every year with special marketing techniques, making a lot of money, which also followed suit in Japan and other countries in Asia. Therefore, the custom of dressing up as Santa Claus to celebrate Christmas has gradually become popular all over the world.
▲ The origin of Christmas tree
1. It is said that in the 16th century or so, the Germans first put evergreen pine and cypress branches in the house for decoration. Later, German missionary Martin Luther put candles on fir branches in the Woods and lit them, making them look like starlight leading people to Bethlehem, just like the Magi found Jesus according to the stars in the sky two thousand years ago. Today, people have switched to small light bulbs instead of candles.
2. Legend has it that a long time ago, a farmer met a poor child on Christmas Day. He warmly received the child, and the child broke his roots when he left. > >
Question 6: What are the colors of Christmas? What's the point? Red and green at Christmas
The main colors of Christmas are red and green. This reflects the ancient people's love for holly. This plant has dark green pointed leaves and bears blood-red berries in winter. In ancient times, people used evergreen plants such as holly to decorate houses and churches in winter. They think that evil spirits will kill plants in winter, causing leaves and flowers to wither. Holly has an extraordinary ability to survive in the winter of death, so they believe that Holly will have the same strength to protect them from the harm of the god of death. In addition, holly has spikes and red berries, which is very suitable as a symbol of crown. (In the Bible, Jesus was crowned with thorns and dressed as the king of the Jews before suffering. )
Since the 19th century, poinsettia has become another familiar Christmas ornament. Orangutan wood, also known as Christmas red, has bright red leaves and small yellow-green flowers. Its star-shaped leaves are often compared to the mysterious star of Bethlehem, which is the star of life.
Fourth, mistletoe garland
Mistletoe is an evergreen plant parasitic on fruit trees, and its branches are often used as Christmas decorations. People usually hang it on the door. A man can kiss any girl standing under the mistletoe.
In ancient times, mistletoe was regarded as a magical herb, and it was called a panacea. People respect it very much, and they must use a golden sickle when taking it off the parasitic plant. Because people think it has magical power, mistletoe is often hung on the door to pray for good luck.
Modern kissing customs can be traced back to Scandinavian armistice customs. Scandinavians are not allowed to fight near mistletoe. The branches of mistletoe hanging on the door become an oath of peace and friendship, and the establishment of this oath is confirmed by such friendly actions as kissing. In this way, we can reasonably explain the Christmas kiss under mistletoe, because Christmas is a peaceful day.
With the development of the times and the change of living environment, especially the young people's pursuit of fashion, many traditional customs are no longer popular. However, the historical inheritance of customs and habits can reflect the cultural foundation of a nation to some extent. Knowing the background knowledge of some customs will not only improve our interest in English learning, but also help us overcome the cultural barriers in language communication, help us understand and understand westerners, and enable us to communicate better.
Question 7: The origin, customs, significance, time and birthplace of Spring Festival and Christmas. The origin of Christmas.
Every year1February 25th is the day when most Christians in the world commemorate the birth of Jesus.
There was no Christmas at the beginning of the church, and it only happened about a hundred years after Jesus ascended to heaven. It is said that the first Christmas was held in A.D. 138, initiated by the Bishop of Rome, Saint Clemens. The first Christmas in the history of the church was in 336 AD. Because the Bible does not clearly remember when Jesus was born, Christmas dates vary from place to place. It was not until 440 AD that the Holy See decided1February.
The 25th is Christmas. In 1607, church leaders from all over the world gathered in Bethlehem to further confirm it. Since then, most Christians in the world have taken1February 25th as Christmas. In the 19th century, Christmas cards became popular, Santa Claus appeared, and Christmas became popular.
Because the Bible records that Jesus was born at night, it is traditionally called1February 24th as "Christmas Eve" or "Christmas Eve".
Question 8: How many volts is a 1.5 volt battery and a 4 volt battery in parallel? After DC batteries are connected in parallel, the one with low voltage will become the load.