Christmas is called Christmas and the birthday of Jesus Christ, which translates as "Christ Mass". It is a traditional festival in the west, which originated from Christianity and falls on the Gregorian calendar 65438+February 25th every year. Christmas is a religious festival, because it is celebrated as the birthday of Jesus, hence the name "Christmas".
Most Catholic churches will hold midnight mass on Christmas Eve on February 24, 65438+, that is, in the early morning of February 25, 65438+, while some Christian churches will hold a good news party and then celebrate Christmas on February 25, 65438+. Another branch of Christianity, the Orthodox Church, celebrates Christmas every year on 65438+1October 7th.
The burning of Yuanmingyuan occurred in the tenth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1860). After the British and French allied forces captured Beijing, they occupied Yuanmingyuan on June 6th,/kloc-0. 10 year 10 month 18 day, 3500 British troops rushed into Yuanmingyuan and set fire to it. The fire has not been extinguished for three days. Yuanmingyuan and the nearby Qingyi Garden and Jingming Garden? Jingyi Garden? Changchun Garden and Haidian Town were burned into ruins, and nearly 300 eunuchs, maids and craftsmen were buried in the fire of Anyou Palace. Become? Rarely seen atrocities in the history of world civilization.