The Christmas tree originated in Germany. During Christmas, Germans will decorate their homes with Christmas trees, which are covered with bells, stars and other decorations, and some gifts will be hidden. There will be many Christmas decorations in the Christmas dining table, living room and garden, such as soldiers with wooden walnut pliers, small people with incense, small miners with candles, Christmas manger, music box, Christmas stars and angels, fairy tale characters Hans and Gleiter made of gingerbread, their candy houses and Christmas pyramids with the theme of Christ and religion. Four candles are lit at the bottom of the Christmas pyramid, and the pyramid rotates like a merry-go-round by using the principle of hot air flow. In some small gardens in front of family houses, strings of light chains will be hung on the trees. Many windows will display wooden candlesticks decorated with light chains, and decorations with the theme of the birth of Jesus, mining or animals in the forest in winter.
The most famous Christmas food in Germany is gingerbread. This is a snack between cake and biscuit. Traditional gingerbread is made of honey and pepper, which is sweet, spicy and pungent. Now the gingerbread has been improved and covered with icing, which is not only rich in taste, but also quite pleasing in appearance.
On Christmas Eve, another typical custom of German families is to bake Christmas dried almond cakes. Christmas dried fruit almond cake is a kind of long cake wrapped in white powdered sugar and containing fruit particles. People usually start baking a few weeks before enjoying the cake. The process of making cakes is very complicated. First, soak the dried fruit in wine, and then knead the dried fruit and almond paste soaked in wine into butter dough. After baking, the wrinkled surface is covered with thick white powdered sugar. In order to ferment the cake, the carefully packaged cake should be kept in a dry and cool environment for several weeks after baking. People also bake cookies. According to different personal tastes and crafts, Christmas cookies can be extruded by mold, pinched by hand or extruded by tools. Cinnamon and fennel are often used as raw materials for making cookies, and almonds are also essential. Then sprinkle with Taigu powder, pour with chocolate or syrup, and finally sprinkle with shiny beads of various colors or embellish with star-shaped almond candy, which is very festive and attractive.
Christmas-65438+February 25th, in religious sense, is usually the day when Jesus Christ was born. This is the biggest and most lively festival in Germany every year. This festival not only contains profound and lasting religious factors, but also is a secular festival celebrated all over the world. Germans attach great importance to Christmas family reunion, and usually go home for dinner on Christmas Eve, just like China people have a family reunion dinner. After dinner, listen to music and talk about the life of this year. On February 26th, some relatives will visit your home or you will visit them.