1. Decorate carefully to create a festive atmosphere

Foreigners will definitely decorate their homes, streets, churches, etc., or themselves before Christmas arrives. Decorate your body with various Christmas-inspired items.

1. Setting up a Christmas tree

Setting up a Christmas tree is one of the most famous traditions in Christmas celebrations. Usually people bring an evergreen plant such as a pine tree indoors or outdoors before Christmas and decorate it with Christmas lights and colorful decorations. And place an angel or star on top of the tree.

2. Decorate Christmas windows

Every year before Christmas comes, store window designers will use their brains to fully display the Christmas theme, and they will never Same style as previous years.

3. Hanging Christmas rings

In Western countries, decorations are hung at the door of homes during Christmas, usually with green branches and leaves or rattan (pine hair, pine needles, etc.) and silver The main colors of green, white, yellow and red are metal and golden bells with red ribbons, which represent joy and celebration. It says MERRY CHRISMAS or abbreviated as X'mas.

4. Wear a Santa hat

A Santa hat is a red hat. It is said that when you wear it to sleep at night, in addition to sleeping peacefully and a little warm, you will also find that there is something in the hat the next day. There are some gifts from loved ones.

5. Wear Christmas socks

Christmas socks were originally a pair of large red socks, of any size. Because Christmas stockings are used to hold gifts, they are children's favorite thing. They will hang their socks by the bed at night, waiting to receive gifts the next morning.

2. Send Christmas cards

Christmas cards are greeting cards for Christmas and New Year. They are printed with pictures about the story of the birth of Jesus, as well as words to celebrate Christmas and New Year. Before Christmas Eve comes, family members who go out to work will return home one after another, while those at home will prepare Christmas cards, write blessings, and send them to relatives who cannot go home, or to relatives and friends far away.

3. Eat Christmas dinner

Christmas dinner is usually held on Christmas night, mainly for family reunion, and guests are generally not invited to attend. The whole family sat around the Christmas tree and had a festive meal. The main foods of Christmas dinner include roast turkey, pudding and mince pies.

The custom of eating turkey for Christmas dinner is prevalent in the United States. The British Christmas dinner is roast goose instead of turkey. Austrians love to have a Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve. The whole family gathers with relatives and friends to go to the restaurant in groups to have a Christmas dinner. Among them, turkey, bacon, roasted beef and pork legs are essential, accompanied by Famous wines.

4. Hold a Christmas party

Christmas parties are an essential part of Christmas, including family-style, friend-style, and lover-style.

5. Sing Christmas carols

The hymns sung at Christmas are called "Christmas carols". There are many Christmas carols, and the music scores are mostly taken from the masterpieces of famous musicians. Musical works such as "Silent Night" and "Messiah" (also known as "Savior") are often sung.

6. Good News

On Christmas Eve (from the evening of December 24th to the morning of December 25th), the church organizes some choirs (or formed spontaneously by believers) to sing from door to door to others. Singing Christmas carols loudly at the door or under the window is called "bringing good news". This activity often goes on until dawn. As the number of people increases, the singing becomes louder and louder, spreading throughout the streets and alleys.

7. Santa Claus delivers gifts

A mysterious figure who secretly gives gifts to children on Christmas Eve is one of the representative characters of the holiday theme. He is generally considered to be a derivative of the Christian saint Saint Nicholas.

Although no one has actually seen the mysterious man, people will dress up as him to give gifts to their children. He is usually described as an old man wearing a red hat, a big white beard, a red cotton coat, and red boots. He is holding a big bag with gifts. Because he always appears on Christmas Eve to distribute gifts, so It is customary to call him "Santa Claus".

According to this allusion, when Westerners celebrate Christmas, parents often put Christmas gifts into the socks that children hang on the bedside as gifts from Santa Claus.

Extended information:

Christmas is here. In addition to Christmas trees and Santa Claus, Christmas abroad is colorful and there are also some interesting activities.

01 UK

British people pay the most attention to food at Christmas, including roast pig, turkey, Christmas pudding, Christmas mince pies, etc. Everyone in the family had a gift, and so did the servants, and all the gifts were delivered on Christmas morning. Some Christmas carolers go from door to door to sing good news. They will be invited into the house by the owner and treated with refreshments or given small gifts.

02 United States

Christmas is designated as a public holiday by the government in the United States and is the most lively festival. Christmas Eve is like New Year’s Eve in China, where parents, brothers and sisters gather together to prepare for A sumptuous dinner, the family has a reunion dinner together, and then the children will prepare cookies and milk.

Put it under the Christmas tree and wait for Santa Claus to come and taste it. After the child falls asleep, the parents will eat the cookies and milk on behalf of Santa Claus, indicating that Santa Claus has arrived and will prepare the cookies in advance. The gifts prepared by the children are placed under the Christmas tree.

03 France

In the Sergiers area in central France, heavy snowfall occurs in the days before and after Christmas every year. The white snow is refreshing. In the eyes of Westerners, white Christmas is a kind of auspiciousness. In France, the manger is the most distinctive Christmas symbol because it is said that Jesus was born next to the manger. After people sing Christmas carols praising Jesus, they must drink freely. Champagne and brandy are traditional French Christmas wines.

04 Australia

Australia is one of the countries in the southern hemisphere. At the end of December, while Western European countries are celebrating Christmas amid the howling cold wind, Australia is in the middle of summer when the heat is unbearable.

So during Christmas in Australia, you can see shirtless young men dripping with sweat and girls in miniskirts everywhere, as well as carefully decorated winter snow scenes in shop windows, Christmas trees covered with snowflakes and people wearing red cotton-padded jackets. Santa Claus constitutes Australia’s unique holiday scene. This sharp contrast between scorching heat and severe winter is probably unique in Western countries.

05 Italy

At Christmas, there is a good custom in Italy. In order to thank their parents for their upbringing over the past year, children will write their compositions or poems before eating Christmas dinner. Hidden in napkins, tablecloths or plates. After a big meal, he took it out and read it aloud.

06 Ireland

Every family in Ireland puts a candle or light on the window and door frame on Christmas Eve to welcome the birth of the Savior. We can also see from the pictures that Irish people put up window grilles on the glass during Christmas. Why don't you give it a try, light a candle on the window and door frame, and welcome the mysterious Santa Claus~

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Christmas