圣诞节
每年12月25日是全世界大多数基督徒纪念耶稣诞生的日子。教会开始并无圣诞节，约在耶稣升天后百余年内才有。据说：第一个圣诞节是在公元138年，由罗马主教圣克里门倡议举行。而教会史载第一个圣诞节则在公元336年。由于圣经未明记耶稣生于何时，故各地圣诞节日期各异。直到公元440年，才由罗马教廷定12月25日为圣诞节。公元1607年，世界各地教会领袖在伯利恒聚会，进一步予以确定，从此世界大多数的基督徒均以12月25日为圣诞节。十九世纪，圣诞卡的流行、圣诞老人的出
现，圣诞节也开始流行起来了。
由于圣经记载耶稣生于夜间，故传统称12月24日夜为“圣诞夜”或“平安夜”。 西方人以红、绿、白三色为圣诞色，圣诞节来临时家家户户都要用圣诞色来装饰。红色的有圣诞花（一品红，poinsettia）和圣诞蜡烛。绿色的是圣诞树。它是圣诞节的主要装饰品，用砍伐来的杉、柏一类呈塔形的常青树装饰而成。上面悬挂着五颜六色的彩灯、礼物和纸花，还点燃着圣诞蜡烛。红色与白色相映成趣的是圣诞老人，他是圣诞节活动中最受欢迎的人物。西方儿童在圣诞夜临睡之前，要在壁炉前或枕头旁放上一只袜子(Christmas stocking)，等候圣诞老人在他们入睡后把礼物放在袜子内。在西方，扮演圣诞老人也是一种习俗。
Christmas Day
Every year on December 25 in the world the majority of Christians commemorate the birth of Jesus day.
Christmas did not start the church, about 100 years after Jesus ascended to heaven only.It is said: the first Christmas in the year 138, by the Bishop of Rome, St.Clement held the initiative.The church contains the history of the first Christmas in the year 336 AD.As the next remember not in the Bible when Jesus was born, it is different all over the Christmas period.440 years until the year before by the Holy See will be in December 25, for Christmas.Year in 1607, church leaders around the world gathered in Bethlehem, to be further identified, from most parts of the world\'s Christians are on December 25 for Christmas.In the nineteenth century, the popularity of Christmas cards, Santa Claus, and Christmas began to pop up.
As the Bible records Jesus was born at night, so that the traditional December 24 for the day and night \"Christmas\" or \"Silent Night.\"
The western person take red, green, is white tricolor as the Christmas color, Christmas day approaches when each and every family all must use the Christmas color to decorate.
Red has the Christmas flower (poinsettia, poinsettia) and the Christmas candle.The green is a Christmas tree.It is the Christmas day main ornament, with fells the cedar, a cypre kind which aume the evergreen decoration to become.
Above is being hanging the colorful colored lantern, the gift and the artificial flower, but also is lighting the Christmas candle.Red forms a nice contrast with the white is Santa Claus, he is the character which the Christmas day moves most receives welcome.Western child in Christmas night just before going to sleep before must put sock nearby the fireplace or the pillow (Christmas stocking), waits for Santa Claus to go to sleep after them puts the gift in the sock.In the west, an act Santa Claus also is one kind of custom.
