Sunday, 14 July 2013

Christmas



      Christmas is a festival of the Christians, very cheerful and delightful. It celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the savior of mankind. The manner in which the celebration takes places is most attractive and heart-warming. The festival is celebrated all over the world. It has a worldwide appeal. Even the non-Christians take part in it and enjoy it. It begins on the 24th of December, lasts for a week, and ends with great ringing of bells and merry- making to welcome the New Year.
     People in the Christian world, go almost crazy with the Christmas spirit. They buy gifts and greeting-cards, for their friends and relatives, before the arrival of the great day. There is wild shopping, and people make mouthwatering Christmas cakes and candies. They decorate their houses. They set up the wonderful Christmas tree. This tree is hung with white cotton or wool looking like snow, and decorated with candles, and colored lights and presents.
    December 24 is called Christmas Eve. At the time of going to bed on Christmas Eve, Children hang Stockings at the foot of their beds. They believe that that Father Christmas or Santa Claus will put lovely present into them. Santa Claus is imagined as an old man with a long white beard, wearing a red coat and red cap. Every winter, it is believed he arrives from the north, gets into every house, and slips in wonderful presents for the kids.
    December 25 is the Christmas day. It is a day family reunion and merry-making. Children get up early with great expectations. They find their presents in their stockings. The Christmas dinner is a grand affair with roast turkey and plum- pudding as special preparations. December 26 is called Boxing Day, because in olden days masters used to give money in boxes to their servants on that day. There are loud peelings of church-bells at midnight. December 31, rings out the old and rings in the New Year. Thus Christmas is a season of pleasure and peace and goodwill on earth.

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