When did people start celebrating Christmas? 🎄🎄🎄

No one knows with certainty the day and month of the birth of Jesus Christ. It was a long time before a date was set for the celebration of Christmas. Around 350, it was decided in a church in Rome that the Mass of Christ, a religious service referring to the birth of Jesus Christ, should take place on December 25. And this was the beginning of the Christmas celebration.

Who decorated the first Christmas tree?

Nobody knows for sure. The custom of taking home an evergreen tree and decorating it for Christmas started in Germany. A legend says that Martin Luther started this custom. Luther was an important Christian leader.

As it is said, when he looked up at the starry sky on Christmas Eve 1513 as he walked home, he had the sensation that the stars were shining between the branches of the trees. Upon arriving home, Martin Luther put a small fir tree in the best room in the house and decorated it with lighted candles.

Have people always sung Christmas songs?

Christmas has had its own music and its own songs since it began to be celebrated. Already in ancient times, singing at parties that celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ was commonplace. People danced in groups with their arms linked while singing easy songs that expressed happiness. Christmas songs became a natural way for Christians to express their joy at Christmas.

Christmas songs became known in England around 1100. Saint Francis of Assisi, who lived in Italy 800 years ago, encouraged people to sing Christmas songs. Sometimes, he is called the father of Christmas songs.

What do Mexican children especially play at Christmas?

They play to break the piñata. The piñata is a kind of clay pot that Mexicans make. They give them very different shapes. Sometimes the piñata looks like a fat person, and other times it looks like a clown, an animal or Santa Claus. It is full of Christmas gifts, such as candies, nuts and small toys.

The piñata is hung from the ceiling or the lintel of a door at a height easily reachable by children. The one who leads the game blindfolds the children, in turn, and leads them in front of the piñata. Only one child plays at a time, while the others wait. The Game director gives a cane or a wand to the boy with eyes bandaged. This one can try to hit the piñata three times. Meanwhile, his companions form a circle around him singing and dancing.

If the child cannot hit the piñata, someone else immediately takes his place. When the piñata breaks, everyone tries to catch as many Christmas presents as possible.

Who was the first Santa Claus?

Some say that Nicolás, Bishop of Mira, was the first Santa Claus. Nicolas lived in Lycia, which was a part of what is now called Turkey, some 300 years after the birth of Jesus Christ. Very little is known about him. However, it is assumed that he loved children very much and showered them with gifts whenever he could. Nicholas became a popular saint in Europe. He is the patron saint of Russia his special day is December 6. "Santa Claus" is the name given in English to "Sinter Claes", which is what the Dutch call Saint Nicholas.

People have always believed that the animal pulling Santa's sleigh was a deer. But over the years, people have had very different beliefs about Santa's way of traveling. Some believed that Santa Claus was going from one place to another riding on a donkey or a horse. Others believed that he flew through the sky in a horse-drawn chariot. But people who lived in the Scandinavian countries always believed that Santa Claus was riding in a sleigh pulled by a deer. How else could it traverse the frozen north of Europe?

Do you know what a Yule log is?

A Yule log is a large log of wood that some people burn on Christmas Eve. From times before the birth of Jesus Christ, the Scandinavians had a festival called Yule. They celebrated Yule around the same time of year that we celebrate Christmas today. The burning of huge logs was part of the festivities. It was believed that the great fires they lit would make the sun shine brighter. After the Scandinavians converted to Christianity, they continued to burn Yule logs. The custom of burning Yule logs spread throughout Europe, including England.

Is New Years Eve and New Years the same holiday?

Yes. In some countries the night of the "new year" is called to the whole night of the last day of the year. That night is the first day of the new year. In other countries the first half of the night is differentiated and it is called "New Year's Eve "On * New Year's Eve" it is customary to eat 12 grapes, one for each chime of the clock that marks the end of the last day of the year. The grapes symbolize the abundance and the sweetness that is given for the year that begins.

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