Christmas Eve refers to the eve of Christmas on December 25 of the gregorian calendar every year. In Western countries, people attach great importance to this festival, the government, school holidays, company shutdowns, everyone will participate in various celebrations, lively, is a veritable national festival.
The origin of Christmas Eve
According to the Bible, the angels knew that Jesus would save the world when he came to earth, so on the night of Jesus' birth, the angel came to earth and told a group of shepherds about the birth of Jesus, so that they could report the good news of Jesus' birth to the world. Later, people followed the example of the angels and preached the good news of the birth of Jesus everywhere on the night of Christmas Eve. To this day, the good news has become an indispensable program for Christmas Eve, because the birth of Jesus has a sense of peace and smoothness, so the night of December 24 is called "Christmas Eve" or "Christmas Eve".
Western customs on Christmas Eve
Western countries believe that Christmas Eve is a day to sweep the dust, and on the day of Christmas, the whole family will carry out a cleaning and set up a venue for the next day's Christmas. In the United States, cranberry sauce, turkey, stuffed foods, pumpkin pie and green beans are very common on christmas eve, and on Christmas Eve, the British and American foods are basically undifferentiated. In France and some French-speaking countries, Christmas dinners are held on Christmas Eve in the form of long periods of time, and may be held on Christmas Eve, with the name given to the word réveil (meaning "sober person"), as parties often require parties to stay awake until midnight or later. In short, Westerners treat Christmas Eve as seriously and solemnly as we Chinese treat Chinese New Year's Eve Eve.
Legend has it that on the night of December 24, a "Santa Claus" with a red hat, a red cotton coat, a long white beard, and red boots on his feet would fly in the sky in a sleigh pulled by 9 reindeer, enter the house from chimney to house, and then secretly put gifts in the socks at the head of the good children's beds, or pile them under the Christmas tree by the fireplace. Although no one has actually seen this "Santa Claus" driving a reindeer from the sky, adults will dress up as him and give gifts to children on Christmas Eve.
Parents in many Western countries will use the beautiful lie of "Santa Claus" to give gifts to encourage children to behave well and be a good child, and the symbol of "Santa Claus" contains the love of parents and the innocence and expectation of children.
Chinese how to spend Christmas Eve
Among Chinese teenagers, it is popular to send apples on Christmas Eve, a custom that is only found in China. Apple apple and Christmas Eve flat is a harmonic sound, meaning peace, peace, so Chinese think that apple is peace fruit, on this day, young people popular to give apples to each other.
Especially for couples, Christmas Eve is also a romantic date day, which can be used to show affection. There are fears that young Chinese people spend Christmas Eve, which is a cultural invasion of the West. In fact, the cultural accumulation of the Chinese nation for five thousand years tells modern people that our national culture has a strong inclusiveness and melting. Any foreign festival, as long as it comes to China, can only bring a strong Chinese flavor. Do Western countries eat apples on Christmas Eve? Do not eat. In China, just because there is a "ping" character in the apple, and the Chinese word is harmonious with the "ping" character of "Christmas Eve", we use the way of eating apples on Christmas Eve to express our good wishes to each other. We should have cultural self-confidence, and our broad and profound culture cannot be impacted by foreign festival culture.
In fact, now many young people are just borrowing a festival to get together, lively and lively, contact each other's feelings, you send me peace fruit, I send you oranges, chocolates. Christmas is not our Chinese holiday, for us, just take advantage of the merchants to do activities, through the beautiful decoration of various shops, with friends to eat and drink. Invading national culture, a bit alarmist, not enough to be afraid!