What are the dates for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? Why does Santa Claus deliver gifts on Christmas Eve?
We celebrate Christmas every year, as well as Christmas Eve the day before. But what are the dates for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? Why does Santa Claus deliver gifts on Christmas Eve? November in the lunar calendar is neither as hot as summer nor as cool as autumn. It is the coldness that you need to resist. Why not follow Mr. Shui Mo to take a look at the daily fortunes for November 2020 of the lunar calendar.What are the dates for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day?Silent Night, also known as Christmas Eve (December 24), is one of the Christmas festivals in most Christian countries. But now, due to the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, it has become a global holiday.Christmas is on December 25th of every year. It is the day when Christians commemorate the birth of Jesus, called Christmas. The Christmas season lasts from December 24th to January 6th of the following year. During the festival, Christians from all over the world hold grand commemorative ceremonies. Christmas was originally a Christian holiday, but because people attach great importance to it, it has become a national holiday, the country’s biggest holiday of the year, comparable to the New Year, similar to our Chinese Spring Festival. Why does Santa Claus deliver gifts on Christmas Eve?There is a legend that Santa Claus came from Saint Nicholas, so Santa Claus is also called St. Nicholas. It is said that he lived in the 4th century AD and was born in Patara in Asia Minor. His family was wealthy and his parents were very devout Catholics. Unfortunately, his parents died early.When Nicholas grew up, he donated all his wealth to the poor and miserable people. He became a monk, devoted himself to the church, and served the society all his life. Nicholas later became a priest and was promoted to bishop. After his death, he was revered as a saint. He was an old man with a white beard and a red hat wearing a red robe. He did a lot of charity work throughout his life, and he liked to help the poor secretly the most. Santa Claus became his later nickname, which came from the story of him secretly giving money to help three girls. It is said that not far from Nikola, there lived three beautiful girls, aged twenty, eighteen and sixteen respectively. My father was a poor scholar who often lived on loans. Once, because he had no ability to repay his debts, he had to cruelly sell his beautiful and healthy third daughter to the creditor and took her to Africa to be a maid. When the three daughters learned about this, they hugged each other and cried bitterly. One can imagine the sad situation in the family. When Nicholas learned about this, he ran to their house and comforted them. At night, Nicholas filled three pairs of stockings with gold and secretly hung them in front of the windows of the three girls. They had the gold and paid off their father's debt, and the third daughter was saved from the fate of being a maid. The next day was Christmas, and they knew that it was Nicholas who had done a good deed, so they invited him to celebrate and thank them. From then on, the three girls told this story every Christmas. When the children heard this, they were very envious and hoped that Santa Claus would come and give them a sock full of gifts. Later, some smart parents started giving their children a sock full of gifts in the name of Santa Claus. As a result, this custom became popular in Europe and the United States. Nicholas later became the bishop of Mira. Since he was also an orphan when he was young, he became the protector of orphans. After his death, the Church canonized him as a saint. His spirit of caring for orphans and helping the poor has been passed down along with Christmas. Later, many kind-hearted people in the world followed Nicholas' spirit of benevolence, donated large amounts of items, and in the name of Santa Claus, brought love to the poor, the poor old people and orphans. Every Christmas, Santa Claus always appears all over the world, bringing warmth and happiness to thousands of children, lonely elderly people, and abandoned children. |
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