What is the origin of Christmas?
In the West, Christmas is a particularly important day. Every time Christmas comes, Christmas dinner, Santa Claus, and Christmas gifts are indispensable components. What is the origin of Christmas? What’s the origin story? Shui Mo Xiansheng website has carefully compiled detailed information about the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in 2018. If you want to know about the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, please come to Shui Mo Xiansheng website!The Origin of Christmas:Christmas, also known as Christmas, is translated as "Christ's Mass". It is a traditional Western festival held on December 25th every year. It is the day to celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity. There was no Christmas at the beginning of Christianity. It only came into being about a hundred years after Jesus ascended to heaven. Since the Bible records that Jesus was born at night, the night of December 24 is called "Christmas Eve" or "Silent Eve". Christmas is also a public holiday in the Western world and many other regions!Christmas is originally a religious holiday. In the 19th century, with the popularity of Christmas cards and the appearance of Santa Claus, Christmas began to gradually become popular. Christmas spread to Asia in the mid-19th century. After the reform and opening up, Christmas became particularly popular in China. By the beginning of the 21st century, Christmas had been organically integrated with local Chinese customs and had become increasingly mature. Eating apples, wearing Christmas hats, sending Christmas cards, attending Christmas parties, and Christmas shopping have become part of Chinese life. The story of Jesus' birth:According to the Bible, the birth of Jesus was like this: At that time Caesar Augustus issued a decree requiring all people in the Roman Empire to register their household registration; this was first done when Quirinus was the governor of Syria. Then, all the people returned to their hometowns to register. Because Joseph was from the family of David, he also went from Nazareth in Galilee to Bethlehem, the former residence of David in Judea, to register with his pregnant wife Mary. While they were there, the time came for Mary to give birth. She gave birth to her firstborn, a son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because they could not find any lodging in the inn. At this time, some shepherds were camping nearby, watching over their sheep at night. Suddenly an angel of the LORD stood beside them, and the glory of the LORD shone around them, so that they were very afraid. The angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I am here to announce to you a great news for all the people: Today in the city of David a Savior has been born for you, the Messiah. I will give you a sign: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger." Suddenly a large group of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, "To God be glory in heaven, and to the beloved on earth peace!"After the angels had left them and gone up to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that the Lord has told us about." So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the baby lying in a manger. When they had seen the Holy Child, they spread the news of what the angels had told them about this child. Everyone who heard it was very surprised. But Maria kept all this in her heart and thought about it over and over again. The shepherds found that everything they heard and saw was exactly as the angel had reported, so they returned with glory and praise to God. At the same time, a dazzling new star appeared in the sky over Bethlehem. Following the guidance of the star, three kings from the East came, bowed to their knees, worshiped Jesus who was sleeping in the manger, and gave him gifts. The next day, they returned home and announced the good news. The Legend of Santa Claus:The legendary Santa Claus is an old man with a white beard wearing a red robe and a red hat. Every Christmas he comes from the north in a sleigh pulled by reindeer, enters every house through the chimney, and puts Christmas gifts in socks and hangs them on the children's bedside or in front of the fireplace...Santa Claus's original name was Nicolaus. He was born in Asia Minor around the end of the third century. He had good character and received a good education. As an adult, he entered a monastery and later became a priest. Soon his parents died, and he sold all his property and gave it to the poor. At that time, there was a poor family with three daughters. The eldest daughter was 20 years old, the second daughter was 18 years old, and the youngest daughter was 16 years old. Only the second daughter was strong and smart and beautiful, while the other two daughters were weak and sickly. So the father wanted to sell his second daughter to make a living. When St. Nicholas learned about this, he came to comfort them. At night, Nicholas secretly filled three socks with gold and quietly placed them at the bedside of the three girls. The next day, the three sisters found the gold and were overjoyed. Not only did they pay off their debts, but they also lived a worry-free life. Later they learned that the gold was given by Nicholas. It was Christmas that day, so they invited him to their home to express their gratitude. From then on, people would tell this story every Christmas. The children would be very envious after listening to it and hope that Santa Claus would also bring them gifts. Hence the above legend. (The legend of Christmas stockings also came from this, and later, children all over the world had the custom of hanging Christmas stockings.) Later, Nicholas was promoted to bishop. He worked hard to spread the holy religion. He died in 359 AD and was buried in the temple. There are many miraculous signs after death, especially fragrant liquid flowing beside the tomb, which can cure all kinds of diseases. |
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