Christmas
The Feast of Christmas
It is not easy to pin-point the origins of the Christmas feast, today the more important feast of the Christmas season in most western Christian churches. One can only say for certain that the birth of Jesus Christ was being celebrated in Rome by the year 336 A.D.; afterwards the feast was celebrated in other Christian churches throughout the world.
Why it was celebrated on December 25th is another question. No date for the birth of Jesus can be found in the New Testament, which is concerned more with the question "Who is Jesus?" than the date of his birth. Early Christian speculation about his birth date was influenced by the symbolism of the changing seasons, then popular in religious thought, which paid careful attention to the equinoxes and solstices of the sun. Christian scholars speculated that Jesus was conceived at the spring equinox (March 25th) and therefore was born on December 25th, the date of the winter solstice.
In many of the Christian churches, March 25th is still the Feast of the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was to be the mother of Jesus.
Possible impluse for the feast of Christmas may have came too from the establishment of the pagan feast of the "Unconquered Sun-God" by the Emperor Aurelian in 274 A.D. to be celebrated on December 25, the day of the winter solstice in Rome and throughout the empire. In response, Christians could celebrate the feast of the "Sun of righteousness" (Malachi 4,2), Jesus Christ, who called himself " the light of the world."
Father Christmas
It is said that in the year of 300 AD, there was a kind old man and his name was Saint Nicholas. He was always ready to help the poor and often gave presents to them.
Today, Father Christmas is an imaginary figure, but nearly all young children believe in him. They think he is a happy old man with a long white beard and a long red robe.
On the night of the twenty-fourth of December every year, Father Christmas from some cold northern land comes down the chimney of the fireplace to put presents by the beds of children or to fill their stockings. So when children go to bed that night, they hang up their stockings, and on Christmas morning they wake to find them full of presents. Of course, it's really their parents who fill the stockings.
Another name for Father Christmas is Santa Claus.
圣诞
节日圣诞节
这是一个不太容易针点起源的圣诞大餐，今天更重要的节日圣诞节，在多数西方国家的基督教教堂。人们只能肯定地说，耶稣基督的诞生正在庆祝在罗马由一年336专案，后来这个节日的庆祝活动，在其他基督教会在整个世界。
为什么这是庆祝12月25日是另一个问题。没有日期为耶稣诞生的，可以发现在新约圣经，这是较为关注这一问题： "谁是耶稣" ？超过了自己的出生日期。早期基督教的揣测，他的出生日期是受象征主义的四季变化，那么受欢迎，在宗教思想，其中支付小心注意这个equinoxes和solstices的太阳。基督教学者推测，耶稣被构思在春分（ 3月25日） ，因此出生于12月25日，该日期的冬至。
在许多基督教教堂， 3月25日仍是盛宴的annunciation ，当天使加布里埃尔宣布玛丽说，她是为了母亲的耶稣。
可能impluse为节日圣诞节可能来得由设立该异教盛宴的" unconquered太阳神" ，由皇帝aurelian在274个专案，以庆祝12月25日，是日冬至在罗马和整个帝国。对此，基督徒可以庆祝的节日"太阳的正义" （玛拉基书4,2 ） ，耶稣基督，自称"世界之光" 。
圣诞老人
据称，在一年的300专案，有一种岁男子，他的名字是圣尼古拉斯。他总是愿意帮助穷人，并常常给予礼物给他们。
今天，圣诞老人是一个虚构的人物，但几乎所有的幼童相信他。他们觉得他是一个快乐岁男子与长长的白胡子和一个长的红色长袍。
对夜的第二十四届每年12月，父亲从圣诞节有些寒冷的北方地归结为烟囱的壁炉把礼物，由张病床的儿童，或填补他们的袜子。因此，当孩子上床当天晚上，他们坑了自己的长筒袜，并于圣诞节早晨醒来发现他们充满了礼物。当然，它的真正父母，填补袜子。
另一名称为父亲圣诞节是圣诞老人。
内容全部来源于网络收集，如有侵权，请联系网站删除：QQ：24596024