Christmas day ppt 圣诞节 英文PPT.pptVIP

* It is interesting to see how different countries celebrate Christmas. The USA is so multi-cultural that you will find many different ways of celebrating Christmas. How is Christmas celebrated around the world? Germans love to decorate their houses at Christmas. Many houses will have little wooden frames holding electric candles in their windows, and coloured pictures of paper or plastic which look beautiful from the outside at night. Often too, they will have an Adventskranz – a wreath of leaves with four candles. (Advent - meaning coming – is the 4 week period before Christmas). On each Sunday of Advent, Another candle is lit. Most homes will also have little wooden cribs - a small model of the stable where Jesus was born, with Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, and animals. Children leave letters on their window sills for Christkind, a winged figure dressed in white robes and a golden crown who distributes gifts. Father Christmas – Der Weihnachtsmann - brings presents in the late afternoon of Christmas Eve (December 24th), after people have been to a church meeting. The presents are then found under the Christmas tree. One person in the family will ring a bell and call everyone to come to the room. “Froehliche Weihnachten” “Merry Christmas!” In the days of the Soviet Union, Christmas was not celebrated very much. New Year was the important time - when Father Frost brought presents to children. With the fall of Communism, Christmas can be openly celebrated - either on December 25th; or more often on January 7th. This unusual date is because the Russian Orthodox church uses the old Julian calendar for religious celebration days. Special Christmas food includes cakes, pies and meat dumplings. Christmas over here in Australia seems to be more casual than anywhere else, from all the reports Ive heard. Well have breakfast with our immediate families, first, if were staying at our own house or a hotel. Its normally bacon, eggs, toast, and black pudding