天汉国际版祝所有同袍圣诞快乐

故国佑明

雪花飘舞,风铃叮当,欢快的平安夜,西方传说中的圣诞老人将会驾着雪橇悄悄载来礼物与祝福!人们都会在这个美丽的夜晚守候!

【圣诞节】西方人认为圣诞节是耶稣的诞辰，每年的12月25日，大家都要欢聚一堂，交换礼物、享受美食，庆祝这一天。

【平安夜】即圣诞前夜，一家人会共享丰盛晚餐、举办化妆舞会，迎接圣诞节的到来。平安夜亦被认为是圣诞老人向孩子们发礼物的时间。


【圣诞老人】每到圣诞节，圣诞老人就会驾着驯鹿雪橇，给孩子们带来礼物。其原型是公元4世纪和蔼慷慨的主教尼古拉。

【圣诞大餐】圣诞吃火鸡已有400多年传统，火鸡烤制工艺复杂，味道鲜美。不少家庭还准备了腊鸡、烧牛仔肉和猪腿，并佐以美酒。

【圣诞树】最早出现在古罗马的农神节，西方人用圣诞树象征伊甸园，树上点上蜡烛，挂满甜饼糖果，树下摆满圣诞礼物。




圣诞节虽然不是中国的传统节日，但现在已经风行中国各城市，许多情侣更喜欢通过圣诞节来互相表达爱意，圣诞节是属于全人类的圣诞节，在此圣诞节来临之际，天汉国际版祝全体同袍圣诞快乐~~~joyeux noel~~~~~~~~merry christmas

子奚

Merry Xmas everyone![em29] [em29]

濯兮

Merry Christmas[em31]
喜欢圣诞节的色彩：白雪，圣诞老人的红衣，绿的圣诞树，酥黄的火鸡，温馨的灯光。在没有宗教背景的我看来，圣诞节是一个西方人家人团聚，亲朋间情感交流的好日子。它给我的印象是温暖与温馨。
希望我们的传统节日也能有这样的普及面^^

湖塘桥

Fun, quirky & strange Christmas traditions around the world

Bring your roller skates to Caracas, Venezuela, where they block the streets on Christmas Eve so that locals can roller-skate to church for Christmas service.

Don't swat the tree in Ukraine, where a fake spider and spider's web are placed on Christmas trees for decoration.  It is believed that a spider web found on Christmas morning is a sign of good luck for the coming year.

On Christmas Eve in Norway, all the brooms in the house are hidden because it was believed that witches and evil spirits would come out on this night to steal their brooms for riding.

Make a wish when stirring in all the ingredients for Christmas pudding in England - but it will only come true if you stir in a clockwise direction.

In Japan, it's considered bad luck to give red Christmas cards or envelopes as funeral notices are usually written in red.

In Italy, locals celebrate Christmas - not by decorating a Christmas tree with tinsel and ornaments - but by decorating small wooden pyramids with fruit.

When in Belgium, you celebrate two Santa Clauses: St. Nicholas, the Santa that spies on children to sort them into naughty and nice; and Pere Noel, who does all the Christmas delivery work.

In Brazil, it's believed that Santa lives in Greenland, that the shepherds that sought out Jesus were actually women, and that the animals in the manger spoke when Jesus was born.

The oldest Christmas tradition in Estonia takes place on Christmas Eve when the whole family goes to visit the sauna together.

In Latvia, "Big Zimmer," the Latvian Santa Claus, brings presents not on just one day, but 12 days in a row.  It's also here in Latvia that the Christmas tree tradition was first celebrated, although the holiday doesn't celebrate Jesus, but the re-birth of the Sun Maiden.

In the town of Urbania, Italy, an ugly witch named La Befana parades around town on her broomstick bringing gifts to children on Christmas Day.  The tradition is believed to have come from the Vatican - who couldn't prove the existence of Santa Claus so decided to tell children that it was witches that delivered the presents.

During the Middle Ages, boar's head was known as a traditional Christmas dish.  The custom began when a boar attached a student who saved himself by forcing Aristotle's books into the boar's mouth.  The boar choked to death and the student cut off his head and brought it back to college.

In coastal towns like Brighton and in London's Serpentine Lake in England, many communities take part in a Christmas Day swim in frigid waters.

On Christmas Eve in Remedios, Cuba, locals celebrate Parrandas, a religious festival remembering the priests who would send altar boys into the streets to bang on pots and pans to awaken the townspeople for mass at midnight.

[ 本帖最后由 湖塘桥 于 2009-12-26 03:55 编辑 ]