On December 25 of each year we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, this day is known as Christmas. The word Christmas or ‘Christ Mass’ originally comes from the Old English name Cristes Maedde. It was in the year 440 AD that the Christian Church set December 25 as the date of celebration.

It is a special moment for the family. Many people who live in different towns, cities, or even countries will make the trip back home to spend the holiday season with their family.

On Christmas day they will have a family reunion and a big dinner that will consist of foods like turkey, Brussels sprouts, baked potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce.

Apparently, eating turkey on Christmas Day dates back to the days of the Tudors and Henry VIII: he was the first man to eat turkey on this day.

Sending Christmas cards is a big part of Christmas, with over a billion cards sent in the UK alone. There are many genres of cards ranging from relationship cards for mom, dad, brother, sister, etc. to the most humorous type for friends and family who enjoy a good laugh.

People who buy cards for mom are often looking for the more traditional, long and meaningful Christmas card, while people who are looking for cards for dad tend to go for humor.

The rush to buy cards and gifts usually starts in late November, early December. The malls are so busy that sometimes it is impossible to move! Queues at stores are getting longer and sometimes a half-hour shopping trip can easily turn into half a day.

In recent years, with the development of the Internet and Internet retail businesses, it has never been easier to shop online for your Christmas cards and gifts, which means avoiding the busy crowds on the high street.

We usually start sending cards in early December and this continues through the 25th. By mid-December you will usually find that most homes will be decorated with a Christmas tree, fairy lights and hanging paper or aluminum foil around the living room.

Others go a step further and decorate garden trees and exterior walls with colored electric flashing lights and Christmas characters like Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extremely popular in the US and has been for quite some time.

Santa Claus also plays an important role in Christmas; photos are hung in the streets, he is on TV and kids can even go and sit on his lap at their local mall and tell him what gifts they would like. But where did he come from? Well, Santa Claus or ‘Papa Noel’ is based on a real person, Saint Nicholas.

It is believed that back in the 4th century AD, Nicholas was a very timid Christian leader from Myra and decided that he wanted to help the poor by giving them money but without knowing them.

It is said that one day he climbed onto the roof of a house and threw a bag full of money down the chimney, which landed in a stocking that a girl had hung to dry by the fire, which is where the tradition of Santa coming down the chimney. fireplace and put gifts in the children’s stockings comes.