Christmas is a great holiday established to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem. Christmas is one of the most important Christian holidays and a public holiday in more than 100 countries around the world. On January 6, at 12 o'clock in the morning, a solemn service begins in Orthodox churches. And on January 7, it is customary to congratulate friends and family on this bright holiday.
The significance of this holy night is so great that even the course of modern history and our chronology are from the Nativity of Christ. And in Russia this Holiday was especially loved.
Christmas Eve got the name "Christmas Eve", and this word comes from the ritual food eaten on this day - sochiv, porridge made from red wheat or barley, rye, buckwheat mixed with honey and with almond and poppy juice.
Food on Christmas Eve could not be taken until the first star, in memory of the Star of Bethlehem, announced to the Magi and the Nativity of the Savior. And with the onset of dusk, when the first star lit up, they sat down at the table and shared wafers, wishing each other all the best and bright.
Christmas begins with Christmas - continuous holidays that last until Epiphany Christmas Eve and are accompanied by festivities, visits to family and friends, masquerades.
From time immemorial, on Christmastide in Russia, it was customary to dress up, arrange funny games, go home, wake up sleeping people, congratulate everyone they meet with the turn of the sun for the summer, and later, after the adoption of Christianity, Merry Christmas, joke, sing songs. The carols ended with general fun, roller coasters, a general feast.
Christmas divination is varied and numerous. Girls were engaged in them, sometimes under the guidance of older women. And they were interested, first of all, whether they will marry next year or remain "in girls", whether they will be rich or poor, in general, whether they will live or die. Very many fortune-telling is associated with the search for the betrothed.
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Today close relatives and friends come to you, along with gifts they bring joy and must exclaim at the entrance: Merry Christmas! Wherever you meet this bright holiday, wherever fate throws you, the main thing is one thing: Christmas is a day symbolizing the beginning, a holiday that brings light and peace, a day when you need to think about your place in life and make a promise to become taller and better. Christmas is a holiday of light and color, a holiday of all-conquering love for all people.
It snows on Christmas
Falls like the grace of God
It is snowing and magic can happen on this day …
It snows, relieving pain from the icy land, You put your hand to him, the white angel will land.