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| After Easter, Christmas is the most important holiday in Christianity. Christmas in the United States includes many traditions derived from the many immigrant countries: lighting the yule log (Scandinavia), hanging sprigs of mistletoe (England), decorating the chimney with poinsettias (Mexico), or decorating a tree ( Germany). |
| Christmas ornaments Numerous colorful fairy lights all around the house, reindeer sleighs lit up with bright lightbulbs and Santa Claus in the front yard, all this is available in America from the beginning of December. |
| Christmas tree Depending on taste, large Christmas trees, usually decorated with electric candles and colorful Christmas decorations, or small artificial Christmas trees are set up in the living room. |
| Christmas presents under the Christmas tree
In many areas it is customary to put up the Christmas tree already festively decorated in the Advent season. By Christmas, the well-wrapped Christmas presents for the whole family are gathering under the tree, piece by piece, and as the number of packages increases, so does the excitement for Christmas. The joint guessing what is in the individual packages belongs in the pre-Christmas period and of course everyone tries to camouflage their gifts with the packaging or even to mislead the others.
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| Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve plays a minor role in North America. On this evening, many families prepare a meal and the children hang their Christmas stockings on the fireplace or on the banister so that "Santa Claus" fills them with presents until the next morning, provided of course that the dear little ones are well-behaved throughout the year have been. Some Christian families also attend the "Midnight Mass" in the church.
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| Christmas Day (December 25)
December 25th is the culmination of the Christmas celebrations. There's a lot of celebration going on there.
All family members unpack their presents, which "Santa Claus" has not only placed in the stockings, but also under the decorated Christmas tree. And after the hustle and bustle, the "Christmas Dinner" is served.
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| Christmas Dinner
In the United States, Christmas dinner is traditionally roasted turkey with vegetables and various sauces. As a dessert z. Examples include Christmas pudding with brandy sauce, mint tarts and cakes filled with dried fruit. |
| Santa Claus
American children believe that Santa Claus lives at the North Pole and oversees the making and wrapping of all Christmas gifts there throughout the year. On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus harnesses his eight reindeer to his sleigh and flies from house to house at night to bring gifts to all the children. He comes down the chimney and fills the stockings hanging in front of the fireplace or puts the presents under the Christmas tree.
His reindeer names are: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph
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| Story of Santa Claus
Today's popular myth of Santa Claus, who travels in a flying sleigh pulled by reindeer, secretly climbs into houses through the chimney and distributes presents there, goes back to the poem The Night before Christmas, published anonymously in 1823. The author also names his reindeer in the poem: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. Rudolph was only introduced in 1939 through a poem by Robert L. May, which provided the template for the well-known Christmas carol Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Johnny Marks. |
