"Christmas" is the abbreviation of "Christ Mass". Mass is a kind of liturgy of the church. Jero is a religious festival. We regard it as the birthday of Jesu to celebrate, and thus is also named Christmas. On this day, all the Christian churches of the world held a special weekly ceremony. But there are a lot of Christmas celebrations and religions. Exchange gifts, send Christmas cards, which makes Christmas become a day in Tiantian.
Christmas is the greatest holiday in Christian. At the beginning of the 4th century, January 6 is the double festival of each church in the East of the Roman Empire, called "The main display" Epiphany, also known as "showing the festival", the emperor, the world shows himself to the world. At that time, there were only the exception of the church of the cold, there was only the birth of Jesus and did not commemorate the suffering of Nats. Later, historians found in the calendar of the Roman Christians to record: "Christ's birth in Bethlehem in Judah." After research, it is generally considered to be Christmas on December 25. The Roman Church in 336 AD) was about 375 AD to Xiao Yawa, and the AD 430 was passed to Egyptian Alexander, the church of Nauro accepted the most, and Armenian church still insisted On January 6th, the main development is the birthday of the Nature. On December 25, it was the birthday of Persian Sun God (ie bright God), Mithra, is a pagan festival, and the sun god is also one of the gods of the Romans. This day is the winter solstice festival of the Roman colleague. The pagans who worship the sun god regard this day as the hope of spring, and everything is beginning to recover. For this reason, the Roman church chose this day as Christmas. This is one of the measures of the church in the early days of the church. Later, although most churches were Christmas on December 25, they were uniform, and the specific date was unified, so they were as Christmas on January 6th from December 24th to the second year. Christmas Tide, the church can celebrate Christmas within this festival according to the local specific situation. Since December 25, he was recognized as Christmas on December 25. The main display of January 6 will only commemorate Jesus, but the Catholic Church is set as "Three Kings," in January 6. When Jesus lives, the Oriental Three Kings (ie, three doctors) come to the story. With the broad spread of Christian, Christmas has become an important festival for each sect Christian, and even the majority of non-Christian masses. In many countries in Europe and the United States, people pay great attention to this festival, together with the New Year, and the traffic and grand will have more than the New Year, become a holiday of the whole people. The main commemoration of December 25th is related to the legend of the birth.
Jesu's birth is a story, Jesu is born because of the Holy Spirit, from the children of Mary. God is more sending the messenger to Brewl in the dream, Joseph, told him not to be due to Malia unmarried pregnancy, but it is necessary to be friends with her, name the child "Jesu", meaning that he wants him to bring the people from sin Save.
When Mary is going to be born, the Roman government has underdened, and all the people to Bethlei will declare the household registration. Joseph and Mary have had to follow. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the sky was fainted, helplessly failed to find the property, only a horse shed can be temporarily rested. Just then, Jesu is born! So Maria only on the gullet and gave birth to Jesu. The descendants were the birth of Jesu, and she was a Christmas, and I watched the Mass, commemorating the birth of Jedu.
Christmas was a birthday of Jesu on December 25, but no one knows in real birthday. In the 19th century, the Christmas card is popular, the appearance of Santa Claus, Christmas is also popular.
