The Christmas celebration all Over the World
People all over the world are celebrate the Christmas. Christmas is truly a global celebration! Although the traditions and foods associated with it vary with climate, culture, country-even calendar - the spirit of the day transcends all such differences.
In Northern Europe, overindulgence at the dinner table, stringing Christmas lights, exchanging gifts, even burning the Yule log are traditions that can be traced back to the ancient Roman celebration of Saturnalia and various winter solstice rituals. Pre-Christian symbols of spirit worship, such as the Christmas tree, mistletoe, holly, and ivy, have become Yuletide standards.
Since at least the 1930s and especially since World War II, Japan has celebrated Christmas as a precursor to New Year celebrations. Lovers treat each other to lavish gifts and children await Uncle Chimney on Christmas Eve. And there's no problem cooking that big dinner. Parents have been known to wait for hours lined up outside the local Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise to buy a bucket of chicken for their eager children.
It is common for the countries of the southern hemisphere feature fresh fruits and vegetables at their Christmas feasts. For while the north marks the winter solstice, in the Zulu homelands and Peru the Christmas celebration overlaps the festivities associated with the summer harvest and the pre-Christian rituals of the native people. Leafy greens, young corn, fresh fruit, and ice cream often accompany to the roast.
No one knows the exact date of Christ's birth is the basis for the Christmas celebration. For over 300 years it was a movable feast since early Christians tended to celebrate Christmas in conjunction with Hanukkah, attempting to mesh the old Julian and Hebrew calendars. Pope Julius I set the December 25 date on in an effort to provide continuity from year to year and to counterbalance the various pre Christian festivals in competition with the spread of Catholicism. Although many of the Orthodox or Eastern Rite Christian churches have celebrated Christmas on December 25 since the middle of the fifth century, some chose to keep their festivities on the traditional date of January 6 or 7, known also as the Epiphany.
Whatever the date or the practices associated with it, Christmas continues to be the most universally celebrated holiday around the globe, transcending language, culture, and even religious beliefs.
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