By Rafael Rodríguez Prieto

CHRISTMAS

What is Christmas?Why do people celebrate Christmas?When do people celebrate Christmas?Where do people celebrate Christmas?What traditions do people do on

Christmas?

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Christmas is a holiday that celebrate the Jesus or Crist birth as the name mentions.

In Christmas we remember the day when our Saviour was born. That day Herodes sent soldiers to kill him but Maria and Jose run away from Belen going to Nazareth.

WHAT IS CHRISTMAS?

People celebrate Christmas because it is the day that the lord, God, save us sending Christ to Earth putting him in a virgin woman. Then, the three kings of Orient gave them gold, incense and myrrh.

WHY DO PEOPLE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?

People celebrate Christmas the twenty-fifth of December but we don’t know when Christ was born. So we are celebrating Christmas wrong day ! The day was chosen near the year 500 A.C.. We don’t know why people chose that day.

WHEN PEOPLE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?

Christmas is celebrated in countries like: Spain, USA, Canada, Germany , France… but mainly Christmas is celebrate by all the Christians: we celebrate the day when Jesus was born that after will make our religion, and some Jew people : some Jew people celebrate Hanuká and Christmas because Jesus was Jew.

WHERE DOES PEOPLE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?

There are traditions like Christmas tree but on our days, the Christmas day is a day of spending money and not a day of celebration cause the lord has born.

The nativity is another tradition, we put some little figures with forms of the people who were on Belem that day.

Putting socks stuck at the fireplace is another tradition.

WHAT TRADITIONS DOES PEOPLE DO?