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一、圣誕節(jié)的由來
The birth of Jesus had a story: In Nazareth, a city of Galilee. The virgin's name was Mary was betrothed to Joseph. Before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Joseph her husband was minded to put her away secretly. While he thought about these things, Gabriel, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and told him did not be afraid to take Mary as wife. And Mary will bring forth a Son, and he shall call his name, Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.
耶穌的出生是有一段故事的，耶穌是因著圣靈成孕，由童女馬利亞所生的。神更派遣使者加伯列在夢中曉諭約瑟，叫他不要因為馬利亞未婚懷孕而不要她，反而要與她成親，把那孩子起名為“耶穌”，意思是要他把百姓從罪惡中救出來。
Before Jesus births, Joseph and Mary came to Quintus was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. Joseph also went up out of Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and of the lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
當馬利亞快要臨盆的時候，羅馬政府下了命令，全部人民到伯利恒務必申報戶籍。約瑟和馬利亞只好遵命。他們到達伯利恒時，天色已昏，無奈兩人未能找到旅館渡宿，只有一個馬棚可以暫住。就在這時，耶蘇要出生了！於是馬利亞唯有在馬槽上，生下耶穌。
And that, Christmas is the feast of the nativity of Jesus, is on 25th, December every year. But nobody know the actual birthday of Jesus. And the Christmas has become popular when Christmas cards appeared in 1846 and the concept of a jolly Santa Claus was first made popular in nineteenth Century.
圣誕節(jié)便始于十二月二十五日紀念耶蘇的誕生，但真實的誕生日就沒有人知道了。十九世紀，圣誕卡的流行、圣誕老人的出現(xiàn)，圣誕節(jié)也開始流行起來了。
The Christmas day is the Christianity world greatest holiday.why can decide as December 25 Christmas day? Because December 25 is Jesus's birthday. the westerner take red, green, white color as the Christmas color. What is red is the Christmas flower and the Christmas candle. What green is the Christmas tree. What red and white intersection is Santa Claus, he is the character who the Christmas day moves most receives welcome. In the West, acts Santa Claus is also one kind of custom. the Christmas song mainly has three, one is "Christmas Eve"; One is "Listens, Angel Newspaper Good news"; Third is "Bell Makes a sound Dingdong". the foreign country's Christmas day is equal to China's Spring Festival is equally important.
在圣誕節(jié)是基督教世界最大的holiday.why可定為12月25日圣誕節(jié)嗎?由于12月25日是耶穌的生日。西方人以圣誕色紅，綠，白三色。什么是粉紅色的有圣誕花和圣誕蠟燭。什么綠色的是圣誕樹。什么是紅色和白色相交圣誕老人，他是字符誰是圣誕節(jié)活動中最受歡迎的人物。在西方，扮演圣誕老人也是一種習俗。圣誕歌曲主要有三個，一個是"平安夜"，一個是"聽，天使報喜訊"，三是"貝爾發(fā)出聲音叮咚"。外國的圣誕節(jié)相當于中國的春節(jié)也同樣重要。
二、“圣誕快樂”英語怎么說?
“Happy Christmas”也是正確的表達，不過只有伊麗莎白二世才這么說。因為英國王室向來講究傳統(tǒng)，而Merry有“微醉的”的意思，說Merry Christmas會有失女王的身份，所以每次都會說“Happy Christmas”，久而久之，在英國就有許多人和女王一樣不再用merry這個詞了。
圣誕節(jié)為什么拼寫為“Xmas”？
三、圣誕老人相關故事
1、圣誕老人
圣誕老人為奧丁神后裔，也傳說稱圣誕老人由圣·尼古拉而來，所以圣誕老人也稱St.Nicholas。據(jù)說他原是小亞細亞每拉城的主教，名叫圣尼古拉，死后被尊為圣徒，是一位身穿紅袍、頭戴紅帽的白胡子老頭。每年圣誕節(jié)他駕著鹿拉的雪橇從北方而來，由煙囪進入各家，把圣誕禮物裝在襪子里掛在孩子們的床頭上或火爐前。所以，西方人過圣誕節(jié)時，父母把給孩子的圣誕禮物裝在襪子里，圣誕夜時掛在孩子們的床頭上。第二天，孩子們醒來后的第一件事就是在床頭上尋找圣誕老人送來的禮物。
2、圣誕襪
It is said that there was a goodness man went broke his domain. He lived a hard life and he has three daughters. The three daughters were being married but he didn't have money to buy dower for his daughters. On the happy Chrismas Eve three girls went to bed early. They didn't know that their father was so worried. At last the Chrismas father decided to help them . He besprinkled gold through the stack and the gold fell into the socks of the man's daughters. They lived a happy life from then on... Chrismas socks was origined by this.
It is said that there was a farmer served a poor boy on a cold windy Chrismas Eve and gave him a big chrisemas meal. The boy cut a Fir tree's branch and inserted it into the earth.He said, "every year this time. there will be many presents in this branch. I wish I can pay back to your favor by this beautiful Fir tree. " After the boy left, the farmer discovered that the branch had grow up as a big tree. Then he realized that the boy was an envoy of the god. This is the origin of the chrismas day. In western countries, Whatever you are, everyone will prepare a chrismas tree to increase the happiness of the chrismas day. Chrismas trees are made of evergreen tree like Fir trees and they represent the long lives.People put candles,flowers,toys,stars on the tree and they put chrismas present on the tree. On Chrismas Eve,people sing and dance happily and they enjoy themselves around the tree.
另一個傳說記載。據(jù)說有一位農(nóng)民在一個風雪交加的圣誕夜里接待了一個饑寒交迫的小孩，讓他吃了一頓豐盛的圣誕晚餐，這個孩子告別時折了一根杉樹枝插在地上并祝福說：“年年此日，禮物滿枝，留此美麗的杉村，報答你的好意。”小孩走后，農(nóng)民發(fā)現(xiàn)那樹枝竟變成了一棵小樹，他才明白自己接待的原來是一位上帝的使者。這個故事就成為圣誕樹的來源。在西方，不論是否基督徒，過圣誕節(jié)時都要準備一棵圣誕樹，以增加節(jié)日的歡樂氣氛。圣誕樹一般是用杉柏之類的常綠樹做成，象征生命長存。樹上裝飾著各種燈燭、彩花、玩具、星星，掛上各種圣誕禮物。圣誕之夜，人們圍著圣誕樹唱歌跳舞，盡情歡樂。
