Christmas is celebrated in several parts of the world on 25 December. Protestant and Roman Catholic churches grasp Christmas Day services on 25 December. January 6 and 7 christmas traditions was celebrated by eastern churches like ethiopian orthodox church in which the christmas feast was known as timkat, russian orthodox church and the armenian bible church. These special christmas traditions include ritual programs, house parties and celebrations at that time.
History of Christmas festival attractions have started over 400 years back. Before the Christmas child was born christmas traditions were organized. 12 days Christmas will celebrate with huge bright fires, giving gifts to one another, Christmas carolers doing carnival parades and singing songs while passing through one house to another house. The holiday feast starts with tracking back the churches to the earliest Mesopotamians. New Year celebrations also begin with the christmas celebrations.
The birth of Jesus
Christmas is the festival of the birth of Jesus Christ, Christians consider that Jesus is the son of God, the anointed sent from Heaven to save the world.
Christmas story tells of the birth of Jesus in a stable, sleeping in the feeding through of animals in Bethlehem, the angels played three important roles in christmas story by announcing the birth of jesus in the fields, and the wise men from the east who visiting the stable is magi and offered the gifts to the newborn child.
The origins of Christmas
In 336 AD christmas was used to celebrate on 25 december which was conformed by the roman almanac, even though it was almost 600 years later that the churches twisted a liturgy - a service for public worship - for the occasion.
The selection for christmas date have been influenced by the northern hemisphere winter solstice, as well as earliest pagan rituals that coincide with the solstice. These rituals included the Halcyon Days in Greece, a period of peaceful and friendliness when it was believed the sea was peaceful for birds to arrange their eggs; and the Roman celebration of Saturnalia, a festival of the god Saturn, which concerned as wild parties, the exchange of gifts and the provisional suspension of social divisions between slaves and masters.
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