圣诞节英语作文：圣诞节夜景

圣诞节英语作文圣诞节夜景

　　Christmas is a Christian holiday held on December 25 hich celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Eastern Orthodox Churches, hich use the Julian Calendar to determine feast days, celebrate on January 7 by the Gregorian Calendar. Both dates are rely traditional and neither is thought to be the actual birthdate of Jesus. Christ's birth, or nativity, is said to fulfill Old Testant prophecies ncerning the ing of a ssiah, or savior.

　　The ord Christmas is derived Middle English Christemasse and from Old English Cristes m?sse.It is a ntraction aning "Christ's mass". The na of the holiday is often shortened to Xmas because Roman letter "X" resembles the Greek letter Χ (chi), an abbreviation for Christ.

　　In Western untries, Christmas has bee the most enomically significant holiday of the year. The popularity of Christmas can be traced in part to its status as a inter festival. Many cultures have their most important holiday in inter because there is less agricultural ork to do at this ti. Examples of inter festivals that are believed by so to have influenced Christmas include the pre-Christian festivals of Yule and Saturnalia.

　　In Western culture, the holiday is characterized by the exchange of gifts among friends and family mbers, so of the gifts being attributed to Santa Claus (also knon as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, and Father Frost). Hoever, various local and regional Christmas traditions are still practiced, despite the idespread influence of Arican, British and Australian Christmas motifs disseminated by film, popular literature, television, and other dia.