Christmas

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Christmas, Weihnachten

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Mid-Winter
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

Christmas is the celebration of the Birth of Jesus Christ. It is celebrated in Christian Communities all over the world.
Here we can only highlight some of the different customs and activities during this time.

Gabi Greve

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Some nice Christmas web pages...

Winter Santa Scene (with music)
http://jsmagic.net/emissarypage8/


Singing Christmas Tree
http://wilstar.com/xmas/xmasjuke.htm


The Christmas tree site has all my favorite carols you can sing with including, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus! This will be found at the Mistletoe .

Michael Baribeau

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Worldwide use

Australia and Southern Hemisphere

kigo for mid-summer

　
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Denmark

The main festival of the year in Denmark is Christmas. Danes celebrate Christmas Eve on December 24 and prolong the Christmas through December 25 and 26. Though many longstanding traditions have disappeared over the years, many traditions such as the family gathering at Christmas, lighting Christmas tree candles, and the month-long calendar candy are still celebrated today.

On Christmas Eve, after a splendid of traditional goose, Danish families light candles on the beautifully decorated Christmas tree. After dancing round the tree, singing traditional songs, the members of the family exchange gifts. Some of the family will probably have attended church services in the afternoon.

Christmas in Danish is called Jul, an old Nordic word for "feast", and it is the biggest holiday in Denmark with traditions that go back centuries.

http://www.californiamall.com/holidaytraditions/traditions-Denmark.htm

My family celebrates our Danish heritage with Chicken and dumpling soup for Christmas Eve dinner...I learned how to make it when I was eight years old. Every year, we bring out my great grandmothers letter to my mother with the recipe on it, even though we know the recipe by heart.
Kate Steere

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Trinidad and Tobago

Here in T&T iwe are in the 12th day of what our radio stations call One Hundred Days of Christmas.

Gillena Cox


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Things found on the way

Haibun by Isabelle Prondzynski

Christmas greetings from Ireland!

We decorated the Christmas tree, fresh from our woods, on 23 December, ready for Christmas Eve festivities the following night :

Christmas tree
among sweets and tinsel
a spider's web

It was the first white Christmas for years -- we woke up on Christmas Day to gently falling snow. This has thawed slowly and frozen over, so the Christmas moon tonight is reflected by what remains of it -- a beautiful sight.

Christmas moon
dogs out sniffing
in the snow

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German Link, partly in English, whith many Christmas customs and activities.
http://www.global-christmas.com/index.html

Christmas Markets
http://www.global-christmas.com/scripts_de/markets/fset_markets.html

Click on this map to see the Christmas World
http://www.global-christmas.com/scripts_de/world/fset_world.html

India
More than one billion people live in India. The most common religion is the Hinduism (about 80 per cent of the population is Hindu) and the Islam (about 11 per cent). Other religious sects, for example Christian denominations, are not very important in per cent. But expressed in figures are quite a few Christians in India and so there are certain Christmas customs on the subcontinent as well.
http://www.global-christmas.com/scripts_en/world/asia/main_india01.html

Israel
http://www.global-christmas.com/scripts_en/world/asia/main_israel01.html

Tibet
http://www.global-christmas.com/scripts_en/world/asia/main_tibet01.html

Check out the other countries from here.

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HAIKU

Danish dumplings
made from scratch
every year

Kate Steere

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Heiligabend -
keinen Parkschein
gezogen

Christmas eve -
forgot to get
a parking ticket
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

Gerd Börner

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after Christmas
she gives a used card
to her co-homeless friend

Vic Gendrano
http://www.geocities.com/vgendrano/index.html

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Christmas mass
bells boom at midnight
Christ is born

Christmas service
children hugging their
parents and toys

Isabelle Prondzynski

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christmas morning
the full moon sets
at dawn

christmas eve
a smiling moon
sets

susan delphine delaney

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Related words

***** > . Christmas Tree

***** > Christmas Moon

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