Christmas is a traditional festival that is celebrated in Spain cheerful and happy form together with loved ones and close friends. They are national holidays in which each region has its customs to enjoy to the fullest. But in general, all Spaniards are decorated for Christmas, buy gifts, decorate the house, parties are made, the best dishes are eaten and wishes for peace and prosperity for the new year are requested. Intimate dates are not to be missed, so from unComo.com's how Christmas is celebrated in Spain.
Christmas in Ecuador is a purely family and religious festival, it is the most important celebration of the year, as all families try to meet at dinner on December 24 where it is usual to eat turkey or pork main course and dessert pristine which rings are fried wheat flour dough, topped with brown sugar syrup.Christmas night, at 24h00, the gifts previously brought "Santa Claus" for children and adults are divided, they generally found under the Christmas tree and delivered by one of those present.In some houses one of the adults is disguised as Santa Claus and comes with gifts in a sack and distributed. That tradition was common in the sixties and seventies.For being a Catholic country Ecuador, a very special activity is the development of births or Bethlehem, and Prayer Novena of Baby Jesus that takes place every night from December 16.This is a deeply rooted and families pray at their respective homes the eight days preceding the Noche Buena (24). That day, corresponding to the last of the ninth, they pray at home where they are to celebrate the dinner.Another custom is still kept some families have blocked the Child Jesus, during the days before the Dec. 24, thereby simulating birth, which is what is celebrated.Groups are also organized to pray the novena, performing every day in a different group home, the children sing Christmas carols accompanied by small musical instruments.One popular children's activity is the "letter to the Child Jesus, to be written by children at least a month before Christmas and where they report having behaved properly, so include a list of things they would like Christmas Day.
Christmas, also colloquially called "Passover" is one of the most important festivals of Christianity, along with Easter and Pentecost. This feast, which commemorates the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem is celebrated on December 25 in the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, in some Protestant communities and in most of the Orthodox Churches. Instead, it is celebrated on January 7 in other Orthodox churches as the Russian Orthodox Church or the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, who did not accept the reform made to the Julian calendar to switch to calendar known as Gregorian, a name derived from the reformer Pope Gregory XIII. December 25 is a holiday in many countries celebrated by millions of people around the world and also by many non-Christians.
English speakers use the term Christmas, which means' mass (mass) of Christ. In some Germanic languages such as German, the party is called Weihnachten, that means `night of blessing '. Christmas parties are proposed, as its name suggests, celebrate the Nativity (ie birth) of Jesus of Nazareth. There are several theories about how they came to celebrate Christmas on December 25, which arise from different ways of investigating, according to some known facts, which date Jesus would have been born.
