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CHRISTMAS

Since the Middle Ages the English made the calls mummings, which are representations involving masked people. These works are traditional in schools and churches in small towns. Another custom is to hang mistletoe at the top. According to tradition, couples who stand under the mistletoe must be a kiss. It is also traditional stir the christmas pudding, a traditional dessert. The mixture should be stirred on the first Sunday of Advent for each family member in an east-west to commemorate the visit of the Magi to the Infant Jesus, while you make a wish in secret. December 26th is known as Boxing Day. That day open charity boxes of the parishes so that its contents be distributed to poor families. Approaches in England one of the most anticipated dates for all the English, which is none other than Christmas. For the English Christmas is a time to be with family, enjoying good food and feel the warmth of a good fireplace. It is a moment of peace to enjoy, celebrate and see what happened a year.
In many movies we see that the Christmas tradition in England is very peculiar. Is the time of year when families gather together completely and distant relatives come home for Christmas, as nougat, and celebrate Christmas all the family. It's a very nice time of the English, but there are those who do not like this time, since everything depends on your taste.
It’s very nice be able to see distant relatives, to reunite people who were not long and that every Christmas are back together again. All that is beautiful and many families appreciate the arrival of this time of year, beyond the gifts, meals and celebrations.

A typical tradition is to do a Christmas cracker.

Christmas crackers

Christmas crackers or bon-bons are an integral part of Christmas celebrations in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. They are also popular in Ireland. A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. The cracker is pulled by two people, and, much in the manner of a wishbone, the cracker splits unevenly. The split is accompanied by a small bang produced by the effect of friction on a chemically impregnated card strip (similar to that used in a cap gun).

 In one version of the tradition the person with the larger portion of cracker empties the contents from the tube and keeps them. In another each person will have their own cracker and will keep its contents regardless of whose end they were in. Typically these contents are a coloured paper hat or crown; a small toy or other trinket and a motto, a joke or piece of trivia on a small strip of paper. Crackers are often pulled before or after Christmas dinners or at parties.

There is a typical meal in UK:

Meal

In the UK's culinary present the famous Christmas pudding is a pudding made with homemade plum shape generally. Often the production of ginger cookies and various pastries popular with brandy butter, the trifle, the Christmas cake, the yule log, etc..Anglo-Saxon tradition marks the use of roasted turkey is popular as well as widespread in all countries of the Commonwealth.

Santa Claus

Santa Claus, is a figure which was derived from the Dutch figure of Sinterklaas, a historical, legendary figure who in many Western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24th or on his Feast Day, December 6 (Saint Nicholas Day). The legend may have part of its basis in hagiographical tales concerning the historical figure of gift giver Saint Nicholas. A nearly identical story is attributed by Greek and Byzantine folklore to Basil of Caesarea. Basil's feast day on January 1 is considered the time of exchanging gifts in Greece.

Santa Claus is the person who brings you lots of presents. Santa Claus goes for the sky with his sleigh and reindeers. He comes down for the chimney and leaves your presents under the christmas tree.

Christmas tree

The Christmas tree is a decorated evergreen coniferous tree, real or artificial, and a tradition associated with the celebration of Christmas. The tradition of decorating an evergreen tree at Christmas started in Livonia and Germany in the 16th century.The Christmas tree is traditionally brought into the home and decorated with Christmas lights (originally candles), ornaments, garlands, tinsel, and candy canes during the days around Christmas. An angel or star is placed at the top of the tree, representing the host of angels or the Star of Bethlehem from the Nativity.

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