How do foreigners celebrate Christmas? A little knowledge about the most important Christmas festival in the West

Christmas 2016 is coming soon. Want to know how foreigners celebrate Christmas? What are the traditional activities of Christmas? Next, let’s briefly learn about it.

How do foreigners celebrate Christmas?

1. Generally, when foreigners celebrate Christmas, they will decorate their homes, streets, churches, etc. with various items in the Christmas atmosphere before Christmas arrives.
2. Decorating the Christmas tree is one of the most famous traditions of celebrating Christmas. People bring an evergreen plant such as a pine tree into the house or outdoors, decorate it with Christmas lights and colorful decorations, and put an angel or star on the top of the tree.

3. Before Christmas Eve, family members who are working away from home will return home one after another, and those at home will prepare Christmas cards, write blessings on them, and send them to relatives who cannot return home, or to distant relatives and friends. The custom of writing Christmas cards is very popular in the United States and Europe.
4. Before the Christmas dinner begins, Western countries prepare traditional foods for Christmas Eve, such as: British roast turkey, American corn porridge, French log cake, German gingerbread, etc.

5. After the Christmas dinner, the family will sit around the fireplace, chatting and enjoying the family happiness. Some young friends will attend Christmas parties, where they sing and dance, play games, make friends, etc.
6. When it is almost time to go to bed, children will hang their socks by the bed and wait to receive gifts the next morning. Wearing a Santa hat to sleep at night is also one of the customs.
7. After the children go to bed, the adults put the Christmas gifts for the children in Christmas stockings or next to their beds.