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Many children think that Christmas is the day when Santa Claus is born.Because that day Santa Claus will wear a red Christmas hat, with a big white beard, red cotton-padded clothes and red boots, and present gifts on Christmas Eve. Legend has it that every night on December 12, there will be a mystery. People drove on a sleigh pulled by nine reindeer, went door to door from the chimney into the house, and then secretly put gifts in the socks on the bedside of the good children, or piled them under the Christmas tree by the fireplace.
In fact, Christmas comes from the Christian custom. It celebrates that the glorious and noble God, in order to love the world, made his only son Jesus Christ incarnate and came to the world as a man, and shared suffering and redeemed the world with others.Christmas is to celebrate the birth of the Son, Jesus Christ.In the West, Christmas is not only celebrated on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. As early as four Sundays before Christmas, the custom of celebrating the birth of Jesus has begun every Sunday. This period of time is called the "advent period."
 圣诞节是基督教世界最大的节日。4世纪初，1月6日是罗马帝国东部各教会纪念耶稣降生和受洗的双重节日、称为“主显节”（亦称“显现节”）即上帝通过耶稣向世人显示自己。当时只有耶路撒冷的教会例外，那里只纪念耶稣的诞生而不纪念耶稣的受洗。后来历史学家们在罗马基督徒习用的日历中发现公元354年12月25日页内记录着：“基督降生在犹大的伯利恒。”
    After research, it is generally believed that December 12th is Christmas, which may have started in the Roman church in 25 AD, spread to Antioch in Asia Minor about 336 AD, and spread to Alexandria, Egypt, and the church in Jerusalem in 375 AD. Accepted the latest, but the Armenian church still insists that the Epiphany on January 430th is the birthday of Jesus.
    December 12 was originally the birthday of Mithra, the Persian sun god (the god of light). It was a pagan festival. At the same time, the sun god was also one of the Roman gods.This day is also the winter solstice in the Roman calendar. The pagans who worship the sun god regard this day as the hope of spring and the beginning of the recovery of all things.Probably for this reason, the Roman Church chose this day as Christmas.This was one of the measures taken by the church to try to Christianize pagan customs in the early days.Later, although most churches accepted December 25th as Christmas, the calendars used by churches in different regions were different, and the specific dates could not be unified, so they set December 12th to January 25th of the following year as Christmas Day. During the feast, churches in various places can celebrate Christmas during this feast according to local conditions.Since December 12 was recognized as Christmas by most churches, the Epiphany on January 24 only commemorated the baptism of Jesus, but the Catholic Church has designated January 1 as the "Feast of the Three Kingdoms" to commemorate the The story of the three kings of the East (three doctors) who came to worship when Jesus was born.
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