WHAT IS CHRISTMAS | AND DO YOU KNOW WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?

WHAT IS CHRISTMAS | AND DO YOU KNOW WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?

The Living Legend

Ahmad Javed Kamran Amiri

Dated: Tuesday 17^th December 2019

Christmas is one of the sacred days of the year that commemorate the birth of Jesus, but the Christmas celebration is birth of Christ in general it has been influenced by secular winter festivals such as Saturnalia.

Christmas traditions include installing the traditional image of Christmas, decorating the Christmas tree, exchanging gifts, greetings and Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, and is centered on promoting goodwill, generosity, kindness, and family gatherings.

Christmas is traditionally celebrated on 25^th December, but some Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate 7^th January as Christmas, which is the same as 25^th December on the Julian calendar. These dates are merely traditional and do not appear to be the true date of Christ's birth on such a day.

Christmas is celebrated in many countries around the world, and it has to do with how Christians and Western culture diffuse and combine with winter festivities. Despite the widespread influence of American and British Christmas traditions seen in films, literature, television, and other media, many traditions of Christmas celebration are still held in various areas.

It is also mentionable that the celebration of Christmas influenced in Asian countries and it celebrating annually in some of the Asian countries especially in India, Pakistan, Iran and somehow about 2% or 3% in Afghanistan.

Pre-Christmas Winter Festivities

In many cultures, winter celebration is considered a very popular holiday, partly due to the decline in winter farming, Easterly being the most important celebration in the ecclesiastical calendar and Christmas being less important. Early churches, on the other hand, were protesting the church's birthday. The superiority of the Christmas celebration in modern times is in many ways reflected in the growing influence of the winter festive tradition, including the celebrations of Saturnalia, Natalis Solis Ivychetti, Yule.

In the Roman era, the celebration of Saturnalia was the most famous winter celebration and the time of rest, celebration, joy, and the end of formal rules. The celebration was held in honor of Saturn from December 17^th-24^th, but was reduced from seven to five days during the imperial period.

Natalis Solis Ivychetti was celebrated on 25^thDecember as "The Birth of the Unbeatable Sun" and included praise to the sun Gods and Lords. Algabalus the Roman Empire (218-222) was the founder of the celebration, whose popularity peaked in the Ariel era. 25^th December is also the date of the winter revolution, and this celebration showed that the sun was not defeated in winter. Many early Christian writers have attributed the sun's rebirth to Christ's birth, and Catholics have argued that the celebration of Sol Inuit is the date of Christmas and Christ.

The Yule celebration was held in late December (last days of December) and early January (first days of January) with the aim of honoring the God of thunder; a large stump of wood with the belief that any more thunder spark would indicate the number of pigs or calves born next year. The celebration continued until the carcass was completely burnt and occasionally cooked for 12 days. Since Northern Europe was one of the last places to convert to Christianity, their non-Christian celebrations had a profound effect on the shape of the Christmas celebration. The Scandinavians still call Christmas yol, which is the equivalent of Christmas in English and German.

Origins of Christmas

It is not clear exactly when and why 25^th December was attributed to the date of Christ's birth, as the New Testament does not mention any history. *** Tus Julius Africanus was the first Christian historian to begin describing world events to play a pivotal role in popularizing the idea that Christ was born on 25^th December. It is nine months after the birth of Mary (25^th March). On the other hand, 25^th March is the date of the spring equinox and is considered the creation of Adam.

Christians in the early days of Christ's rise believed that 25^th March was the date of Christ's crucifixion.

The date of the birth of Christ (AS) was not initially inspired by the celebration. Tertullian did not regard early Christianity as an important celebration of the Roman Church in Africa. In year 245, the Greek philosopher and theologian, Origin, denounced the celebration of Christ's birth and stated that only sinners would celebrate their birthday.

The first mention of the Christmas celebration is found in the calendar of Philosophical, which was collected in Rome in the year 354.

 After the death of Emperor Valencia's advocate of the Arius beliefs in the Battle of Edirne in 378, the Christmas Eve celebrated in the east, but the process was more controversial in the fourth century, and after Gregory Nazianzus was appointed bishop in 381. The celebration vanished, and in the year 400, with the appointment of John Christostom, it was restored.

Medieval

Early medieval Christmas day was influenced by the celebration of Christ's baptism, and in the West, three Iranian astronomers were visiting the infant Christ. But the medieval calendar was influenced by the Christmas holidays. Christmas's prominence was strengthened after the reign of Charles, as his coronation was on Christmas Day on 800 and King William I of Britain on Christmas Day 1066.

In the middle of the middle Ages, Christmas holidays were so bold that events and historians repeatedly pointed out that many nobles and nobles were celebrating Christmas. King Richard II of England celebrates Christmas on 1377 with 28 cows and 3,000 sheep.

Note: Christmas is the 1^st Most Expensive Festival in United States of America which has yearly more than 6 billion US dollars expenditure.