Christmas is the most celebrated time of the year for Christians. It is the big celebration for the people belonging to Christian faith. It is wrong to guess that it is just celebrated amid the Christians. With world becoming a global village, Christmas festival is now celebrated in a number of countries across the world. Christmas celebration is done hugely by arranging big parties. Christians sing Christmas songs and play different games. They are totally involved in decorating their houses and a Christmas tree. They prepare special food during Christmas. They invite their relatives and friends for dinner on Christmas Eve. Christmas celebration and spring season comes at the same time. Both these bring pleasure to every Christian’s life.
Gift exchanging is an important part of Christmas celebration. Christians give gifts to their family members, friends and relatives. Christmas festival is celebrated with high spirits in different parts of our world. Even if, celebration mode, conventions and dates differ, spirit remains the similar everywhere. While many of us celebrate it as the festival spreading over a week, for some people, it is a month long festival, which begins with advent on Sunday next to 26th November and ends on 6th January with Epiphany feast.
Christians prepare for Christmas festival a month before. They light candles during Christmas. Talking about Indian Christmas customs, on the occasion of Christmas, Christians adorn mango, banana trees rather than conventional pine tree. They also adorn the churches with beautiful red flowers. Christmas is a celebration of humankind for Christians. Christmas is a major festival and has extraordinary significance in everybody’s life. In India, this festival has great meaning as India is well-known for its unity in diversity worldwide. The Christmas celebration shows that a lot of people belong to different regions even celebrate Christmas same as the Indian Christians celebrate.
Christians light miniature oil-burning lamps for the beautification. People clean their houses for giving it a beautiful look. Customs for celebrating Christmas differ in the huge vicinity of India. They give cute as well as lovely Christmas gifts to their relatives and family members. On Christmas Eve, Christmas gather together and celebrate it.
