以圣诞节为主题的英语作文 有关圣诞节的英语小短文

有关圣诞节的英语小短文  

有关圣诞节的英语小短文 Christmas
The Feast of Christmas
It is not easy to pin-point the origins of the Christmas feast
today the more important feast of the Christmas season in most western Christian churches. One can only say for certain that the birth of Jesus Christ was being celebrated in Rome by the year 336 A.D.; afterwards the feast was celebrated in other Christian churches throughout the world.
Why it was celebrated on December 25th is another question. No date for the birth of Jesus can be found in the New Testament
which is concerned more with the question "Who is Jesus?" than the date of his birth. Early Christian speculation about his birth date was influenced by the symbolism of the changing seasons
then popular in religious thought
which paid careful attention to the equinoxes and solstices of the sun. Christian scholars speculated that Jesus was conceived at the spring equinox (March 25th) and therefore was born on December 25th
the date of the winter solstice.
In many of the Christian churches
March 25th is still the Feast of the Annunciation
when the Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was to be the mother of Jesus.
Possible impluse for the feast of Christmas may have came too from the establishment of the pagan feast of the "Unconquered Sun-God" by the Emperor Aurelian in 274 A.D. to be celebrated on December 25
the day of the winter solstice in Rome and throughout the empire. In response
Christians could celebrate the feast of the "Sun of righteousness" (Malachi 4
2)
Jesus Christ
who called himself " the light of the world."

Father Christmas
It is said that in the year of 300 AD
there was a kind old man and his name was Saint Nicholas. He was always ready to help the poor and often gave presents to them.
Today
Father Christmas is an imaginary figure
but nearly all young children believe in him. They think he is a happy old man with a long white beard and a long red robe.
On the night of the enty-fourth of December every year
Father Christmas from some cold northern land es down the chimney of the fireplace to put presents by the beds of children or to fill their stockings. So when children go to bed that night
they hang up their stockings
and on Christmas morning they wake to find them full of presents. Of course
it's really their parents who fill the stockings.
Another name for Father Christmas is Santa Claus.
For today's Christian
the origin of Christmas is
and should be
the birth of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Bible. Nothing more and nothing less. However
most of what we witness on December 25th each year has absolutely nothing to do with that blessed day
which probably occurred in late summer or early fall about 2
000 years ago. In fact
most of the customs and traditions of Christmas actually pre-date the birth of Jesus
and many of them are downright deceptive in their meaning and origin. Anyway
who cares when Christ was born?
Christmas Day
the 25th of December
is the biggest festival(节日)celebrated in the Christian countries of the ough everyone enjoys Christmas Day
it is particularly enjoyed by children
who get very excited because of the presents they know they are going to l children believe that their presents are brought by Father Christmas(圣诞老人)er Christmas is a kind of old man who
the children are told
lives at the North travels through the sky on a sleigh(雪撬) which is pulled by reindeers(驯鹿) and loaded with(装满) ping on the roof of houses
he enters by climbing the chimney(烟囱) small children go to bed on Christmas Eve
they hang a stocking at the end of their r parents warn them not to try to look at Father Christmas
or he will not leave them they wake
they find their stockings filled with dren are very excited on Christmas morning and always wake up early.
Christmas is also a family any members of the family as possible gather to eat
play party games and watch the special Christmas programmes on TV.