next year will be blessed, if bread, salt and fire will be on the christmas table

If the sky is starry in Christmas night, then will be rich harvest in next year. If the sky is cloudy, will be crop failure.

Next year will be blessed, If bread, salt and fire will be on the Christmas table.

If snowstorm is on Christmas, will be much honey next year.

If there is a lot of ice-ferns in Christmas, will be rich harvest next year.

You can’t get your gift until you have recited poem about Christmas

It is one of presents, which you can get in a lottery

We can’t imagine Christmas without gingerbreads

How we get enough money in next year? We just put fishes scales into purse!

It was our christmas tree in

last year

If you want healthy teeth, you have run 3 times around your house barefooted

We always put presents under Christmas tree

Another Christmas tree in our home

In Latvia the Christmas celebration is know as Ziemassvetki or winter festival.

Latvia celebrates Christmas on December 25, but Christmas Eve is

December 24.

In Latvia the Christmas begins with the Advent

season.

Advent wreaths can be seen everywhere as

Latvians busily shop for Christmas presents for

family and friends.

Christmas gifts

Latvia is closely associated with the Christmas tree, and some legends say it was in Riga that

the first Christmas tree was decorated in the beginning of the

16th century.

Christmas tree decorations

On Christmas Eve the family gathers around

the tree and sings traditional Christmas

carols.

Traditional foods served during this time include

braised cabbage,pork, pig's snout, pig's feet, beans, whole grains, peas,also

gingerbreads, and mandarin's

Braised cabbage

Peas

Beans

Gingerbreads

Mandarin's

Gifts are exchanged following the meal.In order to get a present you have

to recite a short poem while standing next to the

Christmas tree!

Christmas Eve is a celebration of the birth of Jesus, but it is also a celebration of the Winter Solstice, the time after December 24th when the days become longer and the nights become shorter again.

If there is lot of snow in Christmas, will be much rain about Midsummer Day.