Christmas around the world

By Derron Clarke

Christmas is celebrated all around the world

SPANISH

FRENCH

CHINESE

POLISH

Here in St Monica's we learn about some of these

languages.

ITAILIAN

Here is a PowerPoint on how these countries celebrate there Christmas

Every country celebrates

Christmas in there own way

Poland Christmas in Poland starts on

November the 12 th

It lasts till January the 6th or

February the 2ndIn Poland Christmas is often called Gwiazdka

which means "Little Star". 

Polish people celebrate Christmas when the first star appears in the sky on Christmas Eve which is called "Festival of the Star".

All that day the family have to wait

until the firs

t star appears to eat -

then the feasting starts! Yum

The polish feast

What a feast it is! Their Christmas dinner is soup, fish, honey and noodles with poppy seeds, dumplings with sauerkraut and mushrooms. For dessert they have cakes, fruit and nuts. 

At midnight they are summoned to the church by the bells. Most of the Polish people like to go to Pasterka or "The Shepherd's Mass". The church is brightly lighted and decorated with Christmas trees and an elaborate creche.

Church

A Chinese Christmas

中國聖誕節阿

China中國

Christians in China celebrate by lighting their houses with beautiful paper lanterns and decorating their Christmas trees, which they call "Trees of Light," with paper chains, paper flowers, and paper lanterns. Chinese Children hang muslin stockings and await a visit from Santa Claus, whom they call Dun Che Lao Ren (dwyn-chuh-lau-oh-run) which means "Christmas Old Man.".

In Hong Kong, the figure who visits children is known as Lan Khoong or Dun Che Lao Ren. Which is father christmas

There are church services given in Chinese as well as English. Children send Christmas cards depicting the Holy Family in a Chinese setting. Public areas are decorated with Nativities, poinsettias, streamers, and paper

chains.

A boy goes up to a Christmas tree made of 4,500 cans of preserved food, on show at the Hong Kong International Christmas Fair, on Saturday, Nov. 26 2005. The tree was built over four days by 10 people and organizers said it's the first of its kind in Asia.

聖誕節是一段特別時間

Christmas is a special time

English Christmas

A Traditional English Christmas Dinner

The Christmas Dinner is the main Christmas meal and it is usually eaten at mid-day or early afternoon.

A traditional Christmas dinner includes roast turkey, brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, cranberry sauce, rich nutty stuffing, tiny sausages wrapped in bacon and lashings of hot gravy. For pudding (dessert) there's always a rich, fruity pudding which you douse in flaming brandy – said to ward off evil spirits.