Christmas, also known as Christmas and Jesus' birthday, translated as' Christ mass', is a traditional western festival, originated from Christianity, on December 25 of the Gregorian calendar every year. Mass is a church service. Christmas is a religious festival, because it is celebrated as the birthday of Jesus, so it is called 'Christmas'. Most catholic churches will first hold midnight mass on Christmas Eve on December 24, that is, in the early morning of December 25, while some Christian churches will give good news, and then celebrate Christmas on December 25. However, Christmas and Christmas Eve have also become a very popular foreign festival in China. Christmas Eve is very valued by people because it implies peace. Every Christmas Eve, people have the habit of giving apples, but do you know that giving apples on Christmas Eve is just a habit of Chinese people, and there is no saying of giving apples in foreign countries. The editor of this article will talk to you about the origin of Christmas Eve and China, and why only Chinese people send apples on Christmas Eve.
Let's talk about the origin of the name Christmas Eve. " The name 'Christmas Eve' has a strong Chinese 'flavor', which is translated from 'silent night'. Christmas Eve was not originally called 'silent night', but simply called christmaseve, that is, Christmas Eve. Until 1818, zither player Franz Gruber composed the short poem silent night into a Christmas song. Because of its flat and elegant tune, it brought warmth and tranquility to the people suffering from war, and then it was widely spread. Over time, 'silent night' replaced 'Christmas Eve'. After silent night was introduced into China, in the process of transliteration, people did not take its original meaning of silence and silence, but deliberately integrated it with Chinese traditional culture and gave it a very Chinese name - Christmas Eve.
Christmas Eve, a Christian festival, lost its soil suitable for the survival of the original culture after it was introduced into China. Because Chinese culture has strong integration and uniqueness, this Christian festival has been changed by Chinese traditional culture again and again. Ping An fruit is one of the products of Sinochem. Because Chinese people pay attention to homophony and like to use homophony to get a good head. For example, in Chinese traditional marriage customs, people sprinkle jujube, peanut, longan and chestnut on the bed of newlyweds, wishing the newlyweds early (jujube) birth (peanut) and expensive (longan) seeds (chestnut). Ping An fruit was also born in this way. Apple's' Apple 'is homonymous with Ping An's' ping', so people have formed the custom of giving Ping An fruit to each other on Christmas Eve by taking advantage of Apple's peace implication. In fact, except China, other countries do not have the habit of giving 'safe fruit'.
On Christmas Eve, Chinese people not only send each other peace fruits, but also chat, party and entertainment with about three or five friends. But in western countries, people are very busy on this day. They have to prepare for the coming Christmas. Every family is busy cleaning, baking food, arranging Christmas trees, making Christmas gifts, etc. Although Christmas Eve has settled down in China, its cultural connotation has been washed and dyed by Chinese culture and has completely become a product of Sinochem. To exaggerate, we may have had a 'fake' Christmas Eve. However, Christmas Eve, as a foreign festival, has been accepted by young people and businesses, and has become as important as Chinese festivals.