Christmas is a religious holiday. It is a happy holiday. Families come together to share their happiness, attend church, and exchange gifts. In the days before Christmas, parties are held in schools, offices, factories, and clubs; homes and shops are crowded with customers.
The start of the Christmas season in England is called Advent. Cities and towns sparkle with bright lights and decorations. Churches, homes, schools, schools, shops and streets are decorated with Christmas trees, paper decorations colourful electric lights, Father Christmas and his reindeer, and nativity scenes showing the stable where Jesus Christ was born. Shop-windows display gifts and Christmas scenes.
Families prepare for this holiday weeks before. They make and buy gifts and wrap them with bright paper and ribbons. They choose a tree and decorate it with ornaments and lights. Christmas cards are sent to friends and relatives.
People wish each other a “Merry Christmas” during this holiday season.
Christmas is the favourite day for all children. They wake up very early in the morning to find their stockings have been filled by Father Christmas and unwrap the presents before breakfast. Many people go to church to sing carols and to celebrate the birth of Jesus on Christmas Day.
A traditional feature of Christmas afternoon is the Queens Christmas message. At 3 o’clock p.m, the Queen gives her Christmas message to the nation which is broadcast on radio and television.
The day after Christmas is known in Britain as Boxing Day.
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