How to celebrate Christmas fun - merry Christmas

Christmas is one of the most favorite and revered festivals of all Christians. Catholics and Protestants celebrate it according to the Gregorian calendar on the night of December 24 to December 25, and Orthodox Christians - about 200 million people around the world - from January 6 to January 7, in a new Julian style! Orthodox parishioners of the Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Jerusalem and parts of the Greek churches praise the birth of the Savior of the World - Jesus Christ. This is the most joyful holiday of renewal and forgiveness, which absorbed not only the veneration of religious traditions, but also the confusion of pagan rites. Although the official church does not approve of the presence in the festivities of symbols that have come down to us from the depths of centuries, but the people with pleasure and passion carouse, dress up in images of evil spirits and revive all forgotten rites. How to celebrate Christmas fun and carefree, make wishes, so that they have necessarily come true, and the holiday itself has become a vivid memory for many years?

Preparing for Christmas

Noisy winter bustle running around shopping for New Year's gifts, Christmas souvenirs and any tinsel always sets people up for the festive mood and gives a wonderful mood. On the eve of the Christian holiday, you can recharge the positive, buy nice things for loved ones, for kids and adults, for relatives, friends and colleagues.

• Having prepared gifts, let's take up the invention of entertainment. It will be necessary to take into account all age categories of the guests: to the kids - fun entertaining games and contests, for adults - an improvised concert or general singing with a guitar, and maybe your friends and family like to play in the fresh air in snowballs, go sledging or builda snowman? There is nothing easier! In winter, when there is a lot of snow on the street, it's especially not boring! And special training costs are not required.

• For some time, Christmas evenings and Christmas trees( the period from Christmas Eve January 6-7 to Epiphany on January 19) have become associated with the ancient play of caroling. The texts of carols - the majestic songs, glorifying the stars, the sun, the moon, the birth of Christ, and also containing the sincere wishes of well-being and prosperity to the owners of the dwelling where the "mummers" came to be found today in large numbers on the net. Children and adults learn with pleasure the long-forgotten folk carols, wear the costumes of a goat, a bear, a pig, a fox, a crane, a cat, buffoons, images of a kikimor, Baba-Yaga, other fairy-tale characters and go to visit relatives,friends and acquaintances. Goat - the main participant of the action, as it symbolizes prosperity and fertility. It is customary to treat caroling people, give them baked goods, sweets and small sums of money, so that the whole year in your house prosperity! For this purpose it is customary to sprinkle the house and the owners with wheat or other grain - "sow-sow".In the old days, if the owners were greedy, the caroling people threatened to take the animals from the yard or spoil anything. However, all threats were playful and no one was offended by "mummers".Today it turns into a bright bargain - a game of eloquence and fun!

• Joyful festive mood also creates decoration of the room with tinsel, garlands, snowflakes, bright rain of colors. And if this magnificence still remains with the celebration of the New Year, then "revive the picture" of Christmas can be images and figures of angels, Christmas stars - symbols of the Star of Bethlehem, elegant wreaths, figured candles or ordinary, but decorated with foil and all sorts of tinsel."Tree of Life" - a Christmas tree should not stand lonely in the corner, but be the mistress, the main accent of the Christmas party. It can also be decorated with a Bethlehem star on the top of the head, and under the tree you can equip the den - nursery in which the Savior was born.

• How to celebrate Christmas fun? Prepare an unforgettable spectacle of salutes, fireworks, crackers, Bengal lights and confetti! Arrange a thunderous extravaganza and launch into the sky colorful balls and paper lanterns! Delight of guests and a wonderful Christmas mood in this case will be guaranteed!
• As in the old days, for Christmas everyone in Russia is making wishes. Someone walks out into the street at midnight, others - gaily "hang out" all night. Esotericists are advised to go out at three o'clock in the morning, when "the heavens open."Unmarried girls especially love this "portal of desires", when you can ask God or the Higher Powers for yourself.
• On Christmas day, city streets, streets and squares are filled with masses of people, singing and laughing are heard, dances, merry competitions and contests are arranged.
• Fans find their destiny gather in the evening gatherings, guess, tell "terrible" stories about evil spirit, and then they cheerfully recall their experiences.

Christmas is one of the brightest and joyful holidays! On this night it is customary to forgive any resentment and from the bottom of the heart, sincerely, to have fun with close and dear people!