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1、圣诞节英语作文500字【三篇】 【篇1】 Christmas Day-December 25-which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the founder of the Christian religion, is the biggest and best-loved holiday in the Christian World. According to the Bible, the holy book of Christians, God decided to allow his only son, Jesus Christ, to be
2、born to a human mother and live on earth so that people could understand God better and learn to love God and each other more. Christmas- meaning celebration of Christ - honors the time when Jesus was born to a young Jewish woman Mary. Mary was engaged to be married to Joseph, a carpenter, but befor
3、e they came together, she was found to be with child. Because Joseph, her husband, was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, Do not be afrai
4、d to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. Although the exact date of the birth of Jesus nearly 2,000 years ago is not known, the ca
5、lendar on the supposed date divides all time into B.C. (Before Christ )and A.D. ( a Latin phrase, Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.) For the first 300 years, Jesus birthday was celebrated on different dates. Finally, in the year 354, church leaders chose December 25 as his birthday. 【篇2】 Christm
6、as Day falls on the twenty-fifth of December. It is a very happy day for many boys and girls . Before the term ends in some schools ， the children act a nativity or “birth” play， showing how Jesus was born in a stable。 On the twenty-fourth of December， all children are very excited. Usually they are
7、 sent to bed early so that their parents can get the presents ready. The younger children think that Father Christmas will come down the chimney or fireplace ， so they hang up a sock for him to put presents in. The greedy ones even hang up a pillow-case or a sack to try to get more presents. Later t
8、hat night， Father or Mother will put presents in the sock， and leave others at the side of the bed. On Christmas morning， the children wake up very early. Some even turn on the light at two oclock， and most of them are awake by six oclock although it is not light in England for another hour or two a
9、t this time of the year. Children look for their presents ， and the young ones play while the dinner is prepared. At about one oclock in the afternoon， the Christmas dinner is brought in . The turkey or chicken is quickly eaten . Children search in their Christmas pudding for new coins which are hid
10、den in it . The rest of the day is full of games and eating until the happiest of all Christmas hollidays comes to an end. 【篇3】 Although it is generally agreed that the Christmas tree in its current form came from Germany in the early 19th century, the tradition of decorating a tree to mark winter c
11、elebrations dates back hundreds of years to Roman times, when they used to decorate evergreen trees with small pieces of metal to celebrate Saturnalia. In medieval times the Paradise Play was performed every year on 24 December. This depicted the creation of Man and the fall of Adam and Eve from the
12、 Garden of Eden and always included an evergreen hung with apples which represented the apple tree of temptation. There is a legend that St Boniface, an English monk, came upon a group of pagans gathered around an oak tree who were preparing to sacrifice a child to the God Thor. In order to stop the
13、 sacrifice, and save the childs life, St Boniface is said to have felled the tree with one blow of his fist. Later on, a fir tree grew in place of the oak and this, St Boniface told the pagans, was the Tree of Life and represented the Christ Child. Legend also suggests that, in the late 16th century
14、, Martin Luther (the founder of the Protestant religion) was the first to decorate an indoor tree with candles when he attempted to recreate the stars shining over a forest of evergreens. The first mention of decorated trees being taken indoors came in 1605 in Germany - a country with a long Christm
15、as tree history! The trees were initially decorated with fruit and sweets together with hand made objects such as quilled snowflakes and stars. German Christmas Markets began to sell shaped gingerbreads and wax ornaments which people bought as souvenirs of the fair and took home to hang on their tre
16、e. Tinsel was also invented in Germany in about 1610. Up until fairly recently real silver was used, which was pulled into wafer thin strips by special machines. This was durable but tarnished quickly and many experiments took place to try and find an alternative - including a mix of lead and tin, which was too heavy and kept breaking. It was only in the mid 20th century that a viable alt
