Christmas worldwide – France
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Christmas worldwide
The article describes Christmas celebrations Christmas worldwide and customs in different countries around the world.
Western Europe
France
The French Santa Claus is called Père Noël. Unlike the American Santa Claus, he does not occur in jackets and trousers, but wearing a long red robe with a pointed cap. His gifts, he does not contribute in a sack, but in a hotte (basket) on the back, similar to the wine harvest. The children put their shoes outside the door. A popular Christmas song in the French children’s “Petit Papa Noël.”
In eastern France, especially Alsace and Lorraine, occurs around the sixth Around December, Santa Claus, accompanied by his black-clad assistant, the Père Fouettard in appearance.
Belgium and Netherlands
The Sinterklaasavond (Nicholas Eve) remains important in the Netherlands, although the Dutch have begun in recent years also to celebrate Christmas Eve with Santa. This triggers every year from a little controversy about, when it is more appropriate to celebrate Christmas. Shopkeepers begin the lucrative Christmas period just after the St. Nicholas (decorations depend often before), while others fear that the “foreign” and “commercial” Christmas celebrations affects Nicholas too. As the American Santa Claus evidence derived from Sinterklaas, he does so here in rivalry with his ancestors.
The Dutch, but also Belgian, Sinterklaas is like the German Nikolaus accompanied by a helper named Zwarte Piet (Black Peter). He wears a bishop’s miter and rests on a curved rod is said of him that he lives the year round in Spain and in mid-November arrives on a steamboat in the Netherlands, which is acted out in many coastal locations, respectively. Children leave their shoes outside the Nicholas Eve outside to find her in the morning filled with candy. Accordingly, the 5th December in the Netherlands and the sixth December in Belgium recognized as a true gift days, during the 25th December is more of a religious event.
Luxembourg
In Luxembourg traditionally on the evening before 6 December, a shoe made to the front door, then fill the Klees (Nicholas) and his assistant House nucleus with sweets and fruits. On Christmas Eve dinner is usually fed blood sausage with mashed potatoes and apple sauce together with family and good friends. The presents under the Christmas tree may not be unpacked until after the midnight mass.
United Kingdom and Ireland
The Christmas traditions in the British islands were taken over by its former colonies in North America, Australia or New Zealand. On Christmas Eve (Christmas Eve) the gifts by the Santa Claus, Father Christmas will be here is, supplied under the Christmas tree. The British, its name appears as Santa Claus for the more formal than the American version of Santa Claus. On Christmas Day (Christmas Day), families and sometimes even friends together for a traditional Christmas dinner. Christmas is more common than in an average year watching television and for many television stations is the Christmas Eve quotenträchtigste the day of the year. Many British people still watch the annual Christmas address to the Queen. One of the most listened to radio programs broadcast live for decades afternoon celebration of the “Nine Lessons and Carols” from the King’s College, Cambridge. Also on 26 December continues to be celebrated: The Boxing Day in the United Kingdom or St. Stephen’s Day in Ireland is an extension of Christmas, but has historical and religious roots in the feast of St. Stephen.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihnachten_weltweit
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