Christmas 2020 - History, significance behind the celebrations

Christmas 2020 celebrations have alrey begun with a number of activities. Despite current pandemic condition, people across world have been trying to get most out of this festive season. Thus, here is a look at festival of Christmas along with its significance and history.

Christmas 2020: Significance, History and why do we celebrate Christmas? 

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Why do we celebrate Christmas?

Christmas marks birth of Jesus Christ. To celebrate this joyous occasion, people around world celebrate festival and come toger with ir loved ones. streets are decorated with bright lights. houses are filled with decorations bearing red and gold, red and white, red and green accents. People celebrate companionship and togerness through this festival. A number of people choose to celebrate festival with ir loved ones by paying m a visit and taking part in all Christmas festivities. sweets and carol singing stay as one of biggest Christmas highlights. crib decorations and tree decorations too d to Christmas fun. Families and friends come toger to take part in setting up and creating unique decorations for “crib” or tree. Coming toger fills one with a sense of community, and hence people from all walks of life erly take part in all festive fun associated with Christmas. customary gift-giving follows season as well, which has been a huge r for children throughout generations.

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Christmas History

Biblically, Christmas began with birth of Jesus centuries ago and thus festival began and was widespre. In different parts of world, Christmas has different histories with some simple variations. According to History Channel, rse celebrate Christmas as recognition when men come back after bringing huge logs of wood. people would n rejoice and take part in 12-day celebration. One of most commonly believed stories of Christmas history is birth of Jesus and refore festival is often associated with this biblical attribute.

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Christmas significance

significance of Christmas can be traced back to mythological reason as to why people celebrate festival. birth of Jesus symbolised a spiritual truth of life and divinity. Jesus being personification of divinity, significance of this day has been associated with his birth. Biblically, it is believed that Jesus was born during a time when superstition, greed and hatred were at ir peak. His birth began his journey into preaching and getting people out of ir selfish ways. Thus as a day of immense significance, December 25 is celebrated as Christmas.

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