Christmas in England Christmas 2007 2008
The English called Christmas “Christmas” which means Mass of Christ. This is not the birth of Christ that is raised, as in the Romance languages, but the Mass on Christmas Eve in Germany.
Christmas is celebrated in England with enthusiasm. Scandinavians and British are the champions of the Christmas festivities. The day after Christmas is a public holiday in England.
The “Christmas Carols” is the Christmas carol that children intone in the street to get some coins.
The “Christmas pudding“, which is eaten at the end of the Christmas meal, consists of a mix of dried fruit, sugar and alcohol covered with a white frosting of nearly one inch thick a wet and hot sauce to alcohol. This cake is preparing a month in advance, following the tradition five Sundays before Christmas, to macerate. It is traditional to hide 6 objects (ring, coin, button breeches …) in this cake.
It receives gifts and goodies in Christmas stockings.
The greeting cards are of Anglo, appeared in the fifteenth century, it does develop that eighteenth through the development of printing and lithography in particular. Everyone sends to people he knows and, in every home, the cards are hung from above the fireplace.
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