Merry Christmas Everyone !
as its Greetings Seasons i decided to collect Christmas traditions all over the world so i searched online and i asked many friends in different countries and here i decided to share with you these few information i got , and i really promise you that you will be impressed. Have a very Merry Christmas.
The Coptic Church is an Orthodox Church and in the Coptic Church Christmas is celebrated on the 7th January. Advent is observed for forty days and during this period people are expected to fast eating no meat, poultry or dairy products. Some people only do this during the last week of Advent.
On the Eve of Christmas everyone goes to church wearing a completely new outfit. The Christmas service ends at midnight with the ringing of church bells, then people go home to eat a special Christmas meal known as fata, which consists of bread, rice, garlic and boiled meat.
On Christmas morning people in Egypt visit friends and neighbors. They take with them kaik which is a type of shortbread, which they take with them to give to the people they visit and eaten with a drink known as shortbat. Christmas Day is a public holiday for Christians.
About two weeks before Christmas people in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East plant seeds - chickpeas, wheat grains, beans, lentils - in cotton wool. They water the seeds every day and by Christmas the seeds have shoots about 6 inches in height. People use the shoots to surround the manger in nativity scenes. Figures are made from brown paper, as well a star is placed above the scene.Traditionally throughout the Middle East people visit friends on Christmas morning and are offered coffee, liqueurs and sugared almonds. Lunch at Christmas is the most important meal of the season and the whole family gathers together for it, usually at grandparents or the eldest sons' home. The meal consists of chicken and rice, and Kubbeh, which is made up of crushed boiled wheat or burghul mixed with meat, onion, salt and paper.
In Peru nativity scenes with Retablos inside are very popular. When priests were first taken to traveling they would carry small altars around with them for festival days. These gradually developed into portable boxes with saints above the altar and scenes from everyday life below it. Now the retablosdepict Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, with local people crowding around.
Sources :
- friends from Japan and Lebanon
- quick survey about christmas in Egypt
- http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm
- http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/
yeah this info are truly correct
o I'm from lebanon
good job rana keep going
i check your blog daily waiting for the new post asap
OMG what a prefect post.. i like it
i'm from Egypt.
i like tha post as it realy what happend.
no one now practice the traditions as it is anymore.