Презентация " Holidays"

Christmas is celebrated around the world and many countries have their own traditions and customs associated with its celebration.

Christmas all over the world

Spain

China

Czech Republic

England

Germany

Argentina

Brazil

USA

Poland

Croatia

Italy

Finland

Russia

Iceland

France

Christmas in Spain

The main Spanish holiday – Christmas .

• It is the most important Spanish holiday. Preparation for it begins in November. City streets are gradually decorated, in shops and in streets Christmas trees are established, flicker everywhere Fathers Noely - Father Frost brothers and Santa Claus.
• If you can meet New year in Spain, be going to swallow of fruit. Each time when hours will beat off in midnight of 12 blows, it is necessary to swallow grapes. It is said that it brings happiness.
• Besides sweets, on a festive table there will be sea crustaceans - shrimps, crabs, spiny lobsters - and champagne. By tradition any Spanish holiday should be accompanied by a plentiful and tasty meal, and for the most important holiday in a year of money nobody is sorry. nobody is sorry.

Christmas on Spain is the silent holiday spent in the bosom of the family. Usually, a week or two before Christmas, organized Christmas dinners in restaurants, collecting at the same table work colleagues or simply friends. Evening on December, 24th and all the day long on December, 25th Spaniards spend in the family circle: give each other gifts and destroy huge stocks of the provisions bought within several weeks.

Christmas on Germany

• Christmas or Holy Night (Weihnachten) in Germany takes place quietly with his family. Traditionally, this day decided to dress in red and dark green color. To decorate the streets and houses are mainly red and gold colors.
• The main symbols of Christmas on Germany - a fur-tree and Christmas festival.
• Since November and before the eve of Christmas all Germany has fun on main squares of cities and looks after gifts at Christmas fairs.

The main Christmas dish in Germany, as in many other countries, is a goose.

Christmas in the Czech Republic.

• To prepare for Christmas on Prague begin already in the beginning of December when streets and squares of the city dress up New Year's garlands and small lamps, getting fantastic lines and creating celebratory mood.

• Christmas holiday in the Czech Republic - is a ritual. On the eve of preparing a traditional dish - fried carp with potato salad and baked Christmas cookies.

Christmas in Poland

• Christmas - the most important holiday in Poland. For all citizens of Poland Christmas Eve is time of gathering of all family, and Christmas - night of magic. Polish superstition says that on the night of Christmas, animals can talk.
• Since the earliest morning on December, 24th women clean houses and prepare various dishes, preparing for Christmas Eve.
• December 24 - a day of great concern: dress up the tree, prepare and pack the gifts. The gift should get every party celebration. All Christmas week Poles visit to each other, drink tea with spice-cakes and other batch, watch the representations prepared by children, some visit poor and sick.

Christmas on Brazil

• In Brazil Christmas is celebrated at 35-degree heat. Therefore the inhabitants of the country deprived of "snow" pleasures, decorate a fur-tree cotton wool flakes.
• Brazilians prefer to celebrate Christmas in streets. Street celebrations, songs and dances - a distinctive feature of Christmas celebrations in Brazil.
• Brazilian Santa Claus, according to tradition comes from a distant Greenland.

Fur-tree in Rio de Janeiro the brightest in Brazil.

Christmas on France

• Christmas is the most important holiday in a year for any French family, therefore are prepared for it fully, for the whole month. It is especially important for children who find the gifts at the dressed up fur-tree.
• A few days before Christmas in all the councils begin the evening concerts.
• The main Christmas service passes in Notre Dame de Paris.

Fur-tree - a symbol of Christmas on France.

Christmas on the USA

• Christmas is a holiday, which became a good occasion to Americans to visit relatives, or to sit in a close family circle, to give each other gifts, and simply to communicate. Usually, families, Americans give each other expensive gifts. It could be jewelry, expensive wines, spirits, something right out of household clothing. If no specific ideas do not, then practical Americans simply give a gift certificate or gift card denomination from $ 25 and above.
• Among all the national holidays of Christmas in the U.S. - the most beloved and epic in scope.

Christmas on Finland

• Christmas Finland names Joulu (Йоулу), it is one of the most favourite Finnish holidays. In honour of it Finns named December joulukuu – month of Christmas. So it is called three hundred years more narrow, and before arrival to Finland Christianities December was called simply talvikuu – winter month.
• In Finland, gifts at Christmas give a lot. They are usually inexpensive - chocolate, candles and candle holders, Christmas angels, goats and straw ornaments, wooden ornaments and suvenirchiki. Very often give Christmas potted plants. The most popular of them, Christmas star, or poinsettia.

Christmas on Russia

• All over the world say that in Russia Christmas mark not how in other Christian countries. Catholic Christmas is marked in December, and orthodox – only in January. Therefore in Russia children and adults receive Christmas gifts on two weeks later.

Christmas in England

• In England Christmas — the present family holiday. This day all gather in the parental house, give each other gifts, eat, drink and look through the family photos. A traditional dish is the turkey under sauce from a gooseberry and a pudding. And drink this day exclusively tea or a brandy.
• Ornament of an English Christmas table is the celebratory pie.
• The house in Great Britain can be decorated branches of holly-symbolizing a prosperity, and mistletoes — meaning hospitality and fertility.

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Christmas in Argentina

• Christmas in Argentina - a home, a family holiday. As a rule, all family members gather at someone's home, at about 10 pm sit down to eat, my grandfather told all sorts of stories, the women chat about their etc.
• At 12 am officially opens cider or pop (champagne in a rare case), the young people go shoot squib or a gun on running a small balloons.
• At the Christmas table - traditionally ensalada rusa (Russian like Olivier, who are proud Argentines), ensalada de lechuga y tomate (lettuce, tomatoes), the Argentine asado or marinated chicken.

Christmas in Iceland

• Christmas comes early in Iceland. Already on December 12 in anticipation of gifts sill exposed children's shoes. Isladskim kids lucky - the presents will not only Santa Claus and the Christmas thirteen beings, half human - half-troll, every night would bring something in for two weeks. It is true that only good children are lucky, the rest in his shoes just find a potato. But the most intolerable will visit a horrible cat Grill - troll with three eyes, warts and protruding teeth. She, as the legend goes, do not bite off a naughty kid!

On Christmas Eve, preparing ptarmigan - a traditional Icelandic Christmas dish. At night before Christmas all television programs stop, by radio the church mass is broadcast. After returning from family church sit down a table. A partridge wash down routinely with red wine, but sometimes and champagne. For a dessert — a simple rice pudding in which one almond hides. It eat, while someone does not find the hidden nutlet, and to the lucky beggar give out a gift.

Christmas in Croatia

• Christmas celebrated in Croatia as well as in other countries of the Catholic world. Under the Christmas tree placed gifts on Christmas Eve the family sits down for dinner, which is usually fed carp, and then all go to church.

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China

In China, not dress up the tree, and so-called "trees of light" that decorate the lanterns and flowers.

Christmas in Italy

• Christmas and New Year are among the most "delicious" Italian holidays. Traditionally, these festivals are not only the family gathers to exchange gifts, but also to think about how fun it is for the family table. A typical holiday menu in almost all regions of Italy includes traditional dishes. In the Christmas menu is meat dumplings in broth, stuffed with meat, sweet rolls or buns of Milan, and New Year - dzampogne, pork sausage and lentils.

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May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow. Wish you lots of love, joy and happiness.