A Brief History of Christmas and Its Symbols

This year's Christmas' most famous holiday celebration was held on December 25th at families and churches around the world. The meaning of Christmas is to recognize the birth of Christ and its precise date is unknown. In the 4th century, the Roman bishop made December 25 the birthday of Christ. Some authorities claim that the choice on December 25 is due to the simultaneous occurrence with Ming Taixi, the sun god festival of Mithras, and the festival of the Northern Europe winter solstice. The winter solstice is one of the years in the northern hemisphere when the noon sun seems to be in the south.

This article first introduces the brief history of modern Christmas and redefines the paradox of Christmas. Then it is how American people are looking at Christmas as a way of change as evidenced by mass media processing in terms of the quality and media handling found in consumer magazines and Christmas comic books chosen over the past 40 years I will explore. Partial) was quantitatively examined. These analyzes show that there is little substantial threat to the sacred position of Christmas, mainly due to the increased mutual penetration of values ​​celebrated by Christian Christian and commercial sponsor.

The second Christmas, hegemonic Christmas swallowed everything around - to overwhelm other holidays (Hannukah) and make your own dependent holiday (Black Friday / Cyber ​​Monday). Cultural Christmas takes its own rite and has its own characteristics, stories and symbols. In fact, I am very surprised if the identification of Christmas icon culture - red and white Santa - religious Christmas icon - baby Jesus - is harder to distinguish. Christmas must have a very strong religious element and history If you want to prove that it should be a strict religious belief, it is completely fair. But we must recognize that Christmas is not a religion in a strict sense - and it has been gone for a long time.

Christmas in the Philippines is very unique and has its own traditions and symbols. On a cold night on Christmas, we will match Filipino warm family relationships and friendships. Christmas in the Philippines is family, warm friendship, and gift time.

The traditional colors of Christmas decorations are red, green and gold. Red symbolizes the blood of Jesus, Jesus is swept over his cross, and green symbolizes eternal life, especially evergreens without losing leaves in winter. Three gifts symbolizing the royal family. Christmas trees are thought to be Christianized rituals surrounding pagan traditions and winter solstice, such as the use of branches of evergreen trees and the adaptation of pagan tree worship; biographer of the 8th century Üddi Stephanus (St. Bonifas) ( 634-709), he was a German missionary, brought an ax to the Taur dedicated oak tree, pointing to the Banyan tree. Awesome, because it points to heaven, it is shaped like a triangle, he said it is a symbol of the trinity