圣诞节英文--超详细

the feast of christmas

it is not easy to pin-point the origins of the christmas feast, today themore important feast of the christmas season in most western christian churches.one can only say for certain that the birth of jesus christ was being celebratedin rome by the year 336 a.d.; afterwards the feast was celebrated in otherchristian churches throughout the world.

why it was celebrated on december 25th is another question. no date for thebirth of jesus can be found in thenew testament, which is concerned more withthe question "who is jesus?" than the date of his birth. early christianspeculation about his birth date was influenced by the symbolism of the changingseasons, then popular in religious thought, which paid careful attention to theequinoxes and solstices of the sun. christian scholars speculated that jesus wasconceived at the spring equinox (march 25th) and therefore was born on december25th, the date of the winter solstice.