Christmas Day
In Britain, Christmas Day is normally spent at home, with the family, and it is regarded as a celebration of the family and its continuity. Preparations start well in advance, with the sending of Christmas cards and installation of a decorated Christmas tree in a prominent place in the home. Although it is now a firmly established tradition, the Christmas tree was first popularised by Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, who introduced the custom from his native Germany in 1840.
Some houses are decorated with evergreens (plants which do not lose their leaves in winter); a wreath of holly on the front door and garlands of holly, ivy and fir indoors. Bunches of mistletoe are often hung above doorways - any couple passing underneath must exchange kisses! Traditional food is prepared: sweet mince pies, a rich Christmas cake and the Christmas pudding. Everyone has their own favourite recipe, but they’re all packed full of spices, nuts, dried fruit and brandy.
Presents are bought and wrapped, and traditionally placed under the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Christmas is both a secular and a religious holiday, and many families like to attend a midnight service at church on Christmas Eve, or celebrate Christmas in church on Christmas morning.
The excitement begins for children on Christmas Eve, when they hang up their stockings (an old sock or, more ambitiously, pillow cases) around the fireplace or at the foot of the bed for Father Christmas to fill with presents. The English Father Christmas or Santa Claus is first recorded in his traditional red and white outfit in a woodcut of 1653, but the story of Santa arriving in his reindeer-drawn sleigh and descending down the chimney to fill children’s stockings with presents derives from the USA.
Practically everyone sits down to a Christmas dinner in the early afternoon of Christmas Day, traditionally roast turkey, but some families prefer goose or roast beef. The turkey is followed by the Christmas pudding, brought to the table flaming hot. Brandy is poured over the pudding, then lit. The day ends with everyone relaxing, watching television or playing guessing-games like charades.
圣诞节
在英国与该的家人通常在家里用，它被认为是家庭和其连续性的庆典。 准备好
启动进展，与发送的圣诞卡及安装在家中的显眼处的装饰圣诞树。 虽然现在是建立牢固的传统在圣诞树是第一次提出由艾伯特王子在 1840年从他本机的德国进口自定义的维多利亚女王的丈夫。 一些房子用 evergreens (植物的冬天不会失去其树叶） ； 装饰的霍利霍利、 常春藤、 杉木在室内味与前门一个花圈。 槲寄生的串口经常悬挂在门口上方-传递下面任何夫妇必须交换吻 ！ 传统的食品准备： 甜肉末馅饼、 丰富的圣诞蛋糕和圣诞布丁。 每个人都有自己最喜欢的食谱，但它们的所有丰富的香料、 坚果、 干果和白兰地。 礼物买了又换行，而且传统上在圣诞树下放置在圣诞夜。 圣诞节是一个长期和一个宗教的节日和很多家庭想参加圣诞节前夕在教堂里的一个午夜服务或对圣诞节的早晨，在教堂庆祝圣诞节。 刺激儿童从开始时他们挂上他们丝袜 （一个旧袜子或，更是雄心勃勃，枕情况） 周围壁炉或为圣诞老人的礼物充满床脚下的圣诞。 英语圣诞老人第一次录一木刻的 1653，但抵达他的驯鹿拉的雪橇上的圣诞老人的故事在他传统的红色和白色外套和降序儿童袜充满礼物烟囱倒源自美国。 几乎是每个人都坐下来，在早期的圣诞节，传统上烤特基下午一个圣诞晚餐，但有些家庭喜欢鹅或烤牛肉。 火鸡被跟圣诞布丁，带到表 flaming 热。 白兰地是浇上了的布丁，然后点亮。 这一天结束与每个人放松、 看电视或玩哑谜一样竞猜游戏。 翌日节礼日 (12 月 26 日) 是所谓因为它是 tradespeople 时收到一个圣诞节 '-一些钱，以感谢他们已经进行了全年工作的一次。 传统上为参观的家人和朋友，沉迷于更多喝，一次节礼日是受欢迎的一天足球比赛和其它体育的固定装置。 这一天是放假一所以商店和银行已经关闭。 较近期一些店铺已经中断与传统和现在打开圣诞，鼓励顾客等不及要他们圣诞花钱的人 ！
New Year
New Year is often launched with a party - either at home with family and friends or a gathering in the local pubs and clubs. Merrymaking begins on New Year’s Eve and builds up to midnight. The stroke of midnight is the cue for much cheering, hooting, whistling, kissing and the drinking of toasts.
Tradition has it that the first person over the threshold on New Year’s Day will dictate the luck brought to the household in the coming year. This is known as First Footing. At midnight on 31 December, particularly in Scotland and northern England, ‘first footers’ (traditionally a tall, dark, good-looking man) step over the threshold bringing the New Year’s Luck. The first footer usually brings a piece of coal, a loaf and a bottle of whisky. On entering he must place the fuel on the fire, put the loaf on the table and pour a glass for the head of the house, all normally without speaking or being spoken to until he wishes everyone ‘A Happy New Year’. He must, of course, enter by the front door and leave by the back.
In Wales the back door is opened to release the Old Year at the first stroke of midnight. It is then locked up to ‘keep the luck in’ and at the last stroke the New Year is let in at the front door.
In Scotland the New Year remains the greatest of all annual festivals. Called ‘Hogmanay’ (a word whose meaning has never been satisfactorily established), it’s marked by an evening of drinking and merrymaking, culminating at the stroke of midnight when huge gatherings of people at Edinburgh’s Tron Kirk and Glasgow’s George Square greet the New Year by linking arms and singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’.
新年
是经常推出-的一方也在家里与家人和朋友或在当地的酒吧和俱乐部聚会。 狂欢的平安
夜中开始，并建立至午夜 12 时。 午夜的描边是多欢呼、 叫、 吹口哨、 吻和进口的喝酒的提示。 传统有它第一个超过上一年中阈值将决定在下一年度为家庭带来的好运。 这被称为第一次的基础。 尤其是在蘇格蘭和北英格兰，十二月三十一日午夜在 ' 超过了阈值带来新年的吉祥单步执行的第一个页脚 (传统上高大而黑的英俊男子)。 首页页脚通常带来一块煤、 一条面包和一瓶威士忌酒。 走进他必须将燃料放在火上、 放在桌上，面包和没有发言或正在交谈，直到他希望每个人都 'A 新年快乐' 通常都倒了的房子头一杯。 当然，他必须通过前门输入，步出背面。 在威尔士释放在午夜的第一个笔画旧岁打开后门。 它然后已达锁定 ' 保持好运'，在最后的脑卒中新的一年在前门让。 在苏格兰新的一年，仍然是最大的所有年度节日。 名为 'Hogmanay' （其意义不令人满意地成立了一个词） 它的标记的饮酒狂欢，并最后在午夜时大聚会的人在爱丁堡的 Tron 柯克和格拉斯哥的乔治广场迎接链接武器和唱 ' 满天的新的一年的一个晚上。
Halloween
Halloween (31 October) and its associations with witches and ghosts derives from the Celtic Old Year’s Night - the night of all witches, when spirits were said to walk the earth. Witches and supernatural beings are still remembered all over Britain, when bands of children roam the streets in ghoulish costumes, carrying Halloween lanterns - pumpkins hollowed out with a ghostly face cut into one side, which glows when a candle is placed inside.
In recent years the custom of ‘trick or treating’ has gained in popularity. Although we commonly associate this practice with America, the custom originated in England as ‘Mischief Night’ when children declared one ‘lawless night’ of unpunished pranks (usually May Day eve or Halloween).
Halloween parties (usually for children) include games such as apple bobbing, where apples are either floated in water or hung by a string. The object of the game is for the players to put their hands behind their back and try to seize an apple with their teeth alone.
万圣节
(十月三十一日) 和女巫和鬼魂及其关联时精神走地说，是从凯尔特旧岁夜-所有
女巫，之夜。 女巫和神仙都还记得各地英国，成群的孩子漫游 ghoulish 的服装上街头时携带万圣节灯笼-南瓜鬼面切成发光时一支蜡烛放在其中的一侧掏空。 近年来诡计或治疗的习俗得到普及。 虽然我们通常将与美国，这一风俗起源于英国作为危害夜 ' 时孩子们声明一个 '不法夜' 惩罚恶作剧 (通常五一前夕或万圣节) 的关联这种做法。 万圣节方 （通常为儿童) 包括如苹果咬苹果是浮在水中或由字符串挂游戏。 游戏的目标是把他们背着手，并设法抓住用牙齿独自一个苹果的球员。
Easter
Easter day is named after the Saxon goddess of spring, Eostre, whose feast took place at the spring equinox. Easter is now the spring feast of the Christian church, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus. It falls on a Sunday between22 March and 25 April, according to the church calendar.
Traditionally Easter eggs, dyed and decorated or made of chocolate, are given as presents symbolising new life and the coming of spring.
Egg rolling competitions take place in northern Britain on Easter Monday; hard-boiled eggs are rolled down a slope, with the winner being - according to local preference - the one which rolls the furthest, survives the most rolls, or is successfully aimed between two pegs! The best publicised event takes place at Avenham Park in Preston, Lancashire.
Easter parades are also part of the Easter tradition, with those taking part wearing Easter bonnets or hats, traditionally decorated with spring flowers and ribbons.
复活节
是春天，Eostre，其盛宴就发生在春天 equinox 克逊女神名字命名的。 复
活节现在是教堂的春天宴在基督教的纪念耶稣的复活。 它落在一个星期日 between22 三月及四月二十五日，依法在教堂的日历。 传统复活节蛋，染色和装饰或做的巧克力，有作为礼物 symbolising 新生命和春天的到来。 蛋滚动比赛在英国北部在复活节星期一举行 ； 煮的蛋均会被回滚一个的坡下获胜者被-根据本地首选项-一卷，最大限度、 存活最卷，或两个销子之间是成功的 ！ 最佳宣传的事件发生在兰开夏郡稱 Avenham 公园。 复活节游行也是与这些参加复活节盖的柳条筐内或传统上点缀着春天的花朵和缎带的帽子戴在复活节传统的一部分。
New Years Day 新年，元旦，1月1日
St.Valentine's Day 圣瓦伦丁节（情人节）2月14日 All Fools's Day or April Fools's Day 愚人节4月1日 Good Friday 耶稣受难日（复活节前的星期五） Easter 复活节（春分月圆后第一个星期日，4月） Easter Monday 复活节后的星期一
Holy Thursday 耶稣升天节（复活节后的40天的星期四） May Day or Labour Day 五一劳动节
the Spring Bank Holiday 春假（英国5月最后一个星期一） Mother's Day 母亲节（5月第二个星期日）
Memorial Day 阵亡将士纪念日（美国，5月26日） Independence Day 美国独立纪念日（7月4日）
the Summer Bank Holiday 夏季公假（英国，8月最后一个星期一） Columbus Day 哥伦布日（10月12日） Halloween 万圣节前夕（10月31日）
Hallowmas 万圣节（11月1日）
Armistice day or Veterans Day 第一，二次世界大战的停战纪念日（11月11日） Thanksgiving Day 感恩节（在美国是11月的第二个星期一） Christmas Eve 圣诞节前夜（12月24日） Christmas Day 圣诞节（12月25日）
Boxing Day 节礼日（圣诞节次日，如遇星期日，推迟一天） New Years Day 新年，元旦，1月1日
St.Valentine's Day 圣瓦伦丁节（情人节）2月14日 All Fools's Day or April Fools's Day 愚人节4月1日 Good Friday 耶稣受难日（复活节前的星期五） Easter 复活节（春分月圆后第一个星期日，4月） Easter Monday 复活节后的星期一
Holy Thursday 耶稣升天节（复活节后的40天的星期四） Columbus Day 哥伦布日（10月12日） Halloween 万圣节前夕（10月31日） Hallowmas 万圣节（11月1日）
Thanksgiving Day 感恩节（在美国是11月的第二个星期一） Christmas Eve 圣诞节前夜（12月24日） Christmas Day 圣诞节（12月25日）
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