Traditional Christmas

No matter where you grew up in, when the leaves of trees start to whither and fall, and nights grow colder and longer, you know the holiday season is approaching. For every nation, culture, and family there's a traditional Christmas, but there are some things shared by everyone even from all across the globe.

Who doesn't know Santa Claus, that beefy old white-haired and white-bearded man in a red suit who comes at the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve and showers gifts for all good children while they sleep? He enters each household via the chimney and fills Christmas stockings with candies and trinkets and places presents underneath Christmas trees, then returns to his sleigh pulled by flying reindeers and soars off. Now of course there really is no Santa but there are the presents left by parents underneath the tree and inside the stockings on Christmas Eve to surprise their children in the morning. Still remember the joy of getting a box or two wrapped in beautiful paper and tied with a ribbon? You shake it near your ear to guess what could be inside, then open it eagerly and jump for joy at your new toy!

Then of course there are Christmas carols, the bountiful feasting with family, snowball fights in the yard (you can't exclude winter and snow from the idea of Christmas now, can you?) and building a Frosty the Snowman in the lawn, Christmas cards and Christmas-themed TV shows and movies. All these make for very memorable experiences on the traditional Christmas for each person and family the world over.

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