Xmas is coming soon. Japanese people like to celebrate the Christmas.
Many people would have a party on 24th December or 25th December.
Some of them would eat the turkey and drink a lot of alcohol.
It is good chance for children to get a present from family. When I was a kid,
my parents used to give me a present, such as a toy.
In Japan, people call Santa Claus "Santa san" with respect and friendship.
By the way, what date is the day when Santa Claus comes to our city?
In Japanese culture, I guess we would imagine that Santa Claus comes on 24th December
(or 25th December). I have heard that this story came from America.
But yesterday, I heard of something on the radio. That says German people say Santa Claus
comes on 6th December. Is this really? I am very interested in this difference.
I have heard that American culture celebrate the both of Christmas and the New Year
because the date is close. In Japanese culture, we don't do that. We celebrate those of
the date separately.
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I'm pretty sure they don't celebrate the two events as one in America.
Anyway, here in Denmark, we celebrate Christmas on the evening of the 24th.
Most people get together with their family (not only parents, but cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents and so forth), eat Christmas dinner (usually a particular kind of pork meat, or duck/goose).
After the meal, we eat something called risalamande (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risalamande). There's a little game involved, but you can read about it in the wiki-article if you're interested.
Once we're done with all the eating, we'll dance around the Christmas tree, singing Christmas carols. Presents are usually placed underneath the tree at the beginning of the evening (or the night before "by Santa" ("Julemanden" in Danish), if there are young children in the family), so once we're done dancing around the tree, it's time to open them. In my family we normally open one present at a time, so this ends up taking like an hour or more!
I did not know anything about "risalamande".
That's very interesting.
We don't dance so much
like your culture.
I feel cultural difference a bit.
Thank you for leaving
your comment. ^^
For Germany, it's true about the 6th of December. But it's not really the same as Santa Claus on 24th... (^-^;;
We call 6th of December "Nikolaus".
Nikolaus looks a little bit different from Santa Claus.
I found this article about it, it describes the difference pretty good:
http://normanteigen.blogspot.de/2008/12/whats-difference-in-germany-between.html
On 6th of December Nikolaus visited my company (it was a dressed guy from my company though ^^) and our company's kindergarten children sang a few songs for him. It was very cute.
In Germany we celebrate Christmas and New Year separated.
We spend Christmas with our families, eating dinner and also have presents under our Christmas trees.
On New Year some do celebrate with their family, some do with their friends. We have big fireworks on New Years Eve starting from midnight! (^_^)
I heard that Nikolaus is related the person of "Ordin".
The site you showed me is very
interesting.
Thank you for letting me know
about that.
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas! In such a sequence in Russia. According to the Orthodox calendar, Christmas comes on January 7. Besides, Russia accepted to celebrate with friends "Old New Year" on the night of 12 to 13 January. This is due to the change in the calendar at the beginning of the 20th century.( In the old days it was on January 1, as it is now January 13.)
To Anonymous
Wow. I did not know about
Old New Year.
We have the old calender too.
But usually we don't do anything
according to the old calender.
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