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Q: What day do you celebrate Christmas in China?
What day do you celebrate Christmas?
I know that some do it on the 24th and others like myself the 25th
Does being in China change that?
It works well for me as the ex is Danish and celebrates on the 24th so I get my son on the 25th
Being that it's a Christian festival, obviously being in China does NOT change which day you celebrate it. It's the 25th of December and always will be to me. Not that I celebrate it anymore, I believe it's primarily for children.
But you can celebrate it on any day you wish really, it's entirely up to you. There's no law against it.
And just confuse matters, Europeans say Santa comes on December 6, even though Christmas is on the 24th! WTF is that about?
alexanderrz:
actually we Europeans say that on 6 December is St Nicholas, who leaves gifts for the children in their boots. Santa visit us on December 24, after midnight, just like everywhere
MissA:
But Santa IS St Nick.... Santa (saint) Clause (Nicholas/Niklaus). We've just bastardized and mixed up the spelling.
I'm European. I've never heard anybody say that. Is it a specific area of Europe?
MissA:
My Hungarian students and colleague told me that. They way they explained it, when they were kids they were told Santa came on the sixth, then "mummy santa' would come on the 24th.
Seemed remarkably strange to me!
Yes being in China changes Christmas as I work right through that week, the same as any other week. So I don't really celebrate Christmas.
December 25.
always have; always will...
of course there is a little something called Christmas Eve...
My family doesn't really celebrate Xmas. No endless hours of shopping for presents that no one really wants. I quit having a Christmas tree. The cats would de-decorate the tree daily. Once I came home and the dog must've helped as the trail of reefs and lights was from the tree and through the house. BTW I laugh at this. Almost every pet I've owned has TP-ed the house.
I will never spend a Xmas or winter in China again. If I want to go away and suffer, I'd rather have heat stroke.
