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The name Christmas is short for "Christ Caesar". China's basic translation is "Christmas", which is a more accurate translation except Chinese mainland. Christians celebrate their faith and the birth of Jesus Christ. "The celebration of Christmas came into being at the same time as Christianity, and it is speculated that it began in 1 century. For a long time, the date of Christmas has not been determined, because the exact date of birth of Jesus is controversial, and there is no record of Jesus except the New Testament. The New Testament doesn't know the date, so of course no one knows the exact date. In the first 300 years around A.D., people celebrated Jesus' birthday on different days. Writers before the 3rd century BC wanted to set Christmas around the vernal equinox. Until the middle of 3rd century BC, Christianity was legalized in Rome. In 354 BC, the Bishop of Rome designated julian calendar 65438+February 25th as the birthday of Jesus. Today's Christmas date is closely related to the creation of advertising calendar. The Gregorian calendar was established in the 5th century AD, and then the date of Christmas was determined according to the Gregorian calendar. According to the assumed date, the calendar divided the time into BC (before the birth of Jesus Christ) and AD (which is Latin abbreviation, meaning "the year when our Lord-Jesus was born"). Later, although the general churches accepted 65438+ February 25th as Christmas Day, due to the different calendars used by local churches, the specific dates could not be unified, so the period from 65438+February 24th to 65438+the following year1October 6th was designated as Christmas Tide, and local churches could celebrate Christmas during this period according to local conditions. Western churches, including Roman Catholicism, Anglican Communism and Protestantism, set Christmas as 65438+February 25th in Gregorian calendar. The Orthodox Church decided that Christmas Day would be 65438+10.7 on the Gregorian calendar (actually called "Epiphany Day"), which was related to the fact that the Orthodox Church did not accept the Gregorian calendar reform and the revised julian calendar, so the Christmas Day from 1900 to 1999 would be postponed to 65438+10.7 on October. Bulgaria and Romania are also Orthodox regions, but the Christmas date follows the Western European custom of 65438+February 25th, while Easter follows the custom. The oldest Christian church, the Armenian Apostolic Church, decided the Gregorian calendar 1.6, and the Armenian church paid more attention to Epiphany than Christmas. Christmas is also a public holiday in the western world and many other regions, such as Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore in Asia. Non-Christians in the world just regard Christmas as a secular cultural festival.

There was no Christmas at the beginning of the church, and it didn't happen until about one hundred years after Jesus ascended to heaven. It is said that the first Christmas was held in A.D. 138 at the initiative of Bishop St Clemens of Rome. The first Christmas in the history of the church was in 336 AD. Because the Bible does not clearly remember the time when Jesus was born, the date of Christmas varies from place to place. It was not until 440 AD that the Holy See designated 65438+February 25th as Christmas. In A.D. 1607, church leaders from all over the world gathered in Bethlehem, which further confirmed this point. Since then, most Christians in the world have regarded 65438+February 25th as Christmas. /kloc-In the 20th century, Christmas cards became popular, Santa Claus appeared, and Christmas became popular.