Cz christmas
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Everyone looks forward to Christmas in December. Children receive Advent calendars with sweets to eat each day. People light candles on Advent wreaths each Sunday before Christmas. Popular decorations include gingerbread ornaments, cottages, and Bethlehems. On December 5th, children are visited by Saint Nicholas who rewards good children with gifts and punishes bad children. Families bake many types of Christmas cookies. December 24th is the most important day as families celebrate Christmas Eve with a large meal before opening gifts when the first star appears. They partake in traditions like floating boats made of walnut shells to tell the future. After opening gifts, families visit each other and children play with new toys. Everyone wishes each other
Cz christmas
- 2. Everyone, especially children, are looking forward to Christmas. In December they get Advent calendar. Every day they take some sweetness from it.
- 3. People make or buy Advent wreath with four candles. Every Sunday before Christmas one candle is lighted.
- 4. Gingerbread ornaments, Bethlehems and cottages are very popular.
- 5. Gingerbread ornaments before decorating.
- 6. December 5th we celebrate Saint Nicholas Day. St. Nicholas with angels and devils come to schools in the morning.In the evening they come to children s homes.
- 7. Children are asked if they were good. Children have to say a rhyme or sing a song. Good children get fruits and candies. Bad children can get potatoes or coal and devil can puts them into the bag and take them to the hell.
- 8. We bake Christmas cookies: vanilla rolls,bear paws,bee hives, linz circles and rods,nuts with stuffing
- 9. Every housewife wants to make many kinds of cookies.
- 10. It is the most important day . Everyone is looking forward to the evening. After dinner Je転鱈邸ek (baby Jesus) brings gifts. December 24th
- 11. We eat Christmas bread for breakfast.
- 12. Bread is woven from 9 rollers of sweet yeast dough with raisins and almonds.We eat it with butter or jam.
- 13. Children watch fairy tales on TV.
- 14. Usually we eat sauerkraut soup with cream for lunch.After lunch some people visit graves of relatives. If you don t eat anything whole day you can see a gold pig in the evening.
- 15. The most ceremonial meal is dinner. We put coins or notes under the plates and fish scale into a purse to have enough money for the next year. When the 1st star shows up in the sky Christmas Eve dinner can begin.
- 16. The first course: The second course is fish or pea soup. usually fried carp with potato salad. There are many recipes for potato salad. Salad is prepared from boiled potatoes, carrots, celery, parsley, peas and mayonnaise.
- 17. Desserts: cookies, apple strudel.
- 18. After dinner we sing carols and keep old traditions, e.g. cut apples into halves. Star means life and cross means death. star
- 19. We make little boats from walnut shells with a candle inside. Boats float in a bowl with water, and we can see if family stays together or splits up.
- 20. We also heat lead or wax in the spoon and then we pour it into the water. Created shape show us what awaits.
- 21. Girls throw a shoe over a shoulder to find out, if they get married next year. Toe shoes headed to the door, the girl gets married. o popular poinsettia
- 22. Children are very impatient after dinner.They are waiting for presents. They believe that the baby Jesus (Je転鱈邸ek) brings presents.When the bell rings, children run for them. They can find them under the Christmas tree.
- 23. Families visit each other and give gifts. Children play with new toys. Festive lunch in these days is e.g. poultry: roast duck, goose or turkey with cabbage and dumplings. A lot of people go to the mountains to skiing and snowboarding. Children make snowmen. December 25th and 26th
- 25. Also, we go to church to look at the crib.
- 26. Merry Christmas Vesel辿 V叩noce and a a happy New Year. 邸泥astn箪 nov箪 rok.