10 Little-known Facts About Christmas and How to celebrate Christmas during COVID 19

It’s always fun to learn something new, here are a few interesting facts around Christmas that will help you impress those around you this holiday season. This article also talks about how you can also celebrate the season of Christmas safely during the COVID pandemic. 

1. Traditional Christmas colours are green, red, and gold. Green symbolizes life and rebirth; red symbolizes Christ, and gold represents wealth.
2. In India, most Christians celebrate Christmas by putting up a large star outside their home and make a miniature crib as well.
   

The date for Christmas 25^th December was chosen by Pope Julius I, bishop of Rome in 350 A.D.

The two most popular Christmas decorations used in India are poinsettias and candles.

The poinsettia is a plant that’s native to Mexico, it was cultivated by the Aztecs. The actual name given to the plant was Cuetlaxochitl i.e “flower which wilts”. The colour of the plant symbolized purity for the Aztecs and this is one reason It became so popular. Some say that it was even used to reduce the effects of fever.

Although there are plenty of Christmas related TV shows and movies, Sweden does things differently. Here they all prefer to watch Donald Duck cartoons during Christmas Eve, this tradition started back in 1960.

The British do things in style and Christmas dinner is no exception. They wear paper crowns while they enjoy their Christmas dinner making their meals a royal affair. The crowns are well packaged and stored in tubes called ‘Christmas crackers’.

If you’re in Poland during Christmas, you’ll notice 1 very unique Christmas tree decoration – a spider web! This started because of a legend which says that a spider wove a blanket for Baby Jesus when he was in the manger. In fact, spiders are a symbol of goodness and prosperity at Christmas in Poland.

If you’re debating what’s better, a real tree or an artificial Christmas tree this might help. An artificial Christmas tree would have to be used for over 20 years to be considered “greener” than buying a real tree annually.

Would you consider having KFC for your Christmas dinner? Well, if you were in Japan you wouldn’t have it any other way. Over 40 years ago KFC’s genius marketing campaign convinced people that KFC was the best Christmas dinner option. This campaign worked so well that till date people all over Japan throng to KFC to get their orders in. They even place their Christmas orders 2 months in advance.

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Celebrating Christmas during COVID? Here's what you should keep in mind

The COVID pandemic has made celebrating Christmas in 2020 a little worrisome. The things that were easy to do like go carolling, having Christmas parties, going to church and even buying Christmas presents are now all a cause for concern. COVID is still running rampant and we’re still trying our best to cope with it. We need to follow social distancing and be safe at all times yet have some Christmas cheer. Here’s what you can do -

We wish everyone a happy and safe Christmas celebration amidst the corona pandemic. We hope these ideas and tips will help you with how to celebrate Christmas during COVID 19. If you have any fun ideas, thoughts, or suggestions, drop us a comment below. Remember, this is (hopefully) the only year that we will have to have a Christmas during COVID, so lets be safe and keep our spirits up!

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