【视频】各国圣诞大不同
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We are talking about different Christmas traditions from around the world. In France, children actually leave their shoes out so that Pere Noel, or Father Christmas, can leave presents in their shoes. And this is actually done on Christmas Eve. And on Christmas Day, the birth of Christ is actually reenacted in cathedral squares, and they actually use actors as well as little puppets to recreate the scene.
And very, very traditional in most homes in France are nativity scenes, or cruches, and they consist not just of the holy family, but also of little saints, which in French is santons. And these have been created from molds that have been passed down from generation to generation. As you can imagine, the nativity scenes are very unique. The cr?ches are homemade, and the santons are traditionally sold throughout the Christmas season at different markets and at different venues. And this is something that's been going on, as I said, for generations. And some of the food in France, actually, that they eat sort of varies from region to region. In some areas they eat goose. In another they eat oysters. And a traditional dessert in France is the Christmas log, or the Busche de Noel. And that is very popular, and most homes have the Christmas log. Christmas trees are not really quite as common in France. It actually never really caught on.
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要等到一月才能开礼物，真是折磨小朋友啊。
Hi. I'm Karina Fraley for Expert Village, and today we're talking about Christmas traditions from around the world. In Italy, the Christmas season actually lasts about three weeks, and starts eight days before Christmas, and that time period is called the Novena. During the Novena, the children of the town go from door to door singing songs and reciting Christmas poems. And about the week before Christmas, they dress up like shepherds and go door-to-door reciting poems again, only this time collecting money so that they can buy Christmas presents.
Now they actually observe a very strict fast the night before Christmas Eve, and then on Christmas Eve there is a huge feast with tons of food, as I'm sure you can imagine. Then on Christmas Day, they celebrate Christmas and the pope comes out of the Vatican at noon and gives the blessing to the country. The children, however, in Italy, have to wait until January 6th to open their presents. So, if you think you have it bad waiting until Christmas morning, try living in Italy.
There's actually a legend that has it that there was a witch who used to fly around on a broomstick, and was told by the three wise men of Jesus Christ's birth, but she gets so busy and distracted that she didn't get to him in time, and lost the star and has been wandering about on her broom ever since, and she leaves presents for all the children at every single house in hopes that Jesus is at one of those homes. So, as you can see, it is a little bit different than our traditional Christmas, but it sounds like a whole lot of fun in Italy."
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