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The celebratory traditions related in different nations with Christmas have a blend of pre-Christian, Christian, and common topics and origins. Popular current traditions of the occasion incorporate present giving, finishing an Advent date-book or Advent wreath, Christmas music and caroling, lighting a Christingle, seeing a Nativity play, a trade of Christmas cards, church benefits, an exceptional supper, and the show of different Christmas enrichments, including Christmas trees, Christmas lights, nativity scenes, festoons, wreaths, mistletoe, and holly. Moreover, a few firmly related and regularly exchangeable figures, known as Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, and Christkind, are related with conveying presents to youngsters amid the Christmas season and have their own group of conventions and lore. Because present giving and numerous different parts of the Christmas celebration include uplifted financial movement, the occasion has turned into a noteworthy occasion and a key deals period for retailers and organizations. The financial effect of Christmas has become consistently finished the previous couple of hundreds of years in numerous areas of the world.

"Christmas" is an abbreviated type of "Christ's mass". It is gotten from the Middle English Cristemasse, which is from Old English Crīstesmæsse, an expression initially recorded in 1038 took after by the word Cristes-messe in 1131. Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from Greek Khrīstos (Χριστός), an interpretation of Hebrew, "Savior", signifying "anointed"; and mæsse is from Latin missa, the festival of the Eucharist. The frame Christenmas was additionally verifiably utilized, yet is currently viewed as old and dialectal; it gets from Middle English Cristenmasse, truly "Christian mass" merry christmas images. Xmas is a shortened form of Christmas discovered especially in print, in light of the underlying letter chi (Χ) in Greek Khrīstos (Χριστός), "Christ", however various style guides debilitate its use; it has point of reference in Middle English Χρ̄es masse.

Notwithstanding "Christmas", the occasion has been known by different names all through its history. The Anglo-Saxons alluded to the devour as "midwinter", or, all the more once in a while, as Nātiuiteð (from Latin nātīvitās below). "Nativity", signifying "birth", is from Latin nātīvitās.  In Old English, Gēola (Yule) alluded to the period relating to December and January, which was in the end likened with Christian Christmas. "Noel" (or "Nowel") entered English in the late fourteenth century and is from the Old French noël or naël, itself at last from the Latin nātālis (diēs) signifying "birth (day)".

The authoritative accounts of Luke and Matthew both portray Jesus as being conceived in Bethlehem in Judea, to a virgin mother. In the Gospel of Luke record, Joseph and Mary make a trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem for the statistics, and Jesus is conceived there and laid in a manger. It says that heavenly attendants declared him a friend in need for all individuals, and shepherds came to worship him. In the Matthew account, magi take after a star to Bethlehem to convey blessings to Jesus, conceived the lord of the Jews. Ruler Herod arranges the slaughter of all the young men under two years of age in Bethlehem, yet the family escapes to Egypt and later settles in Nazareth.