Hungarian Christmas

            Hungarian people celebrate Christmas on 24 night, on 25 and 26 in December every year. Christmas is the celebration of love and people celebrate it with their families and not with their friends. Christmas celebrate Jesus’ birthday. Before Christmas, there is Advent, which is the period of waiting Christmas. At Christmas everything is decorated everything is bright and lights are everywhere.

            On 24 night being the Holy Night people give gifts to each other. Before Holy Night for more days, people buy presents and wrap them in. Hungarians carry the earlier bought pine-tree into the house, and decorate it. In the evening adults put the presents under the Christmas-tree. If  young children are in a family adults tell them, that Jesus brought the presents, and put them under the tree. Children stay in an other room, and wait while Jesus rings the bell. Afterwars they excitingly run towards the tree, and wonderly open the gifts. In the mentime pleasant Christmas music can be played. Later the family stand embrancing each other near the Christmas-tree and wach the candles how they burn.

            According to people of other countries on the 24th evening Santa Claus flies around the world. He has red suit, white beard and hair and a flying sleight, which is pulled by raindeers. He is an elderly, kindhearted, chubby man, who gives gifts to people. He lands with his sleight on the roof of hauses and descends in the chimney. He puts presents under the tree, drinks milk and flies to the next house. On the 25th morning people find the presents and everybody gets that present that they wanted.

            On 25 and 26 people generally visit their relatives to eat and talk together.

            There are some typical Christmas food in Hungary. Not only is bejgli typical Christmas cake, which is a plain cake filled with poppy seed or nut,but also popular sweet is the fondant, which is a wee stuffed chocolate wrapping colorful, decorative paper. The fish, fishsoup, jelly are also characteristic food. Altough turkey comes from America is already spread in Hungary, too.

            I fancy Christmas, it is my favourite celebration. Families are together, and everything is wonderful. As the saying goes to give is better, then to get. I agree with it because it is marvellous feeling, when you see, that somebody is pleased by your present.