Westerners with red, green, white tricolor as the Christmas color, Christmas comes every household is decorated with Christmas colors. Red with Christmas flowers and Christmas candles. Green is the Christmas tree. It is the main Christmas decorations, with cut down to Chinese fir, lipper category is the evergreen tree of tower decoration. Hanging above the colorful lights, gifts and paper flowers, also lit Christmas candles.
Red and white set each other off becomes an interest is Santa Claus, he is the most popular figure in Christmas activities. Before going to sleep on Christmas Eve, the children want to be in front of the fireplace or put a sock beside a pillow, waiting for Santa Claus to fill it in the gift is put in the socks. In the west, playing Santa Claus is also a kind of custom.
Christmas customs numerous, including worldly, religion, national, Christmas, vary widely between countries. Most people are familiar with Christmas symbols and activities, such as Christmas tree, Christmas ham, Yule log, Holly, mistletoe and gifts, is from the early Christian missionaries Asatru pagan midwinter holiday absorption in the Yule. On winter solstice celebration there long before the Christian to northern was widely carried out, the word Christmas today is still in Norse pagan jul (or yule). The Christmas tree is considered the first appeared in Germany.
The Pope I slightly I didn't try to ban the popular pagan festival, it is to permit a Christian priest Christian meaning to explain to them, he allowed most of the customs continue to exist, just a little correction, or remain the same. Transactions between religion and government authorities and celebrate to continue to Christmas. In Christianity theocracy prosperous areas, such as Cromwell's England and early New England colonies, the celebration is forbidden. 3. After the Russian revolution, celebrate Christmas was banned in 75 the Soviet union, the Soviet communist party regime. Even in nowadays some christians, such as Jehovah's witnesses, some fundamentalists and Puritan organization, the Christmas is still regarded as the bible no recognition of the pagan festival, and refuse to celebrate.
Since the Christmas celebration customs popular in northern Europe, combined with the northern hemisphere winter Christmas decoration and the Santa Claus myth appeared
西方人以紅、綠、白三色為聖誕色，聖誕節來臨時家家戶戶都要用聖誕色來裝飾。紅色的有聖誕花和聖誕蠟燭。綠色的是聖誕樹。它是聖誕節的主要裝飾品，用砍伐來的杉、柏一類呈塔形的常青樹裝飾而成。上面懸掛著五顏六色的彩燈、禮物和紙花，還點燃著聖誕蠟燭。
紅色與白色相映成趣的是聖誕老人，他是聖誕節活動中最受歡迎的人物。西方兒童在聖誕夜臨睡之前，要在壁爐前或枕頭旁放上一隻襪子，等候聖誕老人在他們入睡後把禮物放在襪子內。在西方，扮演聖誕老人也是一種習俗。
聖誕習俗數量眾多，包括世俗，宗教，國家，聖誕相關，國與國之間差別很大。大部分人熟悉的聖誕符號及活動，如聖誕樹，聖誕火腿，聖誕柴，冬青，槲寄生以及互贈禮物，都是基督教傳教士從早期Asatru異教的冬至假日Yule里吸收而來。對冬至的慶祝早在基督教到達北歐之前就在那裡廣為進行了，今天聖誕節一詞在斯堪的納維亞語裡依然是異教的jul(或yule)。聖誕樹被認為最早出現在德國。
教宗額我略一世沒有試圖去禁止流行的異教節日，而是允許基督教的教士對它們賦予基督教的意義重新解釋，他允許了大部分的習俗繼續存在，只是稍加修正，甚至保持原樣。宗教及政府當局與慶祝者之間的交易使聖誕節得以繼續。在基督教神權統治繁榮的地區，如克倫威爾治下的英格蘭和早期新英格蘭殖民地，慶祝活動是被禁止的3。在俄國革命後，聖誕慶祝被蘇聯蘇維埃共產黨政權禁止了75年。即使在現今一些基督教派里，例如耶和華見證人、一些基要派和清教徒組織，仍舊把聖誕節看作沒有聖經認可的異教徒節日，並拒絕慶祝。
自從聖誕慶祝習俗在北歐流行後，結合著北半球冬季的聖誕裝飾和聖誕老人神話出現了