初中圣诞节英语作文500字【三篇】

1、青，取之于蓝而青于蓝；冰，水为之而寒于水初中圣诞节英语作文500字【三篇】 【导语】寒冬里的浪漫，如雪花飞舞。风声里的心语，似藤蔓缠绵。烛光摇曳的圣诞，银铃在耳畔轻响。爱人对视的目光中，藏着对未来共同的期盼。圣诞快乐！我整理了初中圣诞节英语作文500字【三篇】，快来看看吧！希望能帮助到你更多相关讯息请关注我！ 【篇1】 the original santa claus, st. nicholas, was born in the ancient southeastern turkish town of lycia early in the fourth century. his generos

2、ity was legend, and he was particularly fond of children. we know this primarily through roman accounts of his patronage of youth, which eventually led to his becoming the patron saint of children. throughout the middle ages, and well beyond, he was referred to by many names none of them santa claus

3、. children today would not at all recognize the st. nick who brought gifts to european children hundreds of years ago except perhaps for his cascading white beard. he made his rounds in full red-and-white bishops robes, complete with twin peaked miter and crooked crozier. he was pulled by no fleet f

4、ooted reindeer, but coaxed in indolent donkey. and he arrived not late on christmas eve, but on his christian feast day, december 6. the gifts he left beside the hearth were usually small: fruit, nuts, hard candies, wood and clay figurines. during the protestant reformation of the sixteenth century,

5、 st. nicholas was banished from most european countries. replacing him were more secular figures, who in general were not at center stage at that point in history.the dutch kept the st. nicholas tradition alive. as the protector of sailors, st. nicholas graced the prow of the first dutch ship that a

6、rrived in america. and the first church built in new york city was named after him. the dutch brought with them to the new world two christmas items that were quickly americanized. in sixteenth century holland, children placed wooden shoes by the hearth the night of st. nicholass arrival. the shoes

7、were filled with straw, a meal for the saints gift laden donkey. in return, nicholas would insert a small treat into each clog. in america, the shoe was replaced with the stocking, hung by the chimney. the dutch spelled st. nicholas saint nikolass, which in the new world became sinterklass. later ch

8、anged to santa claus. much of modern day santa claus lore, including the reindeer drawn sleigh, originated in america. dr. clement clarke moore composed the night before christmas in 1822, to read to his children on christmas eve. the poem might have remained privately in the moore family if a frien

9、d had not mailed a copy of it (without authorial attribution) to a newspaper and became part of the santa legend. it was in america that santa put on weight. the rosy-cheeked, roly-poly santa is credited to the influential nineteenth-century cartoonist thomas nast. from 1863 until 1886, nast created

10、 a series of christmas drawings for harpers weekly. these drawings, executed over twenty years, exhibit a gradual evolution in santa from the pudgy, diminutive, elf-like creature of dr. moores immortal poem to the bearded, potbellied, life-size bell ringer familiar on street corners across america t

11、oday. nasts cartoons also showed the world how santa spent his entire year constructing toys, checking on childrens behavior, reading their requests for special gifts. his images were incorporated into the santa lore. santa is known throughout the world in many different names, such as: saint nikola

12、as (sinter klaas), from the dutch father christmas, from the english kris kringle, from the germans befana, from the italians bobouschka, from the russians (a grand motherly figure instead of a male) 【篇2】 christmas is a christian holiday held on december 25 which celebrates the birth of jesus christ

13、. eastern orthodox churches, which use the julian calendar to determine feast days, celebrate on january 7 by the gregorian calendar. both dates are merely traditional and neither is thought to be the actual birthdate of jesus. christs birth, or nativity, is said to fulfill old testament prophecies

14、concerning the coming of a messiah, or savior. the word christmas is derived middle english christemasse and from old english cristes m?sse.1 it is a contraction meaning christs mass. the name of the holiday is often shortened to xmas because roman letter x resembles the greek letter (chi), an abbre

15、viation for christ (?). in western countries, christmas has become the most economically significant holiday of the year. the popularity of christmas can be traced in part to its status as a winter festival. many cultures have their most important holiday in winter because there is less agricultural

16、 work to do at this time. examples of winter festivals that are believed by some to have influenced christmas include the pre-christian festivals of yule and saturnalia. in western culture, the holiday is characterized by the exchange of gifts among friends and family members, some of the gifts bein

17、g attributed to santa claus (also known as father christmas, saint nicholas, and father frost). however, various local and regional christmas traditions are still practiced, despite the widespread influence of american, british and australian christmas motifs disseminated by film, popular literature

18、, television, and other media. 【篇3】 christmas is a time for miracles.it is also a time when the dull things of daily life and the forecast of human hature gives way to a spiritual awakening.allow me to share with you one truly wonder of christmas. our miracle story comes from an incident that occurr

19、ed in flanders, belgium, at the dawn of world war i. on december 24th ,1914, german and english troops faced each other from the relative safety of their ditches across which no mans land lying between them. suddenly, the silence was broken, not by gunfire, but by the strains of silent night arising

20、 from the german position. it wasnt long before the english troops responded with a yuletide hymn of their own. then an amazing sight surprised the eyes of the english soldiers. a german soldier holding a small tree arranged with lighted candles began to walk across the land toward the english lines. this miraculous scene occasioned the declaration of a truce followed by english and german troops greeting one another, exchanging small gifts and singing songs of christmas. word of this i