英语词汇christmas的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Christmas. Christmas simply means Christ’s mass. The Christian holiday celebrates Christ’s birth, but there are no trustworthy records of the real date—August 28, May 20, April 19 or 20, November 17, and March 28 having all been suggested by scholars as more accurate than December 25. In northern Europe, Christmas was originally a pagan feast celebrating the winter solstice, a time when ancient peoples built great bonfires to give the winter sun god strength and to receive him. The ear- ly church fathers wisely chose a day near the winter solstice as the date to celebrate Christ’s birth, the return of light becoming associated with the hope of the world in the birth of the savior.

词汇	christmas
词源	Christmas. Christmas simply means Christ’s mass. The Christian holiday celebrates Christ’s birth, but there are no trustworthy records of the real date—August 28, May 20, April 19 or 20, November 17, and March 28 having all been suggested by scholars as more accurate than December 25. In northern Europe, Christmas was originally a pagan feast celebrating the winter solstice, a time when ancient peoples built great bonfires to give the winter sun god strength and to receive him. The ear- ly church fathers wisely chose a day near the winter solstice as the date to celebrate Christ’s birth, the return of light becoming associated with the hope of the world in the birth of the savior.
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