Christmas is celebrated on the [?] in England, with a Christmas for the whole family .During the weeks before Christmas Day, English people send , watch nativity plays and go to services. They also decorate their homes and churches with green [?], paper decorations and colourful [?]
Many of the Christmas [?] in England began long before Jesus was born. They came from earlier festivals which had nothing to do with the Christian church. Long time ago people had mid-winter [?] when the days were shortest and the sunlight weakest. They believed that their ceremonies would give the sun back its [?]. The Romans, for example, held the festival of Saturnalia around 25 December. They decorated their homes with [?] to remind them of Saturn, their harvest god, to return the following spring. Some of these customs and traditions were adopted by early Christians as part of their celebrations of Jesus' birthday. In Victorian times some new ideas such as , Christmas cards and crackers were added to the celebrations