Christmas has plenty of fascinating traditions. Some are purely religious, while others are the easy type. There are countries that practice their Christmas traditions differently from the others. Obviously, Christmas customs and traditions vary all over the world. It changes from region to region, and from country to country. Famous traditions such as gift giving, Christmas tree decorating, the use of yuletide logs and holly bough and many others are pretty much common to almost all places.
In countries who are predominantly occupied by Christians, Christmas happen to be the most important holiday of the year in terms of cost-effectiveness. In United Kingdom, this special holiday is celebrated for 12 days following December 25. This tradition usually starts with a big festival and banquet and ends on the Feast of the Epiphany.
This tradition of lengthening the festival is fast becoming famous by the year. Christmas festival starts weeks before the actual day both in the United States and United Kingdom to prolong the shopping days of the event and also to consider more time for meeting and greeting friends, family and loved-ones.
For countries celebrating Christmas on December 25, they call the day before Christmas "Christmas eve" and the day after by different names. In Germany and Poland, they call it the Second Christmas Day. Commonwealth countries call it "Boxing Day" and Irish and Romanians call it "St. Stephen’s Day".
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