next year will be blessed, if bread, salt and fire will be on the christmas table
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If the sky is starry in Christmas night, then will be rich harvest in next year. If the sky is cloudy, will be crop failure. Next year will be blessed, If bread, salt and fire will be on the Christmas table. If snowstorm is on Christmas, will be much honey next year. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
If the sky is starry in Christmas night, then will be rich harvest in next year. If the sky is cloudy, will be crop failure.
Next year will be blessed, If bread, salt and fire will be on the Christmas table.
If snowstorm is on Christmas, will be much honey next year.
If there is a lot of ice-ferns in Christmas, will be rich harvest next year.
You can’t get your gift until you have recited poem about Christmas
It is one of presents, which you can get in a lottery
We can’t imagine Christmas without gingerbreads
How we get enough money in next year? We just put fishes scales into purse!
It was our christmas tree in
last year
If you want healthy teeth, you have run 3 times around your house barefooted
We always put presents under Christmas tree
Another Christmas tree in our home
In Latvia the Christmas celebration is know as Ziemassvetki or winter festival.
Latvia celebrates Christmas on December 25, but Christmas Eve is
December 24.
In Latvia the Christmas begins with the Advent
season.
Advent wreaths can be seen everywhere as
Latvians busily shop for Christmas presents for
family and friends.
Christmas gifts
Latvia is closely associated with the Christmas tree, and some legends say it was in Riga that
the first Christmas tree was decorated in the beginning of the
16th century.
Christmas tree decorations
On Christmas Eve the family gathers around
the tree and sings traditional Christmas
carols.
Traditional foods served during this time include
braised cabbage,pork, pig's snout, pig's feet, beans, whole grains, peas,also
gingerbreads, and mandarin's
Braised cabbage
Peas
Beans
Gingerbreads
Mandarin's
Gifts are exchanged following the meal.In order to get a present you have
to recite a short poem while standing next to the
Christmas tree!
Christmas Eve is a celebration of the birth of Jesus, but it is also a celebration of the Winter Solstice, the time after December 24th when the days become longer and the nights become shorter again.
If there is lot of snow in Christmas, will be much rain about Midsummer Day.