Indian Christmas Traditions

Everybody likes to celebrate festivals, because on festivals, you can meet each other and celebrate with great enthusiasm. Christmas is a special festival broadly celebrated by people all across the world. Christmas is celebrated with great joy. Christmas symbolizes triumph. Christmas is a festival of family traditions as you can see it is celebrated worldwide. It is very much in tune with the Indian people's emotions. It is celebrated in India with Indian Christmas traditions.

Talking about Indian Christmas traditions, on the occasion of Christmas, Christians decorate mango, banana trees rather than conventional pine tree. They also decorate the churches with beautiful red flowers. Christmas is a celebration of humankind for Christians. Christmas is a major festival and has special importance in everybody's life. In India, this festival has great importance as India is well-known for its unanimity in multiplicity worldwide. The Christmas celebrations show that many people belong to different regions even celebrate Christmas in the same manner as the Indian Christians celebrate following Christmas traditions.

As the Christmas is the most significant festival in India, Christians light tiny oil-burning lamps for the decoration. People clean their houses for giving it a bright look. Traditions for celebrating Christmas differ in the huge vicinity of India. They give cute and lovely Christmas gifts to their family members and relatives as a token of love. These gifts are also distributed to the poor people. Decorating the houses and churches with the beautiful poinsettia flowers is the tradition of Christians in India. Talking about South Indian Christians, they put very small clay lamps on the walls as well as rooftops of their house similar to what Hindu people do on the Diwali festival.

All the hotels in Goa are fully booked during Christmas festival. If you are planning to stay in any hotel of Goa, in advance you need to plan well. Indian traditions as well as customs have a great influence on the Christians. This is reflected in their decoration as several Christians in India decorate the house with mango leaves. Churches are wonderfully decorated with candles. You can even see Caroling processions on roads.

X-mass tresses are also seen in the urban trees that are decorated with familiar colorful streamers, stars, toys and tinsels. On Christmas, nativity plays in churches showcase the birth of Jesus and even the scenes of Jesus's lives, which generally end with singing holy songs. One can even see the Santa is making an entertainment for the small children with a big smile on his face, toys as gifts and fat belly.

Now let us have a look at how the Christmas is celebrated in various parts of India.

• Northwest India: The tribal Christians in Northwest India, who belong to Bhil tribe, go for a week to sing their Carols.

• Mumbai: There is a convention to portray confinement panoramas in Mumbai. Christians in Mumbai decorate their houses with big stars.

If we see, the traditions for celebrating Christmas differ in the huge vicinity of India. These differences are mostly due to the restricted cultural influence.