A Christmas gift or Christmas gift is a gift given in celebration of Christmas.
Christmas gifts
are often exchanged on Christmas Eve (December 2nd,. Gift-giving began long before Christmas was set as a day to remember the birth of Christ. Although Christmas became a tradition in the 4th century, gift giving during the holidays is of Roman origin.It was part of a celebration offered to the Roman god Saturn, considered the god of agriculture who provided vegetation and fertility throughout the year. The focus on giving to children may have been promoted later by initiatives to reduce urban street fuss at Christmas, and by parents interested in keeping children away from the corrupting influences of those streets. One of the most well-known and religiously preserved traditions of the Christmas season is the giving of gifts. Dickens' subsequent Christmas story coincided with a revival of the Christmas holiday in the midst of Victorian culture.
Although the current Christmas festival is an annual tradition that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, the custom of exchanging gifts is the product of Victorian inventiveness, the joy of ancient Rome and medieval interpretations of early Christian narratives. If newspaper advertisements from the early 19th century that promoted Bibles as Christmas gifts for children are any indication, parents of this time seem to have maintained a similar approach to providing spiritual value to their children. His themes of festive generosity and family reunions accompany a story in which the stingy Ebenezer Scrooge transforms into a kinder man and wakes up on Christmas Day with the urge to make a donation and give gifts. The hustle and bustle of the season sometimes hide the reasons for the tradition of giving at Christmas.
The battle for Christmas focuses on tensions between New York's elites and their working classes, but during this same period, a middle class began to emerge in New York and other northern cities, and the reinvention of Christmas also served its purposes. Understanding why giving gifts to children (and, by gradual extension, to adults) became part of this new Christmas tradition requires expanding the story of Nissenbaum. Sometimes these gifts are in the form of money, like a Christmas voucher; other times, in the form of gift vouchers. The tradition of giving at Christmas is centuries old and reminds people of the magical birth of Christ in a stable long time ago.
In part, the result of Protestant resistance to so many holidays in the 16th century can also be attributed to the popularity of Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem The Night Before Christmas and Charles Dickens' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. The popularity of this custom grew after the positive reception of the 1823 poem The Night Before Christmas and the novel A Christmas Carol from 1843. Economist Joel Waldfogel noted that, due to the mismatch between what the gifted value the gift and the value paid by the giver, gifts lose between a tenth and a third of their value; he calls it the loss of Christmas dead weight. The custom of giving at Christmas was a natural adoption of these and other seasonal customs, such as the ceremonial lighting of candles, songs of celebration and the celebration of big holidays.
