>Every country has it own Christmas tradition. >In very part of Germany the Christmas tradition is different,too. > >This is a story about 80 years ago in Sachsen. In the saxony. >The 'Heiligabend' Christmas eve is like any other working day. >Even the meal was at that day very simple. >At midnight the people get up to cut the Christstollen. >The Christstollen was baked a few weeks ahead before Christmas. >On Christmas morning every one got up very early,because at 6 am was >the first church service and no one would like to miss it. >After the church service when the family got home every stove would be >lit.Even the one in the 'Gute Stube' living room. >Because the stove in the living room only was lit on sundays. >Every one had a meal together. After the meal was the 'Bescherung'and >the opening of the presents. >In the living room the mother would trim the christmas tree, the children >where not aloud to see the tree before the 'Bescherung'. >That was a long waiting period for the children to finally open there >presents. Even the children from the rich family didn't get very many >presents. >>From the near by 'Erzgebirge' frontier mountains between the Saxony and >Czech-Slovakia many people made hand carved toys ,angels ,dolls >and many decorations for the tree. THe 'Riesengebirge' that is a mountain >range in the frontier mountains many 'Glassbläsereinen' >glass blowers made beautiful christmas tree balls. >The poor families made christmas stars from straw for the christmas tree >decorations.Also nuts and apples where hang in the tree. >Some families melted some lead and poured it for good luck. >The church going families would not do it, they where more superstitious, >they said it was not fitting for Christmas. >For the Christmas dinner they would have 12 different foods to eat. From >the 12 different foods a little bit had to be left over, that was the >custom,that the family had enough to eat in the coming 12 month of the next >year. Only the roasted goose and the >Klösse, every one could have as much as they wanted. >That is a story a g-aunt told me when I was a little girl. >She lived in the Saxony >Katharina _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com