英语春节的手抄报作文（20篇）

Chinese New Year starts with the new moon on the first day of the new year

and ends on the the full days later. In china,people regard Spring Festival as

the most important thing.People studied and worked throughout the year.No matter

how far and how busy, they must do their best to go back home.Thats a tradition

and now becoming a habit. During this time,transport is extremely busy.Although

the way is difficult,it cant reduce the urgent feeling of going home.I cant

describe this feeling,only the people that experienced it can

understand.Actually,on one hand,people miss their family,and they need to get

comfort in the family.On the other hand,getting together is a symbol of

blessedness and auspiciousness.People in other country dont have this

consciousness that going home is necessary.For example,American could celebrate

the Christmas in everywhere they like or with anybody.This diversity is

occasioned by different culture between two countries.

On Spring festivals eve,the whole family prepare the dinner.Of

course,dumplings is essential.In the

evening,family members always sit at the television and watch Spring

Festival Gala.At 0:00,people set off firecrackers and fireworks,at the same

time,children pay New Year,s call to old people.The old people give money to the

children as a lunar new year gift.Usually,people stay up late or all night.

On lunar New Years Day, the Chinese family eat vegetarian dumplings which

imply they will plain and neat in this year. People change their new

clothes,this stands for a new beginning.Next,people visit relatives with some

gifts.The second day is son-in-laws festival,the husband and married women

visit their side of the family.In a word,Chinese attach great importance to

Spring Festival.

I had a wonderfulspring festival holiday.I went to the park with my friends.We met at eight o‘clock at the school gate.We went to the park by bike.It was a sunnyday.We sat under a big tree and talkedwith each other.We talked about some movies andfunny things.Then we hadhamburgers and some drinks for lunch.Then we played some games.

We went home at 5pm.Although we were all fell tired,we were very happy.It was great fun!

The lunar New Year holiday, I stayed at home and not go out, really upset, and then left a telephone, right a phone call my aunt and cousin. The grown-ups package dumplings and after they come to my cousin and I have closed the door to play computer, heard mother and young aunt whispering in the outside. After a period of time, I and my cousin go out, hot dumplings already on the table. I use chopsticks to pick up a jiaozi, bite, immediately spit it out again, hot chocolate got burned inside me. "Strange, how can have chocolate?" I asked myself, to eat the one, and pick up a bite open look, one point one was preserved egg fillings. We are more strange, eat up one by one: egg yolk, candy, sausage, big jujube, apple... A wide range of a plate without a weigh appearance. A little later, a small dumpling is our "destroy".

As we gorge, mother and young aunt before hiding in the side smile keep not waist. Such as we had finished, they went out of the to say: "how, our colorful dumplings good!" "Well, well." I said, to wipe tears in eyes. "Whats wrong with you? Dont in" the lottery "?" Is "yes, I got the bag with red pepper dumplings!"

This is my colorful winter vacation, mixed, laugh youlei. ? Not bad!

The Spring Festival is an ancient holiday in China, is also the most important festival in each year during the Spring Festival comes, every family to make cleaning, cleaning tools, wash bedding, curtain, shu shu open channel silos. Everywhere brimming with joy and health, clean the happy atmosphere of the New Year. After cleaning, they began to paste the couplets again. There are many ways to call the couplet. For example: door pair, spring stick, pair. It is the background of The Times with neat, dual, concise and exquisite writing. Expressing good wishes is a unique cultural form of our country. Every Spring Festival, whether the city, or the countryside, everyone will choose carefully selected a pair of red Spring Festival couplets on the door, to add festive atmosphere to the festival. Chongqing is no exception.

Chongqing is a green mountain surrounded by green water. Chongqing people are also very particular, like the Chinese New Year, must follow the rules of the family to do things, such as: first not to go out, the third day of the second three relatives. The first one can not be cleaned, and the Chinese New Year is to eat dumplings, the family reunion round, and more important, that is to eat hot pot, the hot pot is the chongqing peoples favorite. The more red hot pot, the red hot pot on behalf of the future, the thought of hot pot must not forget the fish, represents the annual surplus. There are fish every year. Fish & throughout; With & other; Yu & throughout; The pronunciation is the same, so it means more than one year.

Do you know how it is made? Its not hard to make hot pot. The main ingredients are tripe, beef liver, beef, lean meat, and some vegetables and seasoning. Seasonings include: scallions, chilli, ginger, sichuan peppercorns, salt and so on. There is also a special hotpot base for hot pot. Fry them for a while, visible oil is red, when the degree of the smoke was choking in the beef soup, until the soup away, what do you like to eat what you put into the pot, after cooked can eat.

Looking at the hot pot layer after layer of oil, sichuan pepper floating on the top of the people can not help but feel like it is so hot, so hot. Eating chongqing hot pot is so refreshing, hot and spicy hot, rich in taste, self-cooking, enjoy it!

On New Years eve, families set off their firecrackers, and the streets and lanes were very lively. The children on the ground dance the lantern, look up to the sky, the fireworks are full of the sky how beautiful ah! You must be tempted to make a wish. By midnight, the sound of firecrackers was louder, and it was impossible to sleep.

After the Chinese New Year, it is time to visit the New Year, usually the younger generation to the elders to pay New Year, to buy the gift of the New Year. The elders cooked a delicious dish. The grown-ups held up their glasses and drank, and the children ate their food in a big way. They laughed and laughed together.

After the meal, the children and the children all guessed the riddle. See! What a lively Spring Festival in chongqing! The elders gave the children the lucky money they longed for, and the children jumped up and down with joy.

I love the festival in chongqing, especially the Spring Festival. How lively! I love chongqing people, I love chongqing peoples enthusiasm, I love chongqings Spring Festival more.

Spring Festival，Chinese New Year，is the most important festival for all of us. All family members get together on New YearEve to have a big meal.At the same time，everyone celebrates to each other.At about 12 oclock，some parents and children light crackers.The whole sky is lighted brightly. We may watch the fireworks excitedly.How busy it is！

On the first early moring of one year，many senior citizen get up early and they stick the reversed Fu or hang some couplets on the front door. Some houses windows are sticked on red paper cutlings.

The Chinese New Year lasts fifteen days. So during the fifteen days，we always visit our relatives from door to door. At that time，children are the happiest because they can get many red packets form their parents，grandparents，uncles，aunts and so on. The last day of the Chinese New Year is another festival. It names the Lantern Festival.

So the Chinese New Year comes to the end.

At home as usual, the Spring Festival in the twelfth month almost two dozen began, during this time, every family is busy cleaning the house, wash the sheets curtains, buy bacon sausage eat, such as preparation for the holiday. December 26 house posted red couplets, happy.

New Years eve is quite lively. Every cast eve of food, is full of the fragrance of wine meat, men, women, and children wear new clothes. The family around a round table on a happy night dinner, people will give children lucky money. Lights were blazing in every New Years eve, no gap. On the sky black, binjiang road began to put up the firecrackers, fireworks, the sky marina rice pattern of fireworks, firecrackers. Past midnight, the whole city fireworks firecrackers deafening, as if to make the whole house apart. On this night, in addition to the very children, no sleep standing, shou sui. I was a bit in the morning or so, fast asleep.

In the first month of a very different times and the New Years eve; Shop is closed, the door to pile up the setting off of firecrackers paper last night, the city is at rest. This day, most people have to go to the park, temple fairs, can be happy.

Yuanxiao, another climax of Spring Festival. The fifteenth day, every family decorated, good and beautiful. Will also be there and enjoy the moon round the moon, like a large tracts of nine. In front of the television in the home, see yuanxiao "joy", the family you my sentence, very happy.

Home colorful Spring Festival, the most happy is our children, besides can get lucky money, the most happy is that we can play at ease. New Years day is happy!

The 1051 day is at the end of the Spring Festival, the work of the work, to go to school, the school day restored peace forward.

照家乡的老规矩，春节差不多在腊月二十几就开始了，在这段期间，家家户户忙着打扫屋子，洗床单窗帘，买腊肉香肠等吃的东西，准备过年。腊月二十六家家贴红红的对联，可喜庆了。

除夕真热闹。家家赶做年夜菜，到处都是酒肉的香味，男女老少都穿起新衣。一家人围在一张圆桌上开开心心的吃连夜饭，大人们还会给孩子门压岁钱。除夕家家灯火通明，不许间断。天一黑，滨江路上就开始放起了鞭炮，礼花，满天五彩滨纷的礼花，鞭炮声不间断。午夜零时，全城礼花声鞭炮声震耳欲聋，仿佛要把整幢震垮似的。这一夜，除了很上的孩子，没有什么睡得站，都要守岁。我 却在凌晨一点方左右，就呼呼大睡了。

正月一的光景与除夕截然不同;铺户都关门休息，门前堆放着昨夜燃放的爆竹纸皮，全城都在休息。这天，大多数人们都去逛公园，逛庙会，可开心了。

元宵上市，春节的又一个高潮到了。正月十五，家家张灯结彩，红火而美丽。还会在那里赏月，圆圆的月亮，像一个大九的玉盘。家里在电视机面前，看元宵“喜乐会”，一家人你一句我一句的，十分开心。

家乡春节多姿多彩，最快乐的当属我们小朋友了，除了能得到压岁钱以外，最开心的是我们可以轻松自在的玩耍。过年真快乐!

正月十五一过就是春节的末尾了，该工作的工作，该上学的上学，日子恢复了往前的平静。

Ha ha! Our holiday again, that is, the Spring Festival. In our han Chinese, the Spring Festival commonly known as "New Years day."

Every year the Spring Festival, we will with firecrackers to grandpa and grandmas to granny, grandpa, grandma, uncle and aunt happy New Year. In kowtowing to granny, grandpa and grandma.

At noon a large family sit together to eat, to drink. Finished eating lunch to go to the relatives and friends happy New Year, say: "happy New Year!"

Over years, we go home together for dinner.

The second years wish: a happy, happy every day!

This is our Chinese Spring Festival! Is also our most happy holiday! I love our festival - the Spring Festival!

哈哈!我们的节日又到了，那就是——春节。在我们汉族，春节俗称“过年。”

每年的春节我们都会随着鞭炮声来到爷爷奶奶家，给老太、爷爷、奶奶、大伯和大娘拜年。在给老太、爷爷和奶奶磕头。

到了中午一大家子坐在一起吃饭，喝酒。吃完了午饭再去给亲戚朋友们拜年，再说一声：“新年快乐!”

拜完年，大家一起回家吃晚饭。

祝第二年里：开开心心、快快乐乐每一天!

这就是我们汉族的春节!也是我们最快乐的节日!我爱我们的节日——春节!

In my memory, a lot of things happened in the Spring Festival last year, but the happiest thing for me was to put up fireworks and watch the Spring Festival Gala.

On the thirty night of the year, after our family had finished the dinner, I could not wait to wait in front of the TV set, waiting for the start of the Spring Festival Gala. Eight oclock arrived at the end of the party. I cant keep my eyes on the TV, and I dont want to leave half a step, and Im afraid to miss a good program. The program of the Spring Festival Gala is quite a lot: there are cross talk, there is a little piece, and the singing and dancing acrobatics show, the most magical thing is magic and face change. Show than a fun, than a wonderful, we can sometimes be absorbed in one family, sometimes uproarious.

This night, I was so excited that I didnt sleep well overnight. How I wish the Spring Festival of 20XX came quickly, so that I could look at the Spring Festival Gala and fireworks as happy as last year.

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .Its to celebrate the lunar calendar s new year .In the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to set off firecrackers .Dumplings are the most traditional food .Children like the festival very much ,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .They can also get some money from their

parents. This money is given to children for good luck . People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune .

The Spring Festival lasts about 15 days long .People visit relatives and friends with the words “Have all your wishes ”. People enjoy the Spring Festival ,during this time they can have a good rest .

Today is the beginning of seven, I went to town with cousin, the Zhuo flag hill of watching a wonderful acrobatic Festival " to celebrate Chinese New year ".

We arrived, to find a show place, find a place to sit down, and then patiently waited for the show to start.

" The beginning of the show ", do not know who is shouting. We immediately back to god.

The first program is, little monkey riding old goat go rope. I saw the old goat carrying small monkey step by step on the rope, hey, too. Is really amazing! The next program is more splendid! For example: wire walking, the tiger jumped the ring of fire, lions and tigers, bears swing across the beauty slip exercise, air swing ... ... And this " new acrobatic show" the protagonist is mainly animal.

This " new acrobatic show" is really meaningful!

Nian Gao:The northerners eat Jiao Zi, but southerners like to eat Nian Gao, which translates to "New Year Cake". In Chinese, Gao is a homonym for high. Nian Gao is also called Nian Nian Gao, which is a homonym for "higher each year", symbolizing progress and promotion at work and in daily life and improvement in life year by year.

Nian Gao is a sweet, sticky, brown cake made from rice flour and sugar, a kind of glutinous white cake in the shape of rectangle. Often given as a gift, it is delicious when steamed, fried, fried with eggs or even eaten cold.

Given the importance of food in Chinese culture, it is not surprising that food plays a major role in Chinese New Year celebrations. "Lucky" foods are served through the two week Chinese New Year celebration, also called the Spring festival.

Spring Festival is the most importantand popular festival in China．Before Spring Festival ，the people usually clean and decorate their houses．And they go to the Flower Fairs to buy some flowers．During Spring Festival ，the adults usually give lucky money to children．

People often get together and have a big meal．Some people eat dumpling for dinner．

Winter vacation is coming.Were happy to welcome the holidays.Usually,winter vacation is funny because Spring Festival is during the vacation. www.t262.Com

Spring Festival is a excellent day for every Chinese,especially for children.During the festival,relatives go to visit each other and give presents to each other.then its the happy moment for children,children are given some lucky money.

But Im not a child any longer.I want to make the festival a little bit different. I plan to have a different day.Im going to sell some toys in the flower market.I will ask my friends to join me.If i earn some money,Ill buy some presents to my parents.Well,its my turn to give back to my parents for their love.

An important activity during the Spring Festival is bainian (to pay a New Year call). People start to pay New Year calls from the lunar New Years Day, that is, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Ever since the Ming Dynasty in the 14th century, ordinary people have begun to exchange greeting cards on this day.

春节期间的重要活动是拜年。人们从农历新年，也就是，农历的第一个月的第一天就开始拜年了。自从十四世纪明朝开始普通人在这一天也开始交换贺卡。

On the morning of the lunar New Years Day, people get up very early and call on others. The earlier one does so, the more sincere he is. Moreover, people wear new clothes and a new cap, symbolizing that a new year has begun.

在农历新年的早上，人们起得很早拜访别人。越早越有诚意。此外，人们还会穿上新衣服，戴新帽，这象征着新的一年开始了。

The younger generation should call on their elders first, such as the grandfather, grandmother, father and mother, wishing them "Good health" and "Long life". Then the elders give children some money in a red envelope as a New Year gift. After that, people call on their relatives, friends and neighbors. As "big tangerine" is a homonym for "very lucky" in Chinese, so people often present red big tangerines as a gift while paying a New Year call.

年轻的一代去拜访他们的长辈，如爷爷，奶奶，爸爸，妈妈，祝他们“健康”、“长寿”。然后，长辈会给孩子们红包作为新年礼物。在那之后，人们给亲戚，朋友和邻居拜年。由于“大橘子”是“很幸运”的中文谐音，所以人们常常把红色大橘子作为拜年礼物。

Nowadays, besides greeting cards, people also use telephones and e-mails to pay New Year calls.

如今，除了贺卡，人们还用电话和电子邮件进行拜年。

The Spring Festival

The Spring Festival， Chinese New Year，is the most important festival for all of us. All family members get together on New YearEve to have a big meal.At the same time， everyone celebrates to each other.At about 12 oclock，some parents and children light crackers.The whole sky is lighted brightly. We may watch the fireworks excitedly.How busy it is!

On the first early moring of one year， many senior citizen get up early and they stick the reversed Fu or hang some couplets on the front door. Some houses windows are sticked on red paper cutlings.

The Chinese New Year lasts fifteen days. So during the fifteen days， we always visit our relatives from door to door. At that time， children are the happiest because they can get many red packets form their parents，grandparents， uncles， aunts and so on. The last day of the Chinese New Year is another festival. It names the Lantern Festival.

So the Chinese New Year comes to the end.

The Spring Festival is our traditional festival, is also every household had a holiday. We should prepare firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures, eat, lanterns and clothes. Whenever the Spring Festival, is also the most happy when my mood.

When the Spring Festival, every household will prepare many things, you see the people on the street people mountain people sea appear cheery. Mom and I went to buy necessities, we bought a lot of things such as the Spring Festival couplets bought New Year paintings. The most let me happy is I bought some firecrackers. Mother gave me to buy a new suit of clothes. Arranged to buy back, we have to clean the house, mother hang lanterns in the morning to get up, dad is the Spring Festival couplet and blessing all the door, I put all dried fruit in the plate, placed neatly.

Thirty day, mother put on new clothes for me, I was so happy! In the afternoon do mom and dad together I love to eat food more, eat family reunion dinner together when the whole family were very happy. Eat a big dinner the whole family sitting together watching the Spring Festival gala, holiday is wonderful, sketch, songs, and singing and dancing. The adults are making dumplings. Is nearly twelve o clock, rang with firecrackers outside. Dad carrying firecrackers went downstairs, and I came downstairs I smell the fireworks, we put many firecrackers, I also put a fireworks. Just a little hurriedly ran back, wait for a while still wasnt ask dad how havent! I went to take a look! Father said: "no collapse over", I said: "Ill be careful," I went from a point, finally lit, the colorful firecrackers like a blooming flower in the air, beautiful. Finished put firecrackers, we eat dumplings, began to happy New Year, everyone gave me lucky money.

A New Year begins, hope the whole family can happiness. I hope my learning progress.

春节是我们最传统的节日，也是每家每户都过的节日。大家要准备鞭炮、春联、年画、吃的、灯笼和衣服。每当过春节的时候，也是我的心情最高兴的时候。

过春节时，每家每户都要准备很多东西，你看大街上的人人山人海显得喜气洋洋。妈妈和我去买年货，我们买了春联买了年画等很多东西。最让我高兴的是我买了一些鞭炮。妈妈还给我买了新衣服。年货买回来了，我们要把家里打扫得干干净净的，妈妈一早就把灯笼挂了起来，爸爸也把春联和福字帖到门上，我把干果都放进盘子里，摆放的整整齐齐的。

年三十那天，妈妈给我穿上了新衣服，我高兴极了!下午的时候爸爸、妈妈一起做好多我爱吃的菜，一起吃团圆饭时全家人都很开心。吃过团圆饭全家人坐在一起看春节联欢晚会，节日很精彩，有小品、有歌曲、还有歌舞。大人们都在包饺子。快十二点了，外面响起了鞭炮声。我和爸爸拿着鞭炮下了楼，到了楼下我闻到了烟火味，我们放了很多鞭炮，我还放了一个烟花。刚一点就连忙跑了回来，等了一会还没着就问爸爸怎么还没着啊!我去看一看吧!爸爸说：“不行小心崩着 ”，我说：“我会小心的 ”我去从点了一下，终于点着了，那五颜六色的鞭炮就像在空中盛开的花朵，美丽极了。放完了鞭炮，我们吃起了饺子，开始拜年了，每人都给了我压岁钱。

新的一年开始了，希望全家人都能幸福。希望我的学习进步。

The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. It is on January 1st according to the Chinese lunar calendar(中国的农历). It’s China’s New Year’s Day. So usually a month before the festival people begin to buy food clothes and decorations(装饰) for houses.

About a week before the festival housewives are busy preparing the new year dinner. And they will do a lot of washing and cleaning in the houses. People who are far away on business are hurrying to return home for the new year’s family reunion（团聚）.

On New Year Eve each family will gather tighter eating talking and watching TV for almost the whole night. And there will be some interesting programmes on TV. The children are the happiest of all because they can get presents from parents or grandparents.

On Lunar New Year’s Day after getting up people will eat dumplings. When they meet their neighbours or friends they’ll say: “Happy New Year!”

I am ready to spend with together my family on the Spring Festival I’am going to see my grandparents and friengs . I ’m going to Diseyland in HONGKONG with my parents I will revise lessinos do exercise every day help the old and children .

The Spring Festival is a major festival for Chinese people. It has a long history and a splendid cultural background. And many small rules and little superstitions of the Spring Festival are the same.

Everyone should know that one thing is very important, for the spring festival. Lets not look down on this matter. For example, the fruit is not so careless, not all the fruits are suitable for the ancestors and gods. Choose a good fruit. For example: apple, orange, kumquat in peace, full house, orange, xinxiangshicheng. Like pears, not as a tribute because some people think pear and "leave" is the word homonym. So its not welcome. And its Bananas - a lot of trouble. So some fruit is not available.

There is only a part of fruit dumplings as a tribute tribute must not put in pairs of. As for the sugar tribute to put candy not fudge. Because the sweetness is hard enough.

For even one candle, incense, and so on, but the most important is the paper, paper to be really money before they can burn, but also a main pressure, which could be felt more sincere.

Whether it is true or false, but at least it is the reason why we must have our ancestors talked about. I hope that these Spring Festival common sense can let more and more post - 80s, and the post-90s know how important the Spring Festival is in the eyes of our Chinese people. If the Spring Festival does not have any taboos, it will mean that not so many people pay attention to it. The more rules, the more the significance of the Spring Festival.

Today is the annual traditional festival in China, "Spring Festival". The morning sun was still in bed, I was like the sound of firecrackers to wake up. I get up and wash, this is my brother and sister have been wearing new clothes neat and I go to visit my grandparents and grandparents give us pay New Years call, each made a big red, I opened the door to stay, which contained a $100 bill, I like to eat honey, happy the flowers.

After eating dumplings, my mother said that I dont have to write my homework today. I can play a day with my brother and sister. I am very happy after I hear it.

The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. On this day, every family has to eat dumplings, set off firecrackers, put up couplets and hang lanterns, which is the happiest and happiest day of the year.

In south China, the favorite and most typical dishes were nian gao, sweet  steamed glutinous rice(糯米)pudding and zong zi (glutinous rice wrapped up in  reed(芦苇)leaves), another popular delicacy.

In the north, steamed-wheat bread (man tou) and small meat dumplings were the  preferred food. The tremendous amount of food prepared at this time was meant to  symbolize abundance and wealth for the household.

Christmas (Christmas), every year December 25, is a traditional festival of the church calendar, it is celebrated by christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. At Christmas, most of the Catholic church will first on December 24, Christmas Eve, that is, the date, December 25, held at midnight mass, and some of the Christian church will hold good tidings, and then celebrate Christmas on December 25, And another big branch, orthodox Christian Christmas celebration in every year on January 7th.

Santa Claus

The legend of Santa Claus coming Scandinavia in thousands of years ago. Division wisdom in Norse mythology, art, poetry, the god Odin of war, the cold winter season, mounted his horse mounts eight feet galloping Yu Tianya promontory, encouraging people to distribute the gift. At the same time, his son thor with red lightning as weapons and the gods very dark battle a snow and ice, finally defeat the cold. According to legend, pagan Santa Claus is descended from the god Odin. There are legends say Santa Claus from saint Nicholas, so Santa Claus also called st. Nicholas. Because most of these stories carry forward the spirit of Christ, its origin, the plot tends to be forgotten, however, Santa Claus is etched in the spiritual world.

Every year at Christmas, Santa Claus on reindeer, holy child holding a Christmas tree came, as the world changes, writers and artists began to describe the Santa Claus as today we are familiar with the color, the image of the white beard. Different country and culture at the same time also has the different explanation for Santa Claus. In Germany, legend he dressed up as an altar boy put nuts and apples in the kids shoes. He take a sidecar roaming around, observe the behavior of people, especially children, if performance is good, will get the apples, nuts, sugar, and many other prizes. Bad kids get a whip. Parents have a brainwave adopted the legend to encourage the children to obey. Today, Christmas has become a national holiday. Santa Claus has become a symbol of the most beloved and traditional Christmas. , he was driving the reindeer pulling the sleigh full of toys and gifts from door to door gifts for every child happy old elf image has been deeply in peoples memory.

圣诞节(Christmas)，每年12月25日，是教会年历的一个传统节日，它是基督徒庆祝耶稣基督诞生的庆祝日。在圣诞节，大部分的天主教教堂都会先在12月24日的耶诞夜，亦即12月25日凌晨举行子夜弥撒，而一些基督教会则会举行报佳音，然后在12月25日庆祝圣诞节;而基督教的另一大分支——东正教的圣诞节庆祝则在每年的1月7日。

圣诞老人

圣诞老人的传说在数千年前的斯堪的纳维亚半岛即将出现。北欧神话中司智慧，艺术，诗词，战争的奥丁神，寒冬时节，骑上他那八脚马坐骑驰骋于天涯海角，惩恶扬善，分发礼物。与此同时，其子雷神着红衣以闪电为武器与冰雪诸神昏天黑地恶战一场，最终战胜寒冷。据异教传说，圣诞老人为奥丁神后裔。也有传说称圣诞老人由圣·尼古拉而来，所以圣诞老人也称St.Nicholas.因这些故事大多弘扬基督精神，其出处，故事情节大多被淡忘，然而圣诞老人却永驻人们精神世界。

每年圣诞节，圣诞老人骑在驯鹿上，圣童手持圣诞树降临人间，随着世事变迁，作家和艺术家开始把圣诞老人描述成我们今日熟悉的着红装，留白胡子的形象。同时不同的国度和文化对圣诞老人也有了不同的解释。在德国，传说他扮成圣童把坚果和苹果放在孩子们鞋里。他乘双轮马车四处漫游，观察人们的行为，尤其是小孩，如果表现好，将会得到苹果、坚果、糖等诸多奖品。坏孩子则得一鞭子。家长们灵机一动纷纷采用此传说来鼓励孩子们听话。如今,圣诞节已经成为一个全民的节日。圣诞老人已经成为圣诞节最受喜爱的象征和传统。他赶着驯鹿，拉着装满玩具和礼物的雪橇挨家挨户给每个孩子送礼物的快乐老精灵的形象已深深地留在人们的记忆中。