Christmas according to the Czechs

Christmas Tree
Czech families celebrate Christmas on December 24th and in the center of the event is the Baby Jesus called in Czech “Jezisek” (say something like: Yesheesheck) who is imaginary person who gives presents under the Christmas tree.
The tree is usually spruce, pine or deal decorated by glass balls and some various wooden staff or cookies, sweets, candles etc.
For the evening dinner traditionally carp is served with potato salad, before fish soup.
Christmas evening is considered as the most important holiday of the year and is focused especially on children who believes that Baby Jesus is real and it gives them dreamed gifts.
So couple of the snaps from our tonight celebration follows:
By: Standa - Posted:
Wednesday December 24th, 2008 at 11:51 PM Category: General.
Tags: Czech, Tradition
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