12/25： Christmas
12/26：Boxing Day (a holiday traditionally celebrated the weekday or Saturday following Christmas Day)
A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge(also means stingy) and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
Charles John Huffam Dickens：an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
David Copperfield, many elements of the novel follow events in Charles Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of his novels.
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
the song is from the old movie "Meet me in St.Louis"
The Wright brothers exhibits their airplane at the St. Louis World Fair.
Up in the Air=> means undecided about someone or something; uncertain about someone or something.
the name of this film is refereed to the feeling of the hero.Sistine Chapel：
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[Bible]
The Bible (from Koine Greek, "the books") is a collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. It is a collection of scriptures written at different times by different authors in different locations. Jews and Christians consider the books of the Bible to be a product of divine inspiration or an authoritative record of the relationship between God and humans.
it has two part in Bible - Hebrew Bible and Christian Bibles
Hebrew Bible was written in Hebrew
Christian Bibles was written in Greek
Saint Joseph： a figure in the Gospels, the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, and is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism and Methodism
The Magi, also referred to as the (Three) Wise Men or (Three) Kings, were, in the Gospel of Matthew and Christian tradition, a group of distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The three gifts had a spiritual meaning: gold as a symbol of kingship on earth, frankincense (an incense) as a symbol of deity, and myrrh (an embalming oil) as a symbol of death.
3 is an important number in Bible
1. Jesus public ministry lasts three years
2. They believe in Trinity, meaning one God in three persons:
God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit
TrinityThe crucifixion of Jesus：Occurred during the 1st century AD, most probably between the years 30 and 33. Jesus, whom Christians believe to be the Son of God as well as the Messiah, was arrested, tried, and sentenced by Pontius Pilate to be scourged, and finally crucified by the Romans
Binding of Isaac：also known as, the Akedah or Aqedah, is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Mount Moriah.
Adam and Eve, according to the creation myths of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman.
original sin：God fashions Adam from dust and places him in the Garden of Eden. Adam is told that he can till the ground and eat freely of all the trees in the garden, except for a tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of which he is prohibited from eating. Subsequently, Eve is created from one of Adam's ribs to be Adam's companion. However, a serpent tricks Eve into eating fruit from the forbidden tree, and she gives some of the fruit to Adam. God curses the serpent and the ground. God prophetically tells the woman and the man what will be the consequences of their sin of disobeying God.
fig leaf：widely used figuratively to convey the covering up of an act or an object that is embarrassing or distasteful with something of innocuous appearance, a metaphorical reference to the Biblical Book of Genesis, in which Adam and Eve used fig leaves to cover their nudity after eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
secular = vulgar： not pertaining to or connected with religion<=> religion
gay： having or showing a merry, lively mood
gen-：birth and beginning
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