{"id":1336755,"date":"2025-12-25T09:06:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/holiday-traditions-what-ukrainians-have-long-done-for-christmas\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:06:25","slug":"holiday-traditions-what-ukrainians-have-long-done-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/holiday-traditions-what-ukrainians-have-long-done-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday traditions: what Ukrainians have long done for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today, December 25, believers in Ukraine celebrate Christmas, a holiday accompanied by a number of traditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is reported by &#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/\">Pryamiy<\/a> &#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On this day, Ukrainians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ \u2014 they go to church and pray.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An important tradition at Christmas is caroling: a group of young men and women get together and sing carols. In their carols, they glorify Jesus Christ and the light that has conquered darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carol singing begins after the first star appears in the sky and continues until late at night. The whole process resembles a theatrical performance. The songs are accompanied by acting. In addition, there are important elements such as the Star of Bethlehem, bells and a bag of gifts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, adults expect carolers at their homes. It is believed that at Christmas one should be generous, so hosts do not spare gifts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the evening, families go from house to house, where they have dinner and celebrate the birth of the Savior. But they don&#8217;t stay long enough to have time to visit the entire family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Christmas celebration ends with a warm family atmosphere, sincere wishes for peace, health, and harmony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This holiday unites generations, reminds us of the importance of faith, love, and support for each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, December 25, believers in Ukraine celebrate Christmas, a holiday accompanied by a number of traditions. This is reported by &#8221; Pryamiy &#8220;. On this day, Ukrainians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ \u2014 they go to church and pray. An important tradition at Christmas is caroling: a group of young men and women get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":60777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76878],"class_list":["post-1336755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}