圣诞节小故事(中英对照) ：

1圣诞老人为奥丁神后裔。 也传说称圣诞老人由圣·尼古拉而来，所以圣诞老人也称。据说他原是小亚细亚每拉城的主教，名叫圣尼古拉，死后被尊为圣徒，是一位身穿红袍、头戴红帽的白胡子老头。每年圣诞节他驾着鹿拉的雪橇从北方而来，由烟囱进入各家，把圣诞礼物装在袜子里挂在孩子们的床头上或火炉前。所以，西方人过圣诞节时，父母把给孩子的圣诞礼物装在袜子里，圣诞夜时挂在孩子们的床头上。第二天，孩子们醒来后的第一件事就是在床头上寻找圣诞老人送来的礼物

英语：chrismas father was the descendant of a deity called odin. it"s also said that chrismas father comes from san nichola, so he is also called . he was the bishop of asia minor city of rafah and he was called a man of god after his death. he is an old man in red clothes and he wears a red has white mustache. he comes from the north on a blowmobile every chrismas day. he went into people"s houses by the track and he put the presents into children"s socks. so in western countries,parents put the gifts to their kids in kids" socks and put them on the head of the bed on chrismas eve. on the second day, the first thing after kids wake up is to find the presents from chrismas fathers.

2传说有个心地善良的没落贵族，生活非常艰难。三个女儿快要出嫁了，他为没有钱给她们买嫁妆而难过。喜庆的圣诞夜，三个姑娘早早地蜷在炕上睡觉了，剩下父亲在长吁短叹。圣诞老人决定帮助他们。他在他们家的烟囱里撒下了许多金子，落进姑娘们烤在火炉旁的长统丝袜里。从此，他们过上了幸福而快乐的生活……圣诞节的袜子就这样产生

英语 it is said that there was a goodness man went broke his domain. he lived a hard life and he has three daughters. the three daughters were being married but he didn"t have money to buy dower for his daughters. on the happy chrismas eve three girls went to bed early. they didn"t know that their father was so worried. at last the chrismas father decided to help them . he besprinkled gold through the stack and the gold fell into the socks of the man"s daughters. they lived a happy life from then on... chrismas socks was origined by this.

3另一个传说记载。据说有一位农民在一个风雪交加的圣诞夜里接待了一个饥寒交迫的小孩，让他吃了一顿丰盛的圣诞晚餐，这个孩子告别时折了一根杉树枝插在地上并祝福说：“年年此日，礼物满枝，留此美丽的杉村，报答你的好意。”小孩走后，农民发现那树枝竟变成了一棵小树，他才明白自己接待的原来是一位上帝的使者。这个故事就成为圣诞树的来源。在西方，不论是否基督徒，过圣诞节时都要准备一棵圣诞树，以增加节日的欢乐气氛。圣诞树一般是用杉柏之类的常绿树做成，象征生命长存。树上装饰着各种灯烛、彩花、玩具、星星，挂上各种圣诞礼物。圣诞之夜，人们围着圣诞树唱歌跳舞，尽情欢乐

英语 it is said that there was a farmer served a poor boy on a cold windy chrismas eve and gave him a big chrisemas meal. the boy cut a fir tree"s branch and inserted it into the said, "every year this time. there will be many presents in this branch. i wish i can pay back to your favor by this beautiful fir tree. " after the boy left, the farmer discovered that the branch had grow up as a big tree. then he realized that the boy was an envoy of the god. this is the origin of the chrismas day. in western countries, whatever you are, everyone will prepare a chrismas tree to increase the happiness of the chrismas day. chrismas trees are made of evergreen tree like fir trees and they represent the long put candles,flowers,toys,stars on the tree and they put chrismas present on the tree. on chrismas eve,people sing and dance happily and they enjoy themselves around the tree.