Beautiful Christmas festival 2016

Only four days left for great festival of the year Merry Christmas or 25th December. It is a great festival of Christians and celebrated by every people all across the world. It falls every year on 25th December, on this day people  do lots of preparations and decorations of church, house, shop etc before the event celebration start.

On this special day there is a big tradition of distributing gifts to their nearest and dearest ones, and specially children wait for this day when Santa comes and give the gift's. Every one enjoy this Christmas festival by singing, dancing, party and by giving Christmas cards etc. Women wears the white saree with different design's and children wears the white Gown or new clothes on this day and visit church to pray. Christians celebrates this festival on the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ. 

Christmas Bada Dina festival Celebrate 25

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed most commonly on December25  as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. 

A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is prepared for by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night; in some traditions, Christmastide includes an Octave. 

Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated culturally by a large number of non-Christian people, and is an integral part of the holiday season.

The celebratory customs associated in various countries with Christmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian, and secular themes and origins. 

Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift giving, completing an Advent calendar or Advent wreath, Christmas music and caroling, lighting a Christingle, an exchange of Christmas cards, church services, a special meal, and the display of various Christmas decorations, including Christmas trees, Christmas lights, nativity scenes, garlands, wreaths, mistletoe, and holly. 

In addition, several closely related and often interchangeable figures, known as Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, and Christkind, are associated with bringing gifts to children during the Christmas season and have their own body of traditions and lore.

Pandu Purnim and Bada Osha.

Christmas day and Bada Osha(Pandu Purnima).

Pandu osha is a odia festival dedicate to yudhistira.This is dedicate to pandumaharaj the father of pandave. The women worship is Yamraj on this day.The women worship the sons.

This festival falls on purnima the odia month of Margashirsha(December-25). According to a story, the king of kalinga had no children after he and the queen observed the Pandu osha. Basically the festival celebrate in the girl. Girls wakeup in early morning and clean the roads and by using a special jhaadu through out the Margasira month. 

This process ends on pandu purnima. end of Margasira mas, Girls are doing a puja called as "Pandu Osha" at evening wear the new dress. Girls are doing this osha for his brother.

 This ritual ends on pandu purnima or pandu osha.