This pretty Christmas card arrived from Poland. ''Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia'' means ''Merry Christmas and Happy New Year''.
In Poland, Wiligia or Christmas Eve is a day of fasting, and later a huge feast comprising of all traditional dishes and desserts. Presents are exchanged towards the end. Christmas Day is often spent visiting friends. In Polish tradition, people combine religion and family closeness at Christmas. Although gift-giving plays a major role in the rituals, emphasis is placed more on the making of special foods and decoration. A traditional Christmas meal in Poland includes fried carp and borscht, with uszka and peirogi. Borscht is a delicious fried beetroot soup. Uska are small dumplings, usually filled with mushrooms or minced meat. For dessert, makoweic, or noodles with poppy seed is often served. Christmas Eve ends with Pasterka, or midnight mass at local church.
Święty Mikołaj(Polish for Saint Nicholas) visits Polish households twice in December. The first time occurs on the morning of 6 December, when family members find their boots filled with candy. The second one happens on the evening of 24 December; gifts are placed under the Christmas tree, usually in the absence of children (many of whom are occupied with watching the sky in search of the first star -Gwiazdka).
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