As a momentous festival of the year, Christmas Day is celebrated around the world. For some people, this is a holiday not just for the living, but for the departed. During the festival, many families will decorate graves in memory of the dead. Especially for a few number people, decorating headstone showing they still care for their love ones. However,decorating headstone in Christmas holiday would be an interesting and difficult job. Because everyone hope his decoration to be unique,but they also do not want to violate social taboos. Thus, how to decorate headstone in Christmas day? Let’s have a see.

plant

Even in Christmas day, plant is still the most common adornment for gravestone. poinsettia and  Holly are good choices.

Poinsettia- The flower comes from Mexico. Legend has it that a warrior was washed away by water because he broke a rock that cut off the water source.Not a moment too soon, a grazier found a bunch of poinsettia by the water. Villagers thought the fiery bright flowers look like the missing warrior who prefers red clothes. Ever since, people commemorate him with Poinsettia.

US Ambassador Joel Roberts Poinsett took it to the United State. And people associate it with the gift to Jesus, it was also called “Flowers of the Holly Night”.

Holly-Holy closely link to Christianity. Its thorny leaves stands for the crown of thorns of Jesus. The fruits means the blood bleeding from Jesus when he wore the crowns.

Wreath- The loop of wreath represent eternity, no beginning and end. Evergreen is the main material for making wreath. The green leaves stands for eternal life.

Christmas Little Ornament

Some families will decorate graves with little Christmas ornaments because these are the departed’s favorite things during their life time.

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