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9. 小圣诞(Little Christmas)是怎么回事？
Little Christmas is one of the traditional names in Ireland forJanuary 6, more commonly known in the rest of the world as theCelebration of the Epiphany.It is so called because it was the day on which Christmas Day wascelebrated under the Roman calendar, before the adoption of theGregorian calendar. It is the traditional end of the Christmas seasonand the last day of the Christmas holidays for both primary andsecondary schools in Ireland。
爱尔兰人把每年的1月6日称为“小圣诞”——其他国家把这一天称为“主显日”。在乔治亚历通用以前，这一天是以罗马历计算的圣诞节。在爱尔兰，小圣诞被视为是圣诞季的最后一天，过了这一天，小学和中学就开学啦。(很像咱们的“过大年”啊！)
