Chirstmas eve的来历英语的

Christmas Eve, December 24, is the day before Christmas Day, the celebrated birthday of Jesus.The story opens with a description of the winter scenery of Dikanka, Ukraine, a witch flying across the night sky and the devil stealing the moon and hiding it in his pocket, first playing with it in the sky, which no one in the village notices. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at the village blacksmith, Vakula, because he paints hideous portraits of him in the church.

In the village lives a Cossack named Choub, whose daughter Oksana, an extremely beautiful village girl who is loved by all the young boys. She is the object of the blacksmith Vakula’s affection. Choub goes out in the night with his friend Panas to the sexton’s home gathering, suddenly noticing that the moon is not in the sky. In the meantime Vakula is trying to win over Oksana, who mentions that his mot