Yes, they do. On the Christmas Eve after eating a meal (made of 12 different dishes!) they are going to open the gifts that were put under the Christmas Tree. It's on the 24th of December, in the evening. Actually the whole celebration should start when the first star appears on the sky.
There are number of traditions held for a polish Christmas. The most popular include: gift giving, Christmas tree, Wigilia - The Vigil and the star supper.
people usually start decorating about the week before Christmas
Wigilia.
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coal of course everybody does
Two important traditions are throwing rice at the newly wedded couple when they are leaving the church and eating bread with salt at the beginning of the party. Hope I helped.
Polish people celebrate Christmas and Easter. They also celebrate Constitution day, All Saint's day, and they celebrate their Independence Day in November.
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Besides having traditions for Christmas and Easter, the Polish celebrate other traditions like the Drowning of Marzanna and Juwenalia. The Drowning of Marzanna occurs the Sunday before Easter and is a pagan festival. Juwenalia is a student festival that takes place in May or June. During Easter, decorated eggs are also a tradition.
The traditional polish christmas puppet show is a szopka.
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