We post this every year and we want to share it with you yet again.
Do you know which country celebrates Christmas the longest?
If you guess the Philippines, you are correct.
Christmas is celebrated early in the Philippines, we’re talking early November.
You can hear Christmas carols being played, the streets starting to be decorated with Christmas decorations.
These decorations include the traditional parol, a five point star-shaped Christmas lantern (something like a Pentagram) which has been a time-honoured Christmas symbol in the Philippines.
You see parols hanging in every street and road of towns and cities, outside almost every Filipino homes, in schools and office buildings, shopping malls, and even churches during the entire Christmas season which usually starts as early as November.
There is no other Christmas symbol in the Philippines that shows more warmth than these Christmas lanterns called parol.
These Christmas lanterns are very unique to the Philippines.
Parol-making is a traditional folk craft of Filipinos.
It is even taught to school children.
Schools hold lantern parades every year to showcase the artwork of these students.
