What’s the big deal about January 6th?
These are the twelve days beginning on night of the 25th of December and ending on January 5th, the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany. In the Middle Ages this period was one of continuous feasting and merrymaking, which climaxed on Twelfth Night, the traditional end of the Christmas season.
Each year economists will compute the cost for all the gifts mentioned in the son. This year, the true cost of all 364 total gifts in the song is $72,608.02.
Some Christians assign symbolism to the gifts in the song.
-Twelve Days of Christmas Wikipedia article
The early western Church decided to celebrate Christmas on December 25. The East continued to treat January 6 as the day marking Jesus’ birth. The west generally acknowledges a twelve-day festival, starting on December 25, and ending on January 6, known as Christmastide or the twelve days of Christmas.
More recently, most in the mark Epiphany on the Sunday after the first Saturday in January (before this the Sunday between January 1 and January 6 in years when there was one, was designated the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus), and most Roman Catholics and Anglicans (along with many Protestants) now formally end the Christmas season on the Baptism of the Lord is observed on the latter day.
I have heard that early Christians started celebrating Christmas to emphasize the humanity of Christ to combat Christian dualism.
