Christmas, the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ, is celebrated in Koderma, the mica city with great fervour. On the Christmas day, people enjoyed a sumptuous Christmas lunch. Christmas cakes and other sweets were served to visitors and gifts were exchanged among friends and relatives.
People decorated their houses, erected Christmas trees, made cribs with figures of baby Jesus, Mother Mary, Joseph, the three kings who come to visit the baby and shepherd boys and their herds grazing around depicting the scenes of Jesus's Birth in the Bible. They decorated the Christmas tree, hanged stars, gifts and illuminated them. Carol singing, get-togethers and the exchanging of gifts enhance the Christmas spirit. Christmas parties launched off celebrations for the New year, thus retaining the festive mood for at least a week.
Christians of the district celebrated the birth or Nativity of Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity on Thursday. This is the most important and the gayest festival of the Christians. Students of different schools also looked upon it as a festival of goodwill and greetings and celebrated with high enthusiasm with distribution of toffees and sweets. Students of different schools including Grizzly Vidyalaya telaiya Dam, Sacred Heart School cut cake decorated cribs ,Christmas trees and enjoyed with Shanta Claus moving through the school campus with his glittering colourful robs, glowing long white beard and shaking hand with children in the school form the main attraction of the festival.
Families get together around sparkling Christmas trees from whose branches hang numerous lovely gifts. When the youngsters received the gifts and open them, they danced with joy. The day was spent in meeting friends and relatives. Delicious dishes, Christmas cakes were eaten and served to visitors. The night is enlivened with dances, carols and mid-night masses in the churches.