Japanese shime-nawa, which means a rope for hanging to sacrifice animals, is decorated in upside of the door in each household in January. This is a custom.
Christmas wreath is similar in shape and decorated in a room on Christmas.
Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ, not commemorate the death of Christ. Yet wreath is put on the grave to commemorate the death of someone in general, too.
In the case of Christ, death & life are altogether. The death in heaven resulted in a birth on earth, and the death at cross is the departure to the life again in heaven.
By decorating wreath we celebrate the human sacrife made by him without noticing it since his life is eternal as the sun also rises.
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