You may know that Christmas has its origins in a Romanic tradition: Saturnalia, celebrated between the 17th and 24th of December, in this celebration in honor of Saturno the god of agriculture, the citizens used to have huge fests with food and presents .
According to this tradition the presents used to be laurel bouquets, because they mean good luck.
The origin of the exchange of gifts is also related to the ones given to Jesus, frankincense, myrrh, and gold.
The historical data suggest that in most of the countries for the X century the gift exchange tradition was already strongly practiced.