Bernd
11/22/2022 (Tue) 10:33
No.49253
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11/22/2022 (Tue) 10:33
No.49253
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Gift giving is hardy rare. Just look at our own celebrations, we give gifts for birthdays, fathers day, mothers day, valentines day and Easter and then we give gifts to celebrate things that are not even days, like giving the US a statue of a woman to celebrate their independence. Gift giving is a celebratory act.
>It doesn't seem to explain the appearance of decorating the house with trees specifically being brought indoors, hanging stockings by the fire, the use of flying with reindeer.
People like to decorate things particularly in festive seasons, adding whatever greenery remains to your house would be a good way to liven it up as well. Christmas trees again seem to date to around the same time Father Christmas does.
>Modern Christmas trees originated during the Renaissance in early modern Germany. Its 16th-century origins are sometimes associated with Protestant Christian reformer Martin Luther, who is said to have first added lighted candles to an evergreen tree.[18][19][20]
>The earliest known firmly dated representation of a Christmas tree is on the keystone sculpture of a private home in Turckheim, Alsace (then part of Germany, today France), with the date 1576.[21]
>Modern Christmas trees have been related to the "tree of paradise" of medieval mystery plays that were given on 24 December, the commemoration and name day of Adam and Eve in various countries. In such plays, a tree decorated with apples (to represent the forbidden fruit) and wafers (to represent the Eucharist and redemption) was used as a setting for the play. Like the Christmas crib, the Paradise tree was later placed in homes. The apples were replaced by round objects such as shiny red balls.[12][13][22][23][24][25]
>At the end of the Middle Ages, an early predecessor appears referred in the 15th century Regiment of the Cistercian Alcobaça Monastery in Portugal. The Regiment of the local high-Sacristans of the Cistercian Order refers to what may be considered the oldest references to the Christmas tree: "Note on how to put the Christmas branch, scilicet: On the Christmas eve, you will look for a large Branch of green laurel, and you shall reap many red oranges, and place them on the branches that come of the laurel, specifically as you have seen, and in every orange you shall put a candle, and hang the Branch by a rope in the pole, which shall be by the candle of the high altar."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree
Gift giving is hardy rare. Just look at our own celebrations, we give gifts for birthdays, fathers day, mothers day, valentines day and Easter and then we give gifts to celebrate things that are not even days, like giving the US a statue of a woman to celebrate their independence. Gift giving is a celebratory act.
>It doesn't seem to explain the appearance of decorating the house with trees specifically being brought indoors, hanging stockings by the fire, the use of flying with reindeer.
People like to decorate things particularly in festive seasons, adding whatever greenery remains to your house would be a good way to liven it up as well. Christmas trees again seem to date to around the same time Father Christmas does.
>Modern Christmas trees originated during the Renaissance in early modern Germany. Its 16th-century origins are sometimes associated with Protestant Christian reformer Martin Luther, who is said to have first added lighted candles to an evergreen tree.[18][19][20]
>The earliest known firmly dated representation of a Christmas tree is on the keystone sculpture of a private home in Turckheim, Alsace (then part of Germany, today France), with the date 1576.[21]
>Modern Christmas trees have been related to the "tree of paradise" of medieval mystery plays that were given on 24 December, the commemoration and name day of Adam and Eve in various countries. In such plays, a tree decorated with apples (to represent the forbidden fruit) and wafers (to represent the Eucharist and redemption) was used as a setting for the play. Like the Christmas crib, the Paradise tree was later placed in homes. The apples were replaced by round objects such as shiny red balls.[12][13][22][23][24][25]
>At the end of the Middle Ages, an early predecessor appears referred in the 15th century Regiment of the Cistercian Alcobaça Monastery in Portugal. The Regiment of the local high-Sacristans of the Cistercian Order refers to what may be considered the oldest references to the Christmas tree: "Note on how to put the Christmas branch, scilicet: On the Christmas eve, you will look for a large Branch of green laurel, and you shall reap many red oranges, and place them on the branches that come of the laurel, specifically as you have seen, and in every orange you shall put a candle, and hang the Branch by a rope in the pole, which shall be by the candle of the high altar."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree
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