Hello my dear reader, finally I am back with my new post and of course I could not avoid continued holidays and dedicate one of my post to this "fairy tale".
Here I will write about Christmas Tree tradition, and how it's started and from where.
Many of people do not understand the real meaning of Christmas Tree (some even in my country), and they think that it is related to New Year than Christmas.So let's go back to the centuries and try to find out the origin of Christmas Tree and such a beautiful tradition.
Christmas Tree is a decorated tree, usually conifer or an artificial tree of similar appearance.
According to some sources use of evergreen trees to symbolize eternal life was a custom of the ancient Egyptians, Chinese and Hebrews.The tree worship was common among pagan Europeans, to and survived their conversion to Christianity in Scandinavian customs of decorating houses with evergreens to scare away the devil during Christmas time.
Christmas Tree is frequently traced to the symbolism of trees in pre-Christian winter rites, where the Viking and Saxon worshiped trees.
Modern Christmas trees originated during Renaissance in early modern Germany.The origin is sometime associated with Protestant Christian reformer Martin Luther, who is said to have added first lighted candle to an evergreen tree, in 16th century.
The first recorded Christmas Tree can be found on the sculpture in private home Turckheim, Alsace (France ) dating 1576.
In the early 19th century the custom became popular and spread to royal courts as far as Russia.
In 1816 The Christmas Tree was introduced in Vienna and the custom spread across Austria. In France first Christmas Tree was 1840 and in Denmark in 1808. As we remember there was a fairy-tail called "The Fir Tree", written by Danish writer Hans Christian Anderson in 1844, which was recounting the fate of a fir-tree being used as a Christmas tree.
In United States Christmas Tree became very common in early 19th century.
In Russia, the Christmas Tree was banned after the October Revolution, but then reinstated as a New Year Spruce in 1935. It became a fully secular icon of the New Year holiday, for example the crowning star was regarded not as a symbol of Bethlehem star but as a Red star, Decorations such as figurines of airplanes, bicycles, space rockets, cosmonauts and characters of Russian fairy tails were produced. This tradition persists after the fall of USSR, with the New Year holiday outweighing the Christmas with wide majority of Russian people.
In Armenia the Christmas tree is called "tonacar", which mean the tree of celebration, and decorated with Christmas ornaments (those are usually made of wood, class, ceramics and metal).
The first decorated trees were adorned with apples, candy canes and pastries with the shape of heart, flowers, stars.Glass baubles were first made in Lauscha, Germany.and also garlands and tin figures, which can be hung on trees.
Nowadays Christmas ornaments are kind of artworks, which are made with large variety of materials. Every year this production sphere develops more and more, to make our life real fairy tail.
Wish you all Merry Christmas
Here I will write about Christmas Tree tradition, and how it's started and from where.
Many of people do not understand the real meaning of Christmas Tree (some even in my country), and they think that it is related to New Year than Christmas.So let's go back to the centuries and try to find out the origin of Christmas Tree and such a beautiful tradition.
Christmas Tree is a decorated tree, usually conifer or an artificial tree of similar appearance.
According to some sources use of evergreen trees to symbolize eternal life was a custom of the ancient Egyptians, Chinese and Hebrews.The tree worship was common among pagan Europeans, to and survived their conversion to Christianity in Scandinavian customs of decorating houses with evergreens to scare away the devil during Christmas time.
Christmas Tree is frequently traced to the symbolism of trees in pre-Christian winter rites, where the Viking and Saxon worshiped trees.
Modern Christmas trees originated during Renaissance in early modern Germany.The origin is sometime associated with Protestant Christian reformer Martin Luther, who is said to have added first lighted candle to an evergreen tree, in 16th century.
The first recorded Christmas Tree can be found on the sculpture in private home Turckheim, Alsace (France ) dating 1576.
In the early 19th century the custom became popular and spread to royal courts as far as Russia.
In 1816 The Christmas Tree was introduced in Vienna and the custom spread across Austria. In France first Christmas Tree was 1840 and in Denmark in 1808. As we remember there was a fairy-tail called "The Fir Tree", written by Danish writer Hans Christian Anderson in 1844, which was recounting the fate of a fir-tree being used as a Christmas tree.
In United States Christmas Tree became very common in early 19th century.
In Russia, the Christmas Tree was banned after the October Revolution, but then reinstated as a New Year Spruce in 1935. It became a fully secular icon of the New Year holiday, for example the crowning star was regarded not as a symbol of Bethlehem star but as a Red star, Decorations such as figurines of airplanes, bicycles, space rockets, cosmonauts and characters of Russian fairy tails were produced. This tradition persists after the fall of USSR, with the New Year holiday outweighing the Christmas with wide majority of Russian people.
In Armenia the Christmas tree is called "tonacar", which mean the tree of celebration, and decorated with Christmas ornaments (those are usually made of wood, class, ceramics and metal).
The first decorated trees were adorned with apples, candy canes and pastries with the shape of heart, flowers, stars.Glass baubles were first made in Lauscha, Germany.and also garlands and tin figures, which can be hung on trees.
Nowadays Christmas ornaments are kind of artworks, which are made with large variety of materials. Every year this production sphere develops more and more, to make our life real fairy tail.
Wish you all Merry Christmas
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