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There are many Christmas decorations, such as Christmas lights accessories. Today we will talk about the origin of Christmas decorations and the story of Christmas snacks!
Christmas decoration
The ancient Romans used European holly to decorate during the celebration of Saturn's Day (December 17). They believed that the holly symbolized the sun must come back again. In the ancient Nordic mythology, mistletoe symbolized "love, peace, and forgiveness." Mistletoe is often hung on the door to pray for good luck. Later, Christians used these two plants that they considered sacred to make Christmas decorations.
Around the sixteenth century, the Germans took the evergreen pine and cypress branches into the house to display and called it a Christmas tree. In the 19th century, after Prince Albert of Germany and Queen Victoria of England got married, they brought the German tradition of decorating evergreen trees into Britain. The Victorian Christmas tree was decorated with sparkling ornaments, candles and Homemade trinkets, candies, etc. are tied to the branches with ribbons. In 1848, photos of the British royal family posing next to a 40-foot-high Christmas tree were published in magazines. Since then, decorating Christmas trees and celebrating Christmas has become popular in ordinary people's homes.
Christmas food
At the beginning of the 18th century, George I of England asked for raisin pudding in his first Christmas royal feast. From then on, Christmas pudding became popular.
Gingerbread was used in ancient European winter solstice ceremonies because at that time spices such as ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and black pepper were very expensive imported spices and were only used during important festivals. Later, Christmas replaced the winter solstice. Gingerbread has become a snack associated with Christmas.
The custom of eating turkey at Christmas began in the United States in 1620. Europeans like to eat roast geese very much. After immigrating to the Americas, they found that American specialty turkey was better than geese, so roast turkey became a major dish for Americans and a grateful meal that symbolized harvest and reunion. As Thanksgiving and Christmas are approaching, the turkey feast that symbolizes gratitude extends to Christmas.
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