Friday, December 23, 2011

Christmas Tree.

The Christmas tree, depicts Adam and Eve with a fir tree hung with apples representing the Garden of Eden. The Germans make a paradise tree in their homes on December 24, the religious feast day of Adam and Eve. Christmas trees were the height of fashion by the 19th century. They were also popular in Austria, Switzerland, Poland, and The Netherlands. In China and Japan, Christmas trees, introduced by western missionaries in the 19th and 20th centuries, were decorated with intricate paper designs.
It is an evergreen, fir tree, decorated with lights and ornaments as a part of Christmas festivities. The use of evergreen trees, wreaths, and garlands as a symbol of eternal life was an ancient custom of the Egyptians. Tree worship, by way of decorating the house and barn with evergreens at the New Year to scare away the devil and of setting up a tree for the birds during Christmastime; it survived further in the custom, also observed in Germany, of placing a Yule tree at an entrance or inside the house in the midwinter holidays.

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