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At the beginning of the year the custom was well-enough known for The Times to compare the January budget of 1848 with gifts handed out beneath "the Christmas tree": The Times (London, England), 21 January 1848, p.4. In Scandinavia, the Norse celebrated Yule from December 21, the winter solstice, through January. In recognition of the return of the sun, fathers and sons would bring home large logs, which they would set on fire. The people would feast until the log burned out, which could take as many as 12 days. The Norse believed that each spark from the fire represented a new pig or calf that would be born during the coming year.

The Christmas tree is sometimes compared with the " Yule-tree", especially in discussions of its folkloric origins. [12] [13] [14] History [ edit ] Origin of the modern Christmas tree [ edit ] Martin Luther is depicted with his family and friends in front of a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve

How Christmas trees got popular in U.S.

Harper, Timothy (1999). Moscow Madness: Crime, Corruption, and One Man's Pursuit of Profit in the New Russia. McGraw-Hill. p. 72. ISBN 9780070267008. During the decades of official state atheism in the Soviet era, Christmas had been a nonholiday.

The publication of the drawing helped Christmas Trees become popular in the UK and USA. The custom of Christmas Trees had been taken to the USA by settlers from Germany and other European countries. However, they were seen as a rather strange decoration until the publication of the drawing of the British Royal family's Christmas Tree! Yes, putting up your Christmas tree does make you happier, at least according to a (we admit unscientific) survey of the Homes & Gardens team. ‘The moment people chose to put up their Christmas tree did vary,’ says global editor in chief Lucy Searle. ‘But the whole team was as one on the issue of whether it made them happier. Poor families in Lewisham and similar districts are just as particular about the shape of their trees as people in Belgravia ...' 'Shapely Christmas Trees': The Times (London, England), 17 December 1926, p.11.Sandborn, Dixie (2 December 2016). "Real Christmas trees: History, facts and environmental impacts". canr.msu.edu/ . Retrieved 1 October 2021. Wells, Dorothy (1897). "Christmas in Other Lands". The School Journal. 55: 697–8. Christmas is the occasional of family reunions. Grandmother always has the place of honor. As the time approaches for enjoying the tree, she gathers her grandchildren about her, to tell them the story of the Christ child, with the meaning of the Christ child, with the meaning of the Christmas tree; how the evergreen is meant to represent the life everlasting, the candle lights to recall the light of the world, and the star at the top of the tree is to remind them of the star of Bethlehem.

The lyrics sung in the United States to the German tune O Tannenbaum begin "O Christmas tree...", giving rise to the mistaken idea that the German word Tannenbaum (fir tree) means "Christmas tree", the German word for which is instead Weihnachtsbaum.A homeless boy and a scraggly fir tree rescue each other in this somber tale about the potential in all living things, including those that society casts aside…Huddy’s story faces unpleasant realities and injustices head on, and Sutton’s ( Tiny Creatures) finely detailed watercolors do the same. Poinsettia plants are named after Joel R. Poinsett, an American minister to Mexico, who brought the red-and-green plant from Mexico to America in 1828. Recycling Your Tree: Real Christmas Trees are Recyclable". National Christmas Tree Association. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013 . Retrieved 18 December 2012. Some early Christmas Trees, across many parts of northern Europe, were cherry or hawthorn plants (or a branch of the plant) that were put into pots and brought inside so they would hopefully flower at Christmas time. If you couldn't afford a real plant, people made pyramids of woods and they were decorated to look like a tree with paper, apples and candles. It's possible that the wooden pyramid trees were meant to be like Paradise Trees. Sometimes they were carried around from house to house, rather than being displayed in a home.

a b Mandryk, DeeAnn (25 October 2005). Canadian Christmas Traditions. James Lorimer & Company. p. 67. ISBN 9781554390984. The eight-pointed star became a popular manufactured Christmas ornament around the 1840s and many people place a star on the top of their Christmas tree to represent the Star of Bethlehem.

Belk, Russell (2000). "Materialism and the Modern U.S. Christmas". Advertising & Society Review. 1. doi: 10.1353/asr.2000.0001. S2CID 191578074. Archived from the original on 6 May 2014 . Retrieved 5 October 2014.