Christmas Eve, also known as Christmas Eve, has risen in recent years to send apples and eat apples. But this tradition does not come from the West, but Chinese its own inventions — the translation of Christmas Eve and the apple's "apple" harmonic. On Christmas Eve, giving the apple to others means peace and happiness, no matter where it is, no matter what kind of position you are in, you can give the apple to each other, hoping that the other party is safe and happy. At this time, the apple represents a blessing of its own, full of kindness. If you don't know what gift to give, you may wish to give an apple. It is very difficult to meet a person in the sea of people, since it means fate to meet, so apples can be given to friends who have just met, and they can express their cherishing and attention to each other's fate.
And the apple is flat, has a healthy spleen and appetizer, nourishes the heart, and has the effect of moisturizing the lungs, as the saying goes, "a (apple) fruit after a meal, the old man races the boy". Apples, also known as the king of fruits, are very rich in nutrients, and most people should prefer to eat them. Therefore, under the wave of globalization and commercialization, the more secular "foreign" festivals have their own laws in China.
In both China and the West, apples are an ordinary food that every household can afford. However, today's most famous "Apple" is "expensive" amazing, that is, Apple, which has a market value of 2.4 trillion US dollars to dominate the global stock market, has made consumers around the world crazy, to some extent, promoted the arrival of the mobile Internet era, and is a model of Internet technology.
It is said that the design of such a "hardcore" company brand is inspired by the story of Newton's thinking under the apple tree and discovering the law of universal gravitation, implying the hope of realizing corporate value through scientific and technological innovation. In fact, the allusions of Newton and Apple are purely a fabrication of the danzi hand, and the name of the danzi hand is the famous Voltaire. It is said that François-Marie Arue (Voltaire was his pen name) heard about this allusion from Newton's niece. But later generations found that Newton never saw a description of the apple and gravity in his writings, and if it was really the magical apple that "ignited" the brain of this great man, wouldn't it be strange? Unveiling the romantic imagination between the Apple and gravity was the famous German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, who said: "It's like a fool who wants to know the law of universal gravitation, and Newton made up a story to avoid countless why-style fools to ask." "Science is serious.
After Apple, many companies named after fruits have also emerged, lychees, watermelons, mangoes, oranges, grapefruit... None of Apple's influence is great, and it lacks Apple's innovative spirit. Apple, today, has also become a classic symbol of scientific and technological innovation.
Innovation is the process of breaking the existing situation to discover and produce new things and new spaces. In the view of the economist Schumpeter, the essence of economic development lies in innovation, and entrepreneurs, under the joy of innovation and the incentive of huge production profits, break the arrival of economic prosperity through the recombination of production factors and production conditions.
Correspondingly, whether it is the festival innovation of eating apples in the Chinese Festival, the theoretical innovation of Newton's discovery of gravity, the innovation of Voltaire's story, or the product innovation of Apple, it is a manifestation of innovation and enriches people's spirit and life.
This process of subjective initiative under curiosity may be the natural nature of human beings, allowing human beings to step by step to today. We really don't know how happy Adam and Eve would be if they didn't eat the forbidden fruit, the apple, but we do know that the Garden of Eden without electronics and the Internet is probably unhappy and happy, that is, this spirit of exploration of new things has allowed human beings to leave the Garden of Eden early and advance towards the deepening path of science and technology.
If Christmas originated from religious traditions, then in the development of commercialization and secularization, this festival has more consumerism and hedonistic characteristics, and when daily life is more and more dependent on information technology, cloud computing and other online media, Apple is no longer just a visible and tangible object, more of a symbol sent by WeChat friends, a discount shopping experience on a certain electric commodity platform, gifts exchanged for coupons and points, and even a farming activity.
In short, apple is not only apple itself, but now it has been given a lot of spiritual connotations, and Christmas has begun to "Christmas +", just like December 25th, which was originally used to commemorate the sun god Apollo, and later evolved into the birthday of Jesus.