Tonight is Christmas Eve, and the streets are filled with a festive atmosphere. I don't know how you plan to live this Christmas, how do you plan to live? Anyway, Hui Ying Xiaobian has served a dumpling bowl today to prevent Jesus from being born and no one cares...
Some students plan to buy and buy, or have a Christmas dinner. Some students may have a full set of holidays, or even move a tree home.
But I don't know if this very common holiday scene has ever caused you to think: how did the custom of placing Christmas trees in the house come about?
Paganism + Christianity = ...
Evergreen trees do not fall leaves in winter, and naturally become a symbol of life. The ancient Romans decorated their houses with evergreen branches in the New Year, while the inhabitants of northern Europe in ancient times cut down evergreen trees in the winter and planted them in boxes inside their houses.
Miraculously, many of the early Christians were hostile to this practice, but over time they themselves gradually inherited the practice. By the Renaissance, there were clear records of trees being used as a Christmas symbol.
The theory of the origin of the Christmas tree is most credible in the medieval theory of the origin of the drama.
Plays depicting biblical themes began as part of church worship, but by the late Middle Ages they had lost their serious religious character and had become joyful performances dominated by non-clergy.
The drama of celebrating the birth of Jesus is often associated with the story of creation, so Christmas Eve is also considered a holiday for Adam and Eve. Correspondingly, pine trees with fruits and round cakes became the symbol of the "heavenly tree" in the Garden of Eden on the theatrical stage.
In the sixteenth century, these plays were banned in many places, and people moved the "heavenly tree" to their homes. Over the centuries, the fruits on the trees and the round cakes that symbolize the Holy Communion have gradually become colored balls and biscuits.
Every Christmas, nine million trees are cut down around the world
According to the agronomag website, 3.3 million to 3.6 million trees are cut down in the United States every year for Christmas, and 5 million to 6 million trees are cut down in Europe.
Hui Ying Xiaobian pinched his fingers and couldn't help but sing there are nine million treescut for Christmas...
Although these trees were specially planted for Christmas, this still has a bad impact on the environment.
The cut-down pine tree smiled and lit the wax, no matter how you look at it, it feels that something is wrong...
In fact, in the environment where all walks of life are calling for environmental protection, many organizations have noticed this!
Different parts of the UK have their own Christmas tree recycling schemes, such as crushing Christmas trees into wood chips for children's playgrounds or transporting them whole to the sea to reinforce sea walls.
At the same time, people are encouraged to rent Christmas trees or buy Them with roots so that they can be planted in the garden after Christmas.
Of course, in addition to recycling, the best solution is to use less real trees. Cutting a mini Christmas tree out of paper is also a good choice