Blogmas
Day 22
Hey, so obviously Christmas isn’t just about
the gifts and the company but there actually some story around it so today I
thought I would share with you my top 10 unusual Christmas facts:
-Christmas
supposedly marks the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25. But there is no mention
of December 25 in the Bible and it is thought he was most likely born in the
spring.
-Many of the well-known Christmas traditions
today found their roots in Saturnalia: Branches from evergreen trees were used
during winter solstice as a reminder of the green plants that would grow in
spring when the sun gods grew strong.
-December 25 was
the actual date of ancient pagan festival Saturnalia, which celebrated the
agricultural god Saturn with partying, gambling, and gift-giving.
-The Christmas
tree made its way to America in the 1830s but wasn’t popular until 1846, after
Germany’s Prince Albert brought it to England when he married Queen Victoria.
The British made it popular, go us!
-These evergreen
branches became the foundation of our Christmas tree. Germans are thought to be
the first to bring “Christmas trees” into their homes at the holidays and
decorate them with cookies and lights and then later came the baubles.
-Father Christmas
was originally green as shown in Dicken’s Christmas carol but was changed to
having red clothes by the company of coca cola but people still think he always
had red clothing, the look of the jolly old man giving out gifts was created in
1804 at a meeting.
-The song “White
Christmas which is definitely one of my favourite Christmas songs is the most
downloaded Christmas song.
-Stockings are
used because, a poor man with three daughters couldn’t afford the dowry to have
them married. One night, St. Nicholas dropped a bag of gold down the man’s
chimney so that his oldest daughter would be able to get married, and the bag
fell into a stocking that was drying by the fire, isn’t that just so adorable.
-Rudolph was
almost named Rollo or Reginald. Reginald the Red-Nosed Reindeer just doesn’t
sound like a reindeer. Rudolph the reindeer was also actually created to be a
toy by a department store.
-The most recorded
song for Christmas ever is Silent Night with over 733 different versions of the
Christmas carol copyrighted since 1978.
I hope you enjoyed this and come back tomorrow
for more. Let me know of anything you would like me to talk about in another
future post. That’s all for now,
Bella xxx
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