Christmas carols, or Christmas religious songs, began in the Middle Ages when people danced and sang religious songs on village greens in Anglo-Saxon England. A Christmas carol today is a religious tune without the dance associated with it.
A strong religious traditional today, as in other times, is to go to church at midnight of Christmas ever or on Christmas morning. A priest may say mass or peach a sermon about the significance of the birth of Christ.
Another very prominent symbol of Christmas is the Christmas tree. There are several explanations for its origin. One story suggests that Martin Luther was walking through a wood on a clear winter night admiring the beauty of the bright stars glowing though the branches of the trees. He decided to cut down a small evergreen tree and take it home. He put candles in it to represent the stars he had seen earlier because he wanted to share that beautiful image with his family.
Another story tells of the bringing of an evergreen tree inside the home during winter solstice symbolizing the renewal of life in the dead of winter. It became associated with Christmas, which occurs only four days later. The Christmas tree was firmly established as a Christmas symbol by the Germans who eventually brought in to America. In Victorian England, people hung cakes and candies on it and later, fruit made of paper adorned the branches. Modern commercial tree decorations appeared in the 1880 s at Woolworth s decorations appeared in the 1880 s at Woolworth s Departments Store in the united States, and electric Christmas tree lights made theirs debt in 1882.
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