英美文化史：圣诞节的故事_英美文化

英美文化史：圣诞节的故事

到12月中旬的时候，大部分家庭也会用圣诞树、彩灯、彩纸或塑料饰物来装点所有的房间。许多人还会用彩灯来装饰庭院里的树木或房屋的墙壁，这已经成为了美国的一种习俗。

In many countries, most people post Christmas greeting cards to their friends and family, and these cards will be hung on the walls of their homes.

在许多国家，大多数人都会给朋友和家人邮寄圣诞贺卡;这些贺卡会被挂在家中的墙上。

Christmas cards

圣诞贺卡

The custom of sending Christmas cards started in Britain in 1840 when the first "Penny Post" public postal deliveries began.(Helped by the new railway system, the public postal service was the 19th century's communication revolution,just as email is for us today.) As printing methods improved, Christmas cards were produced in large numbers from about 1860. They became even more popular in Britain when a card could be posted in an unsealed envelope for one half-penny-half the price of an ordinary letter.

邮寄圣诞贺卡的习俗始于1840年的英国，当时，最早的被称为“便士邮寄”的公共邮政业已经开始起步。(在新兴的铁路运输系统的辅助下，公共邮政服务成为了19世纪的一次通讯革命，正如电子邮件对我们现代人的意义一样。)随着印刷方式的不断改良，从18sa年左右起，圣诞贺卡便开始大批量地生产了。在英国，圣诞贺卡尤其受欢迎，因为用不封口的信封邮寄一张贺卡只需半便士—比邮寄普通信件便宜一半。

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