为什么圣诞节的代表颜色是红配绿？_BEC初级作文

为什么圣诞节的代表颜色是红配绿？

这很可能是各种假说中最晦涩的一种，这种说法认为，圣诞节和红配绿的关联可能起源于圣诞前夜上演的传统戏剧《天堂》，该剧讲述的是人类的堕落以及亚当夏娃被逐出伊甸园的故事。这出戏离不开树，而冬天里只有常青树还好看点。树上还需要悬挂水果——红苹果或者红石榴。

It’s widely thought that as the Paradise Play died out, the tree remained—and turned into the modern Christmas tree. The red of the fruit and the green of the tree linked the two colors in popular imagination with the Christmas season.

人们普遍认为，在戏剧《天堂》淡出舞台后，戏中的树却保留了下来，并演变成现代的圣诞树。水果的红色和树的绿色成为大众心目中圣诞季的代表颜色。

CANDIDATE 2: HOLLY

起源二：冬青树

Religious Studies professor Bruce David Forbes theorizes that medieval Europeans were looking for something to do during the bleakness of winter. So, why not party?

宗教学教授布鲁斯·戴维·福布斯的理论是，中世纪的欧洲人寻找可以在凄冷的冬天做的事。于是他们想，何不开个派对呢？

And that party “would feature evergreens, as signs of life when everything else seems to have died, plus other plants that not only stay green but even bear fruit in the middle of winter, like holly or mistletoe.” (Although mistletoe berries are actually white.) These bright reds and greens in the middle of winter may have made them natural candidates for the colors of Christmas.