这个派对“将会有常青树,在万物萧瑟时常青树象征着生命,还有一些常青树能在深冬中结果,比如冬青树或槲寄生”。(不过槲寄生的果实是白色的。)深冬之中的这抹鲜红色和绿色很自然地成为了圣诞节的代表颜色。
CANDIDATE 3: ROOD SCREENS
起源三:圣坛屏
In 2011, Cambridge University’s Spike Bucklow commented, “We ... recognize holly as being a quintessentially Christmas plant. That red and green is in our psyche because of the Victorians, but it was in their psyche because of the medieval paint that we can still see on 15th- and 16th-century rood screens.”
2011年,剑桥大学的斯派克·巴克罗评论道:“我们……意识到冬青树是典型的圣诞植物,而红配绿是因为维多利亚时代的人而深入人心的。他们对这种配色的情结源于至今仍然可以在15世纪和16世纪的圣坛屏上看到的中世纪涂色。”
quintessentially[kwɪntɪˈsenʃəli]: adv. 典型地;标准地
psyche[ˈsaɪki]: n. 灵魂;心智
Rood screens were an integral part of Western churches up until around the time of the Reformation. Their purpose was to separate the nave (where the congregation sits) from the chancel (around the altar, where the clergy would be) and were intricately designed with local saints, donors, or other figures.
到宗教改革时期为止,圣坛屏一直是西方教堂中必不可少的一部分。圣坛屏的用途是把教堂的中殿(教众坐的地方)和高坛(圣坛周围,神职人员站的地方)分开,屏上画着当地圣人、捐赠人或其他人物的精美画像。
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