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How Did Christmas Trees Become A Part Of The Christmas Tradition?

Christmas is easily the biggest holiday of the year or any year. It’s a festival to have a great time with your loved ones and do a lot of fun stuff. There are also a lot of traditions associated with this festival, one of them being the Christmas tree and its decorations.

We cannot even imagine celebrating or even thinking about this holiday without decorating trees. So what’s the story behind it? Let’s find out how decorating trees became a part of the holiday tradition. Keep on reading to know about it in detail.

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The Origin Of Christmas Tree Tradition

Tree decoration
Tree decoration

Christmas has several traditions attached to it. One of them, the most famous, is the tradition to decorate Christmas trees. Records of using trees pre-date even the term Christmas Tree.

According to Time magazine, Rural English church records from the 15th and 16th centuries show the use of holly and ivy to decorate the house in the winter.

In the book Christmas: A Biography, an account mentions a storm in London that destroyed a poll described as “for disport of Christmas to the people.” There are several myths surrounding the origin of this tradition that touch upon people like Martin Luther to  St. Boniface.

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The Tradition Started Around The Middle Age

Xmas tree
Xmas tree

In 1419 Freiburg, trees were decorated with apples, flour-paste wafers, tinsel, and gingerbread. To celebrate the feast day of Adam and Eve, a tree of knowledge was represented by a fir with apples tied to its branches and leaves.

There are even documentation and other evidence of trees decorated with wool thread, straw, apples, nuts, and pretzels. By the 15th century, the demand for these trees skyrocketed.

Evidence and references of festive trees in America date back to the late 18th century and early 19th century. In 1805, a school sent their students “to fetch a small green tree for Christmas.” It picked up and evolved from that point to this date where a celebration is incomplete without tree decoration.

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