2006-11-18 11:18:14 · 7 answers · asked by jeannie p 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
The hooked shape is for the shepherd's staffs who saw the angels singing to the Lord when Jesus was born. Upside down it becomes a J for Jesus.
The white part is for Jesus's purity and how He never sinned, and the red stripes are for the blood He shed on the cross.
2006-11-18 11:20:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anna Lynn 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The candy cane represents Jesus. The red on the candy cane represents Christ shedding His blood for us. The white on the candy cane symbolizes Christ as being pure. When you turn the candy cane upside down it looks like a J the J stands for Jesus.
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2006-11-18 19:23:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birth of the Candy Cane
Around the seventeenth century, European-Christians began to adopt the use of Christmas trees as part of their Christmas celebrations. They made special decorations for their trees from foods like cookies and sugar-stick candy. The first historical reference to the familiar cane shape goes back to 1670, when the choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, bent the sugar-sticks into canes to represent a shepherd's staff. The all-white candy canes were given out to children during the long-winded nativity services.
2006-11-18 19:25:18 · answer #3 · answered by New 4 Lulu 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The significance of the candy cane as I was told some years ago in church started years ago. A man wanted to represent the life and ministry of Jesus. The shape of the candy itself represents a shepherd's cane. The red ribbon represents the shed blood of Jesus.
2006-11-18 22:15:28 · answer #4 · answered by fullnessofjoy1959 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The shape of a candy cane stands for a sheperds staff to represent that came to stable to see jesus. The red stands for blood jesus shed dying on the cross. The means to have a heart as white as snow.
2006-11-18 19:28:42 · answer #5 · answered by juanthall 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make ur eyes hurt from the pattern & taste so candy-caneish lol
2006-11-18 19:27:03 · answer #6 · answered by KatastropheGirl™ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The frailty of life, the inevitability of death, and the sweetness of reincarnation.
2006-11-18 19:19:49 · answer #7 · answered by St. Toad 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋