He wants to put it up the day after Thanksgiving, I want to put it up a couple of weeks before Christmas...during this discussion, I asked him what the heck does a tree with lights and decorations on it set up in the living room have to do with Christmas anyway? He had no answer...can someone tell me this?
2006-11-22 16:35:44 · 9 answers · asked by Corona 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
I would just like to know how Christmas trees came about going into homes and being decorated?
2006-11-22 16:48:28 · update #1
Corona: A great question. The Christmas tree and its decorations are symbols. For example, the green colour of the tree branches symbolize new life - like spring season brings summer, life in Jesus is a new life forever. Lights represent what they do, that is "light up" - illuminate. Jesus now shines with glory. Candy canes symbolize with their colours red = blood of Jesus shed for our sins when He was crucified; Green = life; the shape of the candy mint is in the form or shape of a Shepard's staff [crook], used to coral sheep with. Jesus refers to Himself as the "Shepherd" and Christians as His flock of sheep. Usually, the tree, itself, is topped with a "star" -the star symbolizes an Angel. The Angel spread the good news of Jesus Christ being born in Bethlehem 2000 years ago. These are only, some of the meanings of the decorations we adorn the evergreen Tree with.
Hope that this supplies you with some insight to the whys of the decorations we use today.
2006-11-22 17:02:54 · answer #1 · answered by guraqt2me 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a thing, but it is so pretty at Christmastime. I think it just makes you think more about all the people you love and when you put a present under it, it just becomes more special. I always put my tree up the day after Thanksgiving because it is the only holiday that I really love decorating for. I have lots of angels in my decoration, so it makes me appreciate it more. I do realize that Jesus is the reason for the season and not the tree.
But I do love the tree also.
2006-11-22 16:43:51 · answer #2 · answered by Dyan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://www.religioustolerance.org/xmas_tree.htm - History of the Christmas Tree.
If you're getting a live tree, I'd personally wait till closer to Christmas, because otherwise you risk it drying out and dropping needles everywhere.
If you have an artificial one, I say heck yeah, put it up the day after Thanksgiving if you want. =)
2006-11-22 16:45:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Christmas tree put up early brings a certain "atmosphere" to the house. SO his response has merit.
In my family my folks put the tree up the night of Christmas eve & had all the gifts underneath it. We were mesmerized!
My question to you: Does it really matter when the tree goes up? How about putting up the Nativity scene to remind you what the season is about?
Christmas means different things to different people. Listen to your husbands experience of what it was like growing up in his parental home regarding Christmas. Should be enlightening!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
:-)
2006-11-22 16:44:54 · answer #4 · answered by ThomasR 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Decorating with greens was borrowed from Pagans who where doing it way before christianity. Decorating and the actual day of December 25th were both "borrowed" although many would say "stolen"
2006-11-22 22:02:39 · answer #5 · answered by KathyS 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't positioned mine up till around the 10th-twelfth of December, yet my kinfolk buys a actual tree so we elect to attend as long as available so the tree can stay wide awake longer. My pal has a pretend tree, and she or he's adorning it this Sunday.
2016-12-29 08:53:35 · answer #6 · answered by schwager 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a monk in 7'th century used the triangular shape of the christmas tree to discribe the holy trinity of God the father son, and holy spiit.
2006-11-22 17:08:05 · answer #7 · answered by deedee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing at all. It was started in Germany in the 1800's I think. I know that the British royal family started doing it shortly after and it became fashionable and spread from there.
2006-11-22 16:48:12 · answer #8 · answered by Stewart H 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess it's just an American/Christian tradition.
2006-11-22 16:39:45 · answer #9 · answered by LALADUNYA786 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋