The Germans and the tree - up to Christmas and NY Bashny.Net

Photo report on how nemchura stored trees for the holidays in a nursery near Berlin or Christmas tree market in Berlin. By the way, you know how in Germany there was a tradition to install Christmas tree, and then gradually reached and our homes with you?

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1. Buyers are their newly felled trees from the nursery in Mellensee, a suburb of Berlin on 12 December.





2. Mother and child choose a Christmas tree in a nursery in Mellensee. The main symbols of Christmas in Germany - and the Christmas tree festival



3. Jens with his daughter Floris on the kennel sawing their favorite Christmas tree.



4. Heymd and his 8-year-old son Luca are freshly felled spruce out of the kennel.



5. Santa Claus with children walks among the trees in the nursery Mellensee. The history of the transformation of spruce tree on Christmas still do not reinstated, although it is believed that this custom goes back to a much older tradition of "maypole".



6. Buyer bears his Christmas tree. It is believed that the first Christmas trees appeared in Germany about five hundred years ago, although the title of the homeland of ancient tradition to put the Christmas tree at Christmas is also struggling Latvia.



7. One of the reasons that made spruce symbol of Christmas is the fact that it is - an evergreen tree, which symbolizes eternal life.



8. In Germany Spruce in pagan times was especially revered and identified with the world tree.



9. The ancient Germans became the first New Year's fir tree, and later - the plant symbol of Christmas.



10. The seller packs the Christmas tree before you pass it on to customers.



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12. Among the Germanic peoples has long been the custom to go to the New Year in the forest, where chosen for the ceremonial role of fir tree decorated with lit candles and colorful rags, then near or around it commits the ceremonies.



13. Since spruce trees cut down and began to bring into the house where they were set on a table.



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15. Germans call Weihnachtsbaum, a Christmas tree is traditionally a live fir or pine, decorated with candles, beautifully wrapped candies, chocolates, unadorned and tinsel.



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17. After the baptism of the Germanic peoples customs and rituals associated with the worship of eating, began to gradually acquire a Christian sense, and it began to be used as a Christmas tree, setting the houses are no longer on the New Year and Christmas Eve (Christmas Eve, Dec. 24) and why it was called a Christmas tree.



18. Earned German custom to put on the Christmas tree to the beginning of the XIX century, began to spread to other countries in Europe.



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21. The first borrowed from German Christmas Tree inhabitants of northern European countries, although dressed tree has not received full recognition among them until the middle of the XIX century.



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23. In the Russian tradition of the Christmas tree dates back to the era of Peter the Great. Young Peter met this Christmas tradition in the German Quarter.



24. In 1916, the Christmas trees on Russian soil were in disgrace. As during World War II the nobility abandoned the language of Napoleon, since the war imperialist Holy Synod urged not to put the Patriots in homes thorny trees, because this tradition borrowed from the Germans



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26. And in 1918, on a Christmas tree up in arms again, this time - the Soviet government, which announced its bourgeois prejudice, closely associated with the disgraced religion. Nevertheless, many people continued to celebrate Christmas in secret.



27. The tree remained banned until 1935, when the idea is not to celebrate Christmas and the New Year. Star of Bethlehem was the five-pointed red, ornate trees and under the country by order of Stalin, along with Santa Claus met in 1935 after Christ. But on January 1 it became a day off only in 1949.



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