Hey friends!The custom of decorating a Christmas tree in the New Year's holiday for the first time appeared in German. For them, a sacred fir tree, which is home to a good "spirit forests" - the defender of the truth. Evergreen it symbolized immortality, courage, beauty, longevity and eternity itself, and its cones were the personification of health and eternal fire. Ancient Europeans "dressed up" the tree, hanging on her fluffy green apple branch - a symbol of fertility, the egg - a symbol of prosperity, development and harmony, nuts - which meant the incomprehensibility of the divine Providence. People believed that dressed so spruce branches scared off evil spirits and evil spirits. Christmas trees are also decorated with toys. From Germany the custom began to penetrate into other countries. In the Germanic peoples evergreen fir was considered a sacred tree, which is home to a good spirit. In Russia, the tradition has gone from our Slavic ancestors who dressed idol and dancing around him. Soon, instead of using the idol evergreen derevya- trees, pines, etc. As you can see, most often used to decorate sedobnoe products, but soon began to decorate nesedobnymi. Legend has it that it happened when one of the German province was a strong crop failure, and in the New Year celebration in the province would not find hundreds of beautiful and juicy apples, and hang on the tree withered apples frail people considered a sacrilege, because the output found We turned to glass blowers, so they blew glass apples for the holidays.I hope you will have nice New Year trees!
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