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What is the history behind Christmas lights?

Joe Ford

What is the history behind Christmas lights?

Christmas lights actually started out just as candles. These candles were attached to the tree using wax or pins. The practice began in Germany during the 17th century and over the next 200 or so years; it became an established practice in Germany and began to spread out into other countries of Eastern Europe.

What symbols represent Christmas?

11 Popular Christmas Symbols and What They Really Mean

  • Wreaths. Marc Mcdermott / EyeEmGetty Images.
  • Candy Canes. Annette BunchGetty Images.
  • Christmas Tree. Village ProductionGetty Images.
  • Star Tree-Toppers. Alexandra Ribeiro / EyeEmGetty Images.
  • Holly.
  • Pointsettias.
  • Christmas Stockings.
  • Decorating With Lights.

Why do we have Christmas lights on houses?

As the lights became affordable to more people in the 1940s and 1950s, people decorated their houses to symbolize the Christmas star that was supposed to have led the Three Wise Men to the manger where Jesus was born on Christmas Day. The outdoor displays have become a symbol of the Christmas season.

What do the Christmas colors mean?

For hundreds of years, red and green have been the traditional colors of Christmas. Green, for example, represents the eternal life of Jesus Christ, just as evergreen trees remain green the whole winter long. Likewise, red represents the blood shed by Jesus Christ during his crucifixion.

What is the meaning of 25 December?

Why is Christmas Day on the 25th December? Christmas is celebrated to remember the birth of Jesus Christ, who Christians believe is the Son of God. The name ‘Christmas’ comes from the Mass of Christ (or Jesus).

Is the baptism of the Lord still Christmas?

Roman Rite Catholicism The Christmas season ends on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, a feast typically celebrated on the Sunday after Epiphany. Christmas season is followed by Ordinary Time.

What is the dominant liturgical color of the Christmas season?

Advent and Lent are periods of preparation and repentance and are represented by the colour purple. The feasts of Christmas Day and Christmastide, Epiphany Sunday, Baptism of the Lord Sunday, Transfiguration Sunday, Easter Season, Trinity Sunday, and Christ the King Sunday are represented by white.

Why is Christmas important to the Catholic Church?

Why is Christmas important to the Catholic Church? Christmas is an extraordinary event for the Catholic Church. It signifies the birth of the savior who is coming (in flesh) to meet people in the world. The Catholic Church designates the four-week period preceding Christmas as Advent.

What are the Catholic traditions?

Catholicism is a faith that revolves around the seven sacraments – baptism, reconciliation, Eucharist, confirmation, marriage, holy orders (joining the priesthood) and the sacrament of the sick (once called extreme unction or the last rites).

What color were the first Christmas tree lights?

Edward H. Johnson put the very first string of electric Christmas tree lights together in 1882. Johnson, Edison’s friend and partner in the Edison’s Illumination Company, hand-wired 80 red, white and blue light bulbs and wound them around his Christmas tree.