Christmas tree's: fun facts
Posted by Steve Harmer on
Fun facts, all you ever needed to know about Christmas trees
OK, so where did it all begin — this enthusiasm for dragging a fir tree into the house to decorate for Christmas? Not with Queen Victoria and her hubby Prince Albert, as many people think.
The evergreen fir tree has traditionally been used to celebrate winter festivals (pagan and Christian) for thousands of years. Pagans used branches of it to decorate their homes during the winter solstice, as it made them think of the spring to come. The Romans used Fir Trees to decorate their temples at the festival of Saturnalia. Christians use it as a sign of everlasting life with God.
Nobody is really sure when Fir trees were first used as Christmas trees. It probably began about 1000 years ago…
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