Many choose Thanksgiving Day as a marker to the end of fall and the beginning of winter-and what better way to usher in winter than with a Christmas tree ? In fact, most home etiquette writers say that Black Friday is the earliest you should put up your Christmas tree. It’s common for American families to put up their Christmas trees on or near Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. It begins the fourth Sunday before Christmas and lasts until Christmas Eve, making the first day of Advent a popular time to raise your real or artificial Christmas tree. AdventĪdvent is when Christians commemorate and contemplate the birth of Jesus Christ.
If your family chooses to put up a real fir or pine tree, 12 days ensures it’ll stay lush and green until the new year. “The Twelve Days Of Christmas” has delighted the world since 1780, making it a marvelous time frame in which to put up your tree. But nowadays, it seems any time between Halloween and Thanksgiving is fair game. In the Victorian area, Christmas trees were stood up and decorated much closer to the holiday itself, often timed with religious occasions and feasts that fell near December 25. This was likely for practical reasons: It was a living tree decorated with lit candles and thus required quite a bit of space.
Interestingly, the American Christians of the 1900s didn’t put up their trees until the afternoon of Christmas Eve. So, of course, the British people quickly embraced the Germanic tradition.Įurope’s favorite Christmas decorations included popcorn, apples, candles, and nuts, but Americans soon adopted decorations such as tinsel, baubles, and handmade ornaments. Victoria was quite the trendsetter, and many modern Western traditions can be traced back to her (such as the white wedding). In Britain, decorated evergreen trees were essentially unheard of until Prince Albert brought a live Christmas tree to Queen Victoria from his native Germany.
It eventually gained nationwide popularity in the 20th century. In the 1800s, German Christians emigrated to Pennsylvania and brought their tree tradition with them. The Christmas tree tradition dates back to 1600s Germany when families hung candles in live trees and sang carols-some of which we still sing today.
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