What is the meaning of dressing up the Christmas tree at Christmas?

Christmas tree has the symbolism of reunion, friendship and gratitude.

One, the symbolism of the various parts of the Christmas tree

The ancients used to hang red apples on the tree to symbolize the tree of good and evil, the evergreen tree symbolizes God's gift of eternal life, and the triangle of the Christmas tree, symbolizing the Trinity. The candles or colored lights on the Christmas tree symbolize the light of the world, and the star at the top of the tree symbolizes the bright morning star, or the star that guides the Doctor in the East, and is sometimes replaced by an angel of the Annunciation. The gifts under the tree symbolize salvation as a gift and grace from God.

Second, the legend of the Christmas tree

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a farmer, on Christmas Day, he met a poor child, he warmly received the child, the child was on the way out of the break off a pine branch stuck in the ground, the pine branch immediately turned into a tree, full of gifts hung on the top, used to thank the farmer's goodwill.

It is said that around the sixteenth century, the Germans were the first to take the branches of evergreen pines and cypresses to their houses for decoration. Later, the German missionary Martin Luther placed candles on fir branches in the woods and lit them to make them look like the starlight that led people to Bethlehem, just as the Three Wise Men from the East followed the star in the sky to Jesus 2,000 years ago. Today people have switched to using small light bulbs instead of candles.

The types of natural Christmas trees

1, the fir family

The fir family trees are native to the southern hemisphere (located in the southern hemisphere, except New Zealand, Australia, etc.), usually only in the southern hemisphere as a Christmas tree to use, the other regions are rarely used as a Christmas tree; in the Pine family and the fir family, due to the number of species of the Pine family, but the number of species of the fir family is ten. species is more than ten times that of the Fir family, plants in the Pine family are often used as Christmas trees.

2, pine fir

Pine fir genus of more than ten species of trees is the world's most used as a Christmas tree tree species, because of the fir's beautiful tree shape, color and smell of the people to like, as well as foliage in the felling after drying is not easy to take off, to become the most popular Christmas tree species. The European fir is considered the most traditional Christmas tree.

3, spruce and fir

These two trees have the same tower-like shape and strip-shaped hard foliage, is also one of the main species of Christmas trees. Norway spruce, due to easy to plant, inexpensive, so is a very common Christmas tree species.