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Is the image of Santa Claus red at the beginning?

It's Christmas (December 25th), and all the skyscrapers in Beijing are beginning to decorate and prepare for this festive holiday.

Mention of Christmas, we naturally think of the white bearded, chubby, wearing a red (red and white, but mainly red) coat, the image of Santa Claus!

In Western fairy tales, Santa Claus rides a sleigh pulled by nine reindeer on the night of December 24 every year, going from house to house, entering the house through the chimney, and quietly placing gifts in the children's stockings at the end of their beds, or under the Christmas tree next to the fireplace after the children have gone to sleep.

Today, many people wear red Santa hats every Christmas. And the Santa Clauses in shopping malls and buildings are all red, too.

But was Santa Claus red in the first place?

No, actually.

So why did it become red later? Today we talk about the story of Christmas and Santa Claus.

Christmas (Christmas), also known as Christmas Day, translated as "Christian Mass" (Mass is a worship service of the Church), is a traditional Western holiday. It is called "Christmas" because it is celebrated by Christians on December 25th of each year, the day they commemorate the birth of Jesus.

Originally, Christmas was only a Christian holiday, but later, with the popularity of Christmas cards and the appearance of Santa Claus, it has been given extra attention and developed into a national holiday in Western countries, and it is the biggest festival of the year in Western countries, equivalent to the Spring Festival in China.

The birth of Santa Claus originated in European folklore.

According to common belief, Santa Claus refers to Nicholas, the bishop of Asia Minor in the 4th century A.D., who was known for his kindness and generosity to the poor.

But the image of Santa Claus that we see now was created in 1931 by the famous Swedish illustrator Hatton Shambu, who modeled the character on his friend Lo Prentiss. It was from 1931 that the image of Santa Claus began to be unified and fixed into the image of the "old man in a red robe, with a white beard, a kind smile, and a simple manner" that we can see everywhere nowadays.

Before 1931, the color of Santa Claus was different in different countries in the West, usually in yellow and green (now Westerners use red, green and white as Christmas colors). And Santa Claus was not a fat man then; on the contrary, Santa Claus before 1931 often looked gaunt and bony.

Yes, it wasn't until 1931 that the image of Santa Claus changed from a yellow or green, bony figure to a red, chubby one. The "mastermind" behind the change was not Hutton Shambles, who created the classic Santa image, but he was only commissioned to do so by the world-famous Coca-Cola Company, the real "mastermind.

Then, Coca-Cola contracted Hutton Shambles to create a Coke-drinking Santa Claus, and insisted that the color of his suit be bright Coca-Cola red. So Hutton Shambles created the classic image of a red-robed, white-bearded, smiling Santa Claus based on his friend Roe Prentiss, taking off his red hat with one hand and holding up a bottle of Coca-Cola with the other. Coca-Cola later made a poster of this image of Santa Claus with the famous slogan "The Pause That Refreshes" written underneath the poster.

Hatton Shambaugh went on to create hundreds of advertisements for Coca-Cola over the next three decades. His image of Coca-Cola's red Santa Claus took over the world with the mass distribution of Coca-Cola, and the red Santa Claus became the standard image of Santa Claus.

Today, Santa has become a global cultural icon.

It is no exaggeration to say that it was Coca-Cola alone that unified the image of Santa Claus. As a result, Coca-Cola has trademarked the image of Santa Claus.

Yes, Coca-Cola created the iconic image of Santa Claus, and in turn, Coca-Cola has always benefited from it. But Santa's influence doesn't stop there.

In the late 20th century, Santa's influence was such that SantaClaus'sHouse, the village of Rovaniemi, in the northern Finnish region of Lapland, became the home of Santa Claus. SantaClaus's House is a tourist attraction in Rovaniemi, the northern Finnish region of Lapland, Santa's home town. This Santa Claus Village has only 50 strictly audited, trained and licensed "genuine Santa Claus" in the world, whose appearance fee is even as high as 200,000 yuan.

The influence of Santa Claus can be seen in this way.

Christmas handbook how to draw

Christmas handbook drawing is: normal do bujo border, next to add some stripes, wreaths, Christmas socks, snowflakes and other elements can be, it is recommended to use the sketch or stickers, convenient and practical.

In addition to:

1, the same type of Christmas elements full-page hand-painted.

Balloons, Christmas socks, Christmas trees, Christmas lights, gift boxes and other small objects, with different colors full-page hand-painted on the handbook, bright colors, gorgeous, can highlight the festive atmosphere. However, this is suitable for those who can draw, hand-drawn technology is not very good, it is recommended to sketch or collage-based, lest fail to lose confidence in the handbook, it will not be worth the loss.

2, elemental accumulation type.

Will not layout of the handbooker can consider this method, collect some of the Christmas elements, hand-drawn or collage can be, one by one flat on a page, do not care too much about the placement of the location and direction, as long as the whole page on the line, you can also use the tape to do a border around the festive sense of Christmas immediately appeared.

3, leave white minimalist style.

The following picture so that the tape in accordance with a theme of orderly collage into a Christmas tree, simple atmosphere, but also very scenic. Like to draw can also be set aside a separate page to draw a pattern, Christmas wreaths, Santa Claus, Christmas gift boxes can be, next to no decorative details.

4, pure collage.

This method is the first choice of collage lovers. Will be a variety of Christmas style material in accordance with their own ideas collage, with a variety of rope to do decoration. Three-dimensional sense and retro sense both. Material can be a variety of shopping malls and stores leaflets, gift wrapping paper, homemade bookmarks, hand-drawn illustrations and so on. This method is also applicable to gift box packaging, there are Mori system of fresh and vulgar beauty.

Christmas picture books

Christmas is coming, this holiday should be children in addition to the Spring Festival, June 1 Children's Day, in addition to the most hoped-for and favorite holiday, in this sacred and quiet Christmas Eve, with the children sitting together at the cozy desk for parent-child reading is no more than a happy thing. I have organized some Christmas-themed picture books for mothers and fathers to refer to.

1, I love Christmas>> Christmas knowledge encyclopedia

It is very suitable for children under three years old to read, of course, some of the older baby is also very like.

This is one of the 7 books in the "I Love" ILOVE series. It is a set of cute, funny, sweet and cozy bilingual picture books brought by Popeye to children

Synopsis:

My name is O'Leary, and I love Christmas. I love crumpled paper, gold foil, ribbons, and a winged Christmas deer. My favorite thing about Christmas is the warm and funny bilingual picture books.

Christmas Fairy Tales***13 books

Table of Contents

2,Jimmy the Scarecrow's Christmas

3,The Three Christmas Trees

4,The Hijacking of Santa Claus,

5,The Christmas Masquerade

6,Baboosca

7,A Little Girl's Christmas

8,Everyday is Christmas. It's Christmas,

9,Promises

10,The Shoemaker's Guest

11,The Nutcracker

12,The Story of the Christmas Child

13,The Little Girl Who Sells Matches

14,Jingle Bells

Rarely available complete set of picture books with a Christmas theme

Contents

"Christmas Fairy Tales" is one of the "Master Picture Book Series". The book captures twelve foreign fairy tales about Christmas, some of which are created by world-renowned children's writers, and some are folklore, including Jimmy the Scarecrow's Christmas, The Three Christmas Trees, The Hijacking of Santa Claus, The Christmas Masquerade, Babushka, The Little Girl's Christmas, and the children's song Jingle Bells. The stories have warm words and touching plots, and the drawing style is skillfully integrated with the text, which is childish and elegant, creating a fairy tale world full of joy, beauty and fantasy. This is a New Year's gift book that allows young readers to savor the beauty of the classics and art of the masters in the dynamic rhythm and interactive associations between pictures and words.

15, Bunny Polly series: Merry Christmas

Austria's famous children's book writer Brigitte Winninger and France's famous illustrator Eve Taller cooperation "Bunny Polly" series, *** have 11 books, in the "Merry Christmas" episode, about the Polly put the family's food stocks are given to the forest animals, causing the animals to be in the forest. In this episode of "Merry Christmas", it is told that Polli gave all the food in the family to the animals in the forest, causing the whole family to almost go hungry on Christmas Day, but the family overcame the difficulties by working together and made a lot of good friends! This incident made Polly and the whole family realize that sharing makes people happy!

16,Baba Papa Classic Series: Baba Papa and Christmas Gifts

This set of Baba Papa series is really Coke's favorite ah, once for many months not to leave the hand.

Content Summary

Baba Papa, with his originality and sense of humor, provides joy to the world's big and little children. The harmony, warmth and love of Baba Papa's family will always warm the hearts of people all over the world.

The book introduces "Kori Kori Kori, Baba Changes!" This is an animated line that used to be a household name in China. Baba Papa was created by French cartoonist Drews Taylor and his wife Annette Tyson. The first book in the series, The Birth of Baba Papa, was published in 1970, and when it first appeared, it was praised by the authorities of the British literary and art criticism, and widely acclaimed at the Bologna Book Fair. 1975, the Federal Republic of Germany adapted the story of Baba Papa into an animated film, which premiered in the U.S. in 1981, and soon became popular around the globe.

17,Santa's Kingdom

Very funny story, Coke every time to see the book Santa Claus medical checkup weighing, it is happy to laugh, and then rushed to the home of the weighing scale. .......

Synopsis

On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus travels around the world to deliver well-prepared gifts to good children. Only one Santa Claus? That's not enough! In the forests of the far north, there are many Santa Clauses!

But what do they do on weekdays besides Christmas? How do they know who the good kids are? And what will you get this year? Don't worry, Santa's got it all covered!

18,Pépère Bears - Meet the Christmas Bears

About the book

Only two days after Thanksgiving, you can see Christmas decorations and hear Christmas music all over the Bear Kingdom.

"I think," says Mama Bear as the Pepe Bear family arrives at the Community Mall, "that Christmas is coming earlier and earlier every year."

"Yes! Isn't it great?" Papa Bear said as he admired the Christmas decorations around him.

.......

19,Etta Bear and Xena Mouse: Christmas Tree in the Snow

This set of books Coke love, this one is my big favorite, very very beautiful!

There are 12 books in this set, and this book "Christmas Tree in the Snow" is one of the picture books on the theme of Christmas

Content Summary

The story of Ate Bear and Sena Mouse is a series of picture books created by Belgian painter Gabrielle Vincennes during 1980-2000, a gentle bear, a mouse, a mouse, a bear and a mouse, a bear, a bear, a bear and a mouse. A gentle bear and a spoiled mouse snuggle up to each other and depend on each other. The pictures are beautiful and the story is so beautiful that it will bring tears to your eyes. It is suitable for both children and adults.

This book is part of a series in which Ate wants to prepare a big Christmas party for Xena. Xena, however, is fascinated by a small fir tree that has been abandoned because of its ugliness, and she wants to spend Christmas with Ette in the snow, next to the small fir tree. They convince each other and compromise.

The snowy Christmas scenes in this book are so beautiful! The magnificence of the snow in the forest, the romance and the mystery. The little fir tree that fascinates Xena is even more mysterious, and it reminds you of Xena's life.

20,Father Christmas

To be honest, there are some phrases in this book that I don't like. There are many times when the word "damn" appears in this book, and this Father Christmas is a kind of Santa Claus who likes to complain. For example, when he wakes up in the morning, he sees the calendar and says. "It's goddamn Christmas again." Then "goddamn snow," "goddamn chimneys," "goddamn soot." "Bloody soot." ........ However, this is for the Kate Green Award for the most civilian, the most friendly and lovely Santa Claus it

Synopsis

The annual Christmas season is coming, and so is the busiest day of the year for Father Christmas. The chubby Father Christmas has to deliver a large carload of presents to the children, but unfortunately, he encounters snow, rain, lightning, fog and other bad weather one after another, and has to work hard to climb up and down the chimney. After a hard day's work, how will Father Christmas spend his Christmas?

Daddy Christmas is one of Raymond Briggs' best picture books. One of Raymond Briggs' best picture books, it won the 1973 Kate Greenaway Award. Greenaway Award. It is one of Raymond Briggs' most outstanding picture books, winning the 1973 Kate Greenaway Award. Briggs in this book for the first time to try to use the form of multi-panel cartoon creation, bright colors, flexible form, to create a flowing picture effect. This picture book, which completely overturns the traditional image of Santa Claus, answers an interesting question: What if Santa Claus is just an ordinary old man? It's funny and irreverent, but full of the warmth and joy of Christmas, making children feel a special kind of kindness and happiness at Christmas and every day that isn't Christmas. >> Featured:Let your baby play with Christmas

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