Christmas is to go back to Spain, so the christmas tree can be set up. But why is it that only after the 5th of december? Traditiedeskundige Ineke strouken photographed explain.
for many centuries, certainly as early as the time of the Germanic people, celebrated people, in a period of time in which they were able to recover in the winter time. “In the past people thought two-times-the good and the bad. To bad it was in the winter season, which ran from 11 november to Easter,” said strouken photographed.
We now have a kind of winter sleep < / p> in the Midst of a dark, bleak period, there must be used, and the midwinterperiode. “It was a bleak, dark, and the people are hungry. It is precisely in that period of time, it was nice, made. To eat, close to the fire. This was purely in order to survive, since the worst months were still to come.”
But now, now that we have central heating and electricity in your home, it is tradition to remain in place. “We live in a hectic world where it’s always been. The function has been changed as follows: from survival to survive in today’s modern society. We now have a sort of daze.”
the christmas tree and there was a lot of resistance
the house is in the midwinterperiode to decorate it, it was there from the 21st of december, all kinds of green to the inside of the building. To-day, because it was thought that the people of that time – the shortest day of the year. There was no christmas tree, but there were branches in a vase, or as a series with each other, are bound. “The first mention of the christmas tree dates back to 1842. The christmas tree came from German immigrants, and girls in the Netherlands.”
“The first mention of a christmas tree in the Netherlands, dating back to 1842.”
Ineke strouken photographed, traditiedeskundige
In our country, there was a lot of resistance, but in the past half-century, most people in the so-called “midwinterperiode’. The tree is a tradition, after the Christmas set-up. “It was always like this: first to St. Maarten, then santa Claus and then Christmas.”
People put up their tree and getting rather up < / p> Today, the people, the tree is still rather down and said strouken photographed. “In the old days you could do that for much longer. Also, in the stores, we saw only christmas decorations after Christmas. But all of us will be affected by the garden centers, with their kerstafdelingen. The people are for the Devil all go there to look at it.”
In the Netherlands, we find that, according to strouken photographed with a real tree and it is beautiful. “We also want to be in the tree. In some countries, the trees are all full of it, but we want it to be green to be able to see it. This is because we have been accustomed to with the green boughs in the house. We teamed up with the nature within you, that is what we still are.”
The christmas tree will remain, according to the tradition, to the 6th of January, the three wise men are described. Otherwise, it would be unfortunate. “But today, the majority of the tree on the 2nd of January already. Then she sees him sitting there, as they have been previously, in the first place.”
you can Now get to the tree, getting faster and faster, into the house, and let it stand till the 6th of January. (Image: 123RF).
Traditions are hard to learn < / p> First, St-Maarten, then santa Claus and then Christmas day, according to strouken photographed in the meantime, however, a bit outdated. “But at the same time, we also have a regelvolkje. We want all the rules to create. I am worse and worse to me, sometimes, to get used to all of it in August, on their shelves. And I’m like, I don’t feel like it, which is associated with the month of november.”
the Traditions are, after all, difficult to learn, said strouken photographed. Therefore, we want to be able to properly get annoyed at people who do things differently. “It’s almost part of our DNA.”
