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| 23 | The 600th anniversary of the Christmas tree (簡訳:クリスマスツリーの600周年) | ----------- | |
| ianVisits – London news and events | 2019-12-05 16:10 | ????0? | |
| Probably the best known earliest Christmas tree dates to 1419 – when the Honourable Guild of Bakers in the German city of Freiburg put up a fir tree for Christmas in the Hospital of The Holy Ghost for The Poor that was decorated with honey flavoured cookies, nuts, and dried fruits and left standing until New Year, then shaken to release the “fallen fruit” for the children to eat.The earliest known drawing of a decorated tree also comes from this part of Germany, as a copper plate of the Penance of Saint John Chrysostom by Lucas Cranach the elder of 1509 shows a tree with decorations on it, above a princess that the saint is “venerated” for having had sex with then murdering afterwards. Standards were a bit different in those days.All the way back in 1598, John Stow, writer of a Survey of London noted that “in the year 1444, that by tempest of thunder and lightning, on the 1st of February, at night, Powle’s steeple was fired, but with great labour quenched; and towards the morning of Candlemas day, at the Leaden hall in Cornhill, a standard of tree being set up in midst of the pavement, fast in the ground, nailed full of holm and ivy, for disport of Christmas to the people, was torn up, and cast down by the malignant spirit (as was thought)”The German tradition she brought comes from a story that the Protestant Reformer, Martin Luther, who is said to have wandered through a pine forest one winter’s night in 1536 and looked up to see the stars sparkling through the trees like ornaments adorning their branches. This inspired him to bring a pine tree into his home at Eisleben and illuminate it with wax candles to recreate the sublime effect.Ultimately, there as many origin stories for the Christmas tree as there are days of Christmas, and while something that later developed into the Christmas Tree as we would recognise it today is certainly older than 600 years, this evening, when the tree is lit in Trafalgar Square, we can at least celebrate the 600th anniversary of the earliest known example of a Christmas Tree. -- ???????? | |||
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