O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Your branches green delight us!
If you’re gathering around the Christmas Tree on this Christmas Eve, I thought we’d take a look at the origins of the Holiday greenery.
The origins of the classic Christmas Carol, O Christmas Tree come from the German folk song O Tannenbaum, which wasn’t originally associated with Christmas but extolled the consistence and faithfulness of the evergreen. While there is evidence of decorated trees associated with Christmas in Eastern and Northern Europe the centuries throughout the centuries, the Christmas Tree we came to know and cherish developed through the 19th Century. When Britian’s Queen Victoria married German Prince Albert the German “Christbaum” made it’s way to Great Britain. North Americans gained their first taste of the Christmas Tree via German soldiers in Quebec and grew from there.
Whether your tree is a fresh cut evergreen or a pre-lit ever-green from a box, gather round and enjoy your Christmas with family and friends.
They are green when summer days are bright,
They are green when winter snow is white.
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Your branches green delight us!
source: wikipedia