In Western countries, Christmas is often considered the most important holiday of the year, similar to Lunar New Year in Asia.
While Asians use peaches, kumquats, and apricots as symbols when Tet comes, the West only has pine or spruce trees (belonging to the pine family) with deep green colors, brightly decorated with many accessories.
The pine tree is considered a symbol of Christmas, and helps ward off evil spirits, diseases and symbolizes prosperity and prosperity.
An old legend says that one Christmas night long ago, a poor woodcutter on his way home suddenly encountered a lost child who was weak from hunger.
When he woke up the next morning, the woodcutter saw a magnificent tree outside his door.
According to another legend, when Christianity was not yet born, trees that were green all year round often had a very special meaning for people in winter.
There is also another story that in the 8th century, Saint Boniface – an English priest – when going to Germany to spread Christianity, gave the city of Geismar a pine tree symbolizing love as well as new beliefs.
However, it was not until the 16th century that the custom of decorating Christmas trees became popular in Germany.
Along with this legend, many stories are also told but no one has really found the origin of the Christmas tree.
The pine tree today decorates the Queen of England’s Windsor Castle.
This activity later became fashionable in England and rich families used all the precious objects for decoration.
In America, a lot of controversy broke out about who introduced the custom of decorating Christmas trees to this land.
These images were widely circulated, making decorating pine trees a trend.
From the 20th century onwards, this decoration became a tradition in America.
In American families today, every Christmas, everyone is excited and often invites each other to the farm to buy fresh pine trees to decorate, with the lowest price being about 30 USD.
