It's been around for like thousands of years in one shape or another, but the most recent version of Christmas that we see all around the world for the most part emerged during the 1800's.
By Oatmeal Joey Arnold
@OatmealJoey | @OatmealEnglish | @OatmealHealth | @JoeyArnoldVN I've always been very fascinated with history, with the origins of things, since I was a little boy. I've always been like a little Sherlock Holmes with oatmeal on top, whatever that means haha. I love solving puzzles. Christmas is like a Star Wars mystery box minus the Star Wars part. In order to better understand something, it is critical to begin with something, a starting point, good or bad, right or wrong, you gotta start where you are. So, we can begin our journey in trying to understand Christmas better starting with where we are. From there, we can work our way backwards through time to see where that takes us. For a very long time, Christmas has been the biggest holiday annually. Many people around this planet celebrate Christmas Eve (evening) on the 24th of December of each year and Christmas Day on the 25th. If I had to explain what Christmas was to some aliens, I would say to them that xmas is like a big birthday party for everybody, assuming that aliens knew what birthday parties were. So, for Christmas, we exchange presents. Christians generally celebrate the birth of Christ on Christmas. Our current version of Christmas features Christmas Trees, Santa Claus, Christmas movies, singing Christmas carols, snow, Baby Jesus, Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snow Man, presents, family reunions, milk, cookies, Christmas lights, Christmas decoration, elves, Home Alone, etc, etc. We could look at the history of all these different items. We could start with Santa Claus for example and work our way backwards. Facebook | Gab | Minds | Steemit | Twitter | YouTube | And More How long has Saint Nick been so fat? Well, since like 1931 which is when the Coca-Cola Company started using this rosy cheeked Santa by Legendary illustrator Haddon Sundblom and Santa has been red and fat ever since, generally speaking. Coca-Cola made Santa a lot more famous. Before that, there were other versions of Santa. So, they popularized this version of Santa which can be traced back to like the first of January of 1881 according to this drawing by Thomas Nast. Well, this other article says it was 1863. So, which was it? 1881 or 1863? Well, I say Thomas probably started drawing Santa in 1863 and perhaps that particular copy was printed in 1881. That's my educated guess. Merry Christmas, from my family to yours. So, what do you guys normally do for Christmas? Do you celebrate Christmas? So, on this Christmas Day of 2019, the last one of this current decade, the 2010's, I wanted to give you a brief outline to the history of Christmas, the holiday itself, and different things relating to it. I'm going to try to be as brief as possible for this first article of this series I'm doing on Christmas. So, I told you a little about the history of Santa. Well, there is more where that comes from. His origin can be traced back even further back in time. We can talk more about that next time. So, what do you think?
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2019-12-25 - Wednesday - 03:18 PM - Facebook | Steemit | Marilyn Mitchell replied today, Thursday, at 02:02 PM:
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Are you talking about the Pre-Coca-Cola's Red Fat Santa Christmas, specifically, as in the non-commercialized version, or specifically like early 1800's or a particular time period before the 1900's and/or after the 1900's in some ways?