Christmas Tree Meaning

A christmas tree is a decorated tree usually an evergreen conifer such as a spruce pine or fir or an artificial tree of similar appearance associated with the celebration of christmas originating in northern europe.

Christmas tree meaning. Some believe the protestant revolutionary started lighting candles in trees after walking through the woods on a snowy night. But evergreen trees were a powerful symbol of survival as the only thing that remained green through the cold winter people believed that evergreens could ward off the evils of those long freezing nights. The custom was developed in medieval livonia present day estonia and latvia and in early modern germany where protestant germans brought decorated trees into their homes. The evergreen represented the image of god and new life in christ.

This according to a number of sources is the origin of the christmas tree as we know it today. Another legend of the christmas tree stems from martin luther. The christmas tree is actually much older than christianity only in the old days it wasn t called a christmas tree obviously and people didn t usually put the whole tree in their homes. According to the legend a fir tree grew from the fallen oak.