Every major holiday has its own classic color scheme. Valentine's Day is marked by the color red. Halloween is known for orange and black. For Christmas, everything shines in green and red shades. Do you know why that is?
Our society has always connected christmas with red and green color combination. We simply accepted the fact that our home must be decorated in these color combinations. But you probably never did asked, how these two colors became the markers of Christmas?
If we read an interesting history book, we find that they are green and red became the colors of Christmas when people started marking holidays with colors. The Celts believed that red and green plants were they grow in the winter time, saints. With their colorfulness, these are also contributed to a more beautiful appearance of the surroundings. During the winter solstice, both Kleti and other peoples decorated their homes with red and green plants with the intention of giving them these bring good luck in the coming year.
This tradition continued even later in in the 14th century, when colors were used to decorate medieval church choirs, who served as the physical boundary between the priest and the faithful. University of Cambridge scientist Spike Bucklow states, that this physical boundary may have influenced that they people understood the colors as the end of the old year and the beginning of the new year at Christmas.
Despite that and important traditions We really have one person to thank for that red and green became the colors of Christmas. To Haddon Sundblom. Never heard of him? Sundblom is a man who is drew the most epic ad for Coca-Cola, in which Santa appears. Until then, nobody knew Santa Claus.
Sundblom decided to be the one the good and cheerful man wore red clothes. And as he says author of Secret Language of Color Arielle Eckstut, is exactly what this creative design did a change in the perception of Christmas. The number of advertisements featuring Sundblom's 'real' Santa was increasing. But the play anchored itself in our imagination about Santa Claus in red clothes and a green Christmas tree.
