When you close your eyes and think of Christmas, you immediately see the colors red and green. We all love this holiday, but we rarely think about the symbolism of the objects and traditional colors that connect this holiday. Colors are often associated with important events and dates, they have interesting stories behind them, full of details from the history, traditions and customs of many peoples.
The meaning of the color green
Most Christmas colors are associated with traditions and customs when Christmas was spent in the dark and cold. The rise of color during this time is due to evergreens such as fir and spruce branches, ivy and thistle, which were used to decorate homes at the time. Green is reminiscent of a spring day, and that winter will not last forever. The ancient Romans exchanged evergreen sprigs during the winter holidays as a symbol of good luck, while the Egyptians exchanged palm trees.
In the Middle Ages they are on Christmas Eve staged games, which are showed paradise, and those who could not read were read stories from the Bible. In these depictions, the "tree of paradise" was a pine tree with apples, and that is why the green tree is still used as an angle today traditional symbol for the holiday.
The meaning of the color red
As already mentioned, the red apples adorned the pine tree, which acted as the tree of paradise and symbolized the fall of Adam. The berries on the crown, which represented Jesus' blood while dying on the cross, are also red, and red are also bishop's vestments. After all, this is also where Božičkov originates from red dress.
