Weihnachten
tradition, food, Decorations, history, the tree and songs
By Hayden C.
Traditon of the tree
Some families have the tradition to always cut their own tree, or you can just bye them. With the tree they have lots of decorations.
pickle of the tree
So the pickle of the tree is something that the parents hide and it always goes on last. The first child to find this pickle gets an extra present.
Decoration of the christmas tree
Families may have a certain theme or color to their tree like red, green, orange, or underwater themes.
Tradition on the table
Chicken is traditionally on the table on the 24th of December. On Christmas eve there will be a small dinner and on the day after there will be a big dinner.
Ginger bread
Gingerbread is a warm desert that is tasty and good to dunk in hot chocolate when its cold snowy or rainy day to get warmed up. It is used for desert on the 24th of december.
Gluwein
Gluwein literally means glowing wine no Christmas celebrations (if your old enough) is completed without this drink. There are a lot of different homemade recipes of this drink. It also is warm and has and orange squeezed into it.
History of the song
Christmas carols first started in the church and they brought the tunes out of the church to the street.
Traditions
The traditions of Weihnachten is to sing on the street every night before the day of Christmas in Germany.
decorations of the tree
people can decorate the tree mostly any way they want. Most people will have god and red and green colors on their tree including the pickle
decorations of the table
the decorations on the table are much different then the tree including special plate and food like the ones you see in the picture.
Christmas calender decoration
This is a common and most popular (besides the tree) Christmas decoration that hangs on a wall or sits on something . This will count how many days before Christmas and the opening of the presents.