"Oh, Tannenbaum" is still relatively widely sung here in Germany.

@dstr3ss

Жыл бұрын

Really... How could that be possible? 😹

@oldrichmarek419

Жыл бұрын

i believe the mellody is a little different?

@AnnaVannieuwenhuyse

Жыл бұрын

Same here in Belgium!

@MikeAltogether

Жыл бұрын

I've definitely sung both O Tannenbaum and the English version in churches and schools in the US.

@olivenstein

Жыл бұрын

Oh Tannenbaum, oh Tannenbaum wie grün sind deine Blätter! Du grünst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit, nein auch im Winter wenn es schneit. Oh Tannenbaum, oh Tannebaum Wie grün sind deine Blätter! 🌲

Along the same line, Germanic tribes believed that spirits lived in trees, so if they were going to cut one, they would knock on the tree beforehand to give the spirit time to find another home. To not knock would bring the ire of the spirit upon you and your family...hence, knock on wood to prevent evil from happening.

@ETS186

Жыл бұрын

Wooooow...a lot of comments are funny, a lot are toxic...and a lot are informative, like yours. Thank you!

@Wotsitorlabart

7 ай бұрын

​​@@ETS186 But unfortunately in this case completely wrong - absolutely no evidence for that theory at all. The earliest references to 'touching wood' (the UK version of 'knock on wood') are from 1805 and 1828 and probably came from the very well known children's game of the time 'Tiggy-touch-wood', a chasing game where the pursued is safe if he or she touches wood of some sort. There was a chant - "Tiggy, tiggy, touch wood, I've got no wood" to tease the chaser.

@abbikadabie5841

5 ай бұрын

@Wotsitorlabart he isn’t wrong … it only took a quick google? The phrase “knocking on wood” is english, but knocking on trees is a proto Celtic tradition that is preserved in folklore beyond the 1800s. A lot of cultures have a “knocking on wood” related practice.

@kidaria1333

4 ай бұрын

interesting I didn't know that

@casualretrocollector

3 ай бұрын

@@abbikadabie5841that’s very interesting as the original Celtic tribes originated in parts of Germay/Austria

When you're so American, even in a video about Germany, you still manage to mention Mount Rushmore

@PrivateAccountXSG

Жыл бұрын

Youre aware this video is made in America, right?

@RandyMahnke

Жыл бұрын

@@PrivateAccountXSG that doesn't change the fact that mt. rushmore has absolutely nothing to do with the topic

@Wanderlauch

Жыл бұрын

But also: who cares.

@tubester4567

Жыл бұрын

@@RandyMahnke Did you watch the video? The connection about Mount Rushmore was explained in the video.

@RandyMahnke

Жыл бұрын

@@tubester4567 yes I did. There is no connection, it was fabricated. Totally useless

And the „Adventskranz“ / Advent wreath and the „Adventskalender“ / Advent calendar are also German things in the weeks prior to christmas

@Gpcas9

Жыл бұрын

But you can keep your Krampus. No idea where this came from. Some obscure rite from a bavarian village, was falsly made to a german thing somehow.

@gulliverthegullible6667

Жыл бұрын

@@Gpcas9 Krampus is certainly NOT a thing all over Germany.

@DerMBen

Жыл бұрын

@@Gpcas9 It's also a thing in multiple parts of Austria. So while it's not a thing throughout Germany, it's not from 'one village in bavaria' either.

@pablosantanatur9122

Жыл бұрын

Actually the Christmas tree was first decorated in Riga (Latvia) in 1510, way before the original song of O Tannenbaum was written (around 1 century later). It was erected by the guild of merchants, which traveled across Northern Europe (the Hanseatic League). The tree was decorated with natural motives and burnt to honor the god of sun, as a way of praying for the god to heat up the city during the cold winter. As you may know, Germans founded the city of Riga, so it's fair to say that this is a German thing. The truth is it's origin is Baltic.

@gulliverthegullible6667

Жыл бұрын

@@DerMBen it's quite likely that the Krampus spilled over from Austria to Bavaria, so it is not German in origin at all.

This is the first time I have heard adults sing tannenbaum.

@ThierryVerhoeven

Жыл бұрын

South Park once had a Christmas themed episode in which it was performed by none other than holly jolly Adolf Hitler. 🎅🏻 I guess that counts as being sung by an adult…

@ardaduck735

Жыл бұрын

Same here, sounds cool though

@tammygant4216

Жыл бұрын

I've heard adults sing it several times.....but I grew up in Germany so that's probably why :)

@MathiasBacher

Жыл бұрын

But they didn't play a nice version of it 🤔

@AlexanderBlues1228

Жыл бұрын

Nat Cole performed it in German and English on his Christmas album.

It's really weird to see those old Christmas trees weren't burnt by extensive decorations of lit up candles 🙃

@squdioodellover2589

Жыл бұрын

They were. Sometimes. You have to really careful to not knock them over.

@arianaink100

Жыл бұрын

They often caught on fire to the point that that while queen Victoria did have one with candles other English commoners lost their houses and they had to prohibit it in some places. (Making ornaments to catch sunlight/reflections instead of lights and eventually electric lights replacing candles all together) It’s why tinsel is so popular as a cheap replacement or alternative to expensive decor like glassware

@Faroesx

Жыл бұрын

@@arianaink100 Great insight!

@anthonyd-g1993

Жыл бұрын

Idk people put candles on trees every year and it never burns. Only if its an old and dry tree the danger increases which is why people use fresh trees

@MrAronymous

Жыл бұрын

It was standard to put a bucket of water next to it.

The Victorian era really was such an influential era

@user-lr6hw4dq4t

Жыл бұрын

Yess. My favorite era

@anthonygordon9483

Жыл бұрын

Its a era you see even today with clothing, furniture, etc. Even parts of the white house is still decorated with Victorian era furniture to some what preserve the look of the house that its always been for a century.

@greghuffman3061

Жыл бұрын

My favorite is the attitude era. 2 middle fingers up for lord stone cold steve austin

@stevenbenhamouche8393

Жыл бұрын

Everyone loves the Victorian era and it’s flavour of colonialism 😮‍💨

@maximus8574

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenbenhamouche8393 no one was talking about colonialism

That Charlotte/Mecklenburg ending 👌

A rather unknown fact : The first appearance of a Christmas tree in North America, with its branches decorated with fruits and lit with candles, goes way back to 1781 in the town of Sorel (now Sorel-Tracy) in Quebec, Canada in the historical building that is now known as "La maison des gouverneurs" (The Governors House), by german baroness Riedsel when she hosted a Christmas party for British and German officers.

@majrminer

Жыл бұрын

Cite your source.

@TheGlitchRoom

Жыл бұрын

@@majrminer It was revealed to them in a dream.

@bluecheesybob

Жыл бұрын

@@majrminer You work as a college professor? Why are you intent on getting a source in such an inconsequential forum?

@patriciosolorzano5737

Жыл бұрын

@@majrminer You can just search for it if you dont trust the info. The story is easy to find.

@adriendauphinais1200

Жыл бұрын

I worked at the local museum one summer, and we had a room dedicated to that house and that story. Also that house still exists, it's now the local visitor center as well as an art gallery!

The first public Christmas trees were placed by German merchant guilds in Livonia in what are modern Tallinn, Estonia and Riga, Latvia. There are records of such public trees from as early as 1441.

@niclasavasjo788

Жыл бұрын

Yes this videos is so overly simplified that it becomes comical, but I guess the title is "How Christmas trees stopped being just a German thing" so they are maybe trying to stay on topic and keep it short I guess: God Jul!

@fatboyRAY24

Жыл бұрын

If you wanna be technical, Evergreens were first used during the winter solstice in ancient Egypt and Rome for pagan traditions that would later be replaced with the birth of christ out of convenience, only much much later would Germans appropriate this ancient tradition.

@pablosantanatur9122

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely true! Actually the Christmas tree was first decorated in Riga (Latvia) in 1510, way before the original song of O Tannenbaum was written (around 1 century later). It was erected by the guild of merchants, which traveled across Northern Europe (the Hanseatic League). The tree was decorated with natural motives and burnt to honor the god of sun, as a way of praying for the god to heat up the city during the cold winter. As you may know, Germans founded the city of Riga, so it's fair to say that this is a German thing. The truth is it's origin is Baltic.

@eksiarvamus

Жыл бұрын

@@pablosantanatur9122 the first instance is known to have been in Tallinn though in 1441. :)

@bishplis7226

Жыл бұрын

there was no germany in 1441, therefore, no germans.

I always thought it was Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (from the heavily-forested German state of Thuringia) who was the one who brought the Christmas tree tradition to England. You didn't bridge the gap, though, between Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria's dad was a son of Charlotte, the Duke of Kent. So the Duke knew and probably approved of the Christmas tree tradition. However, her mother was also a German--Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Again, from the northern regions of Germany. So the Christmas tree tradition was further reinforced by Queen Victoria's very German mother.

@gitgut4977

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Coburg by a direct Descendant of His Brother :)!

@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

Жыл бұрын

Amen.

@pablosantanatur9122

Жыл бұрын

Actually the Christmas tree was first decorated in Riga (Latvia) in 1510, way before the original song of O Tannenbaum was written (around 1 century later). It was erected by the guild of merchants, which traveled across Northern Europe (the Hanseatic League). The tree was decorated with natural motives and burnt to honor the god of sun, as a way of praying for the god to heat up the city during the cold winter. As you may know, Germans founded the city of Riga, so it's fair to say that this is a German thing. The truth is it's origin is Baltic.

@horstuwe3099

Жыл бұрын

If I got it right, it was actually mentioned. There was a part in the video about Charlotte's granddaughter Victoria marrying her cousin Albert from Germany et cetera er cetera.

@SlickSpeedy

Жыл бұрын

@@pablosantanatur9122 what’s being discussed in this thread isn’t, however, it’s origin, but the way I’m which the tradition found it’s way to England, and thus spread throughout the Anglosphere.

Fun fact: Decorating pine trees as "Christmas Trees" is a tradition that originates all the way back to the Bronze Age, where Hittites decorated pine trees with various "ornaments" from walnut shells to sacks full of barley grains to celebrate the equinox season as "rebirth of nature," their holy day. Equinoxes are celebrated by some people to this day in Turkey.

@benja_mint

Жыл бұрын

If we're talking about Christmas, do you mean winter solstice rather than equinox?

@phobosex7504

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: christmas didnt exist untill long after the bronze age

@benja_mint

Жыл бұрын

@@phobosex7504 which is why he used the quotation marks

@phobosex7504

Жыл бұрын

@@benja_mint ok

@benja_mint

Жыл бұрын

@@phobosex7504 Christmas trees as we call them today have only been around for ~300 years but evergreen trees have long been a symbol of life and brought inside the homes to celebrated the winter solstice going back a long long way. Whether the whole way back to the bronze Age, I don't know.

In the Contemporary version of "oh Tannenbaum" it's not "how faithful are your leaves" but "how green are your leaves"

@eyesofthecervino3366

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. It's sad how much can get lost in translation

“It’s cold this month. Let’s cut some trees to warm the world”

It’s hard to be believe that at one point people didn’t have trees in their houses.

@bobbyjohnson1738

Жыл бұрын

@Zaydan Alfariz with all due respect that’s a subjective point of view. I’d rather wear cowboy boots, jeans, and a camouflage hat. Capitalism breeds a more diverse set of cultures

@samsonsoturian6013

Жыл бұрын

It's hard to believe at one point people used real trees and real candles in their houses.

@scholargnome

Жыл бұрын

As far as I know, a lot of Christian cultures in the tropics used to never have Christmas trees inside their homes during Christmas. Christmas lights and garlands were the norm. I think that this is still the norm in many Christian families in the tropics.

@scholargnome

Жыл бұрын

@Zaydan Alfariz They do sell plastic ones, but they're such an expensive decor only to be used one month of the year. It's not really practical. The closest alternative is just decorating the real trees outside your house.

@megamastah

Жыл бұрын

@Zaydan Alfariz Right, comrade. You are free to move to Cuba or North Korea.

loved the connection from Charlotte to Charlotte at the end. Fun.

Dutch: Oh denneboom, oh denneboom, wat zijn uw takken wonderschoon.

@samsonsoturian6013

Жыл бұрын

It's funnier if you let Google translate

@sebastiangruenfeld141

Жыл бұрын

This sounds atrocious.

@lauriensnijers2322

Жыл бұрын

ik heb uw laatst in het bos zien staan, toen hongen er nog geen lichtjes aan

I had never expected to hear Mecklenburg mentioned in a Vox video, being from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern myself.

Thanks for this Phil, its very interesting how German culture is super intertwined with American culture (never thought of it but like burgers and hot dogs which are considered so USA also came from German culture and we just don’t think about it) - merry christmas and happy holidays!

@Luboman411

Жыл бұрын

The same with the love of beer, microbreweries, beer gardens and the like. Budweiser and Anheuser-Busch are both very German names after all. That being said, German culture is not as celebrated in America as Irish or Italian or even Polish culture because of the vehement anti-German sentiment in the U.S. during WWI. Which then got worse in WWII. So German-Americans have kept their cultural contributions to the U.S. very much under wraps. They didn't want to suffer a nasty backlash.

@uitham

Жыл бұрын

"cookies" comes from the dutch word of "koekjes". they were introduced in new york which has big dutch roots.

@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much.

@seeburgm100a

Жыл бұрын

Let's not forget that English is basically a Germanic Language..

@ItchyKneeSon

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention the English language!

I live in Lunenburg County in Nova Scotia. It is called the Balsam Fir Christmas Tree capital of the world because of all the tree farms around here. There was a lot of German immigration here in the late 1700s and along with the German name of the county, it's fitting that there are a lot of tree farms here.

This feels such a wholesome episode.....

This video is so clever, so beautifully thought and written. Thank you for gracing us this on Christmas, Vox!

Today I realised that my operating systems book was written by a fir tree

@Blex_040

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I studied computer science in Germany and it was quite the odd name for such a book xD

Funny though that the tradition of having a Christmas tree and putting the presents around it made it to the anglo-saxon world but not the tradition of opening them on Christmas eve instead of the 25th.

@MrDukeSilverr

Жыл бұрын

As far as I know the British royal family actually opens their presents on Christmas Eve, due to the German heritage

Regarding the waste of Christmas trees. In the German countryside the used Christmas trees are getting collected by the youths in the middle of January every year and stacked in a specific place (mostly on a hill). When Eastern comes around the trees and other old branches etc. are getting stacked up to a big heap. Many people are coming together around the heap, which then gets lit up around 9pm on either Friday/Saturday or Sunday (every village has their specific day) for the Osterfeuer (easter fire) celebration. In this way they are used twice for celebrations.

The German custom comes from German paganism. "Tree cults" we call them, where given trees were said to have exotic properties (I.E. a tree that survives a lighting strike was "blessed by Thor"). Tree cults were still being discovered in Germany in the late 18th century.

@hulagu3068

Жыл бұрын

Humans have such a strong connection with trees probably because human ancestors used to live in them.

@samsonsoturian6013

Жыл бұрын

@@hulagu3068 We all use to live around them, anyway. Urban life is the exception in human civilization, not the norm.

@BakrAli10

Жыл бұрын

Bookmark comment later

@valwhatever5409

Жыл бұрын

You have a source for that ?

Sure thats why the Christmas tree became popular in our culture but why did the kings of Christmas (Germany) start hauling trees into their homes. I was hoping for that answer.

@galador8089

Жыл бұрын

Probably it has its roots in pagan culture but i dont know either

@olafsigursons

Жыл бұрын

part of Yule tradition.

@okmarshall

Жыл бұрын

@@olafsigursons Yes we know it's tradition. But why? What started the tradition, what is the symbolism?

@kaitlyn__L

Жыл бұрын

Another commenter here says “tree cults” were just a big thing all round in Germany since forever. They say a tree struck by lightning was “blessed by Thor”, and every tree species apparently had its own properties/spirit. They don’t explain what the fir tree supposedly did, but it can be inferred the spirit it had was supposed to help with midwinter hardship.

@kadmii

Жыл бұрын

according to tradition, Saint Boniface, when he came to convert the Germans to Christianity, cut down a revered oak tree to demonstrate that Thor had no power over him. From next to the stump of the oak, a fir tree (which, unlike the oak tree, stays green throughout winter and thus is a year-round symbol of life) sprouted up. Contrary to popular belief, it was the oak tree (not the evergreen) that was revered by the Germanic pagan tribes, and these were special trees in special groves left outside and untouched, because cutting them down was seen as sacrilegious. The elevation of evergreens to a highly-prized status is a development of and by Germanic Christians, and they're the ones who started placing trees inside and into public squares during Advent.

Merry Christmas to you all! And thank you for informing me of this.

Always enjoying Vox's videos! Thank you!

This was a nicely wrapped video, clear, concise, and to the point. Great job Vox

Thanks for this story. Amazing

That last line was perfection. Bet you were very happy when you found that piece :D

It’s not really surprising that German traditions sooner or later found their way into American culture since Germans are still the largest group of ancestors by country in the US (the UK is a union of countries). Up to this day a lot of typically American traditions were originally German or influenced by Germans

@redsharktooth22

Жыл бұрын

Well, up until 1870 germany was also not really a thing... But there sure is some German influence in American traditions

@evilofparadise

Жыл бұрын

@@redsharktooth22 a German nation-state didn’t exist sure, but Germany, the German nation, certainly did.

@xxklesx1

5 ай бұрын

@@redsharktooth22 The Holy Roman Empire lasted 1000 years. And from the 15th century onwards it had the suffix “German Nation”. The German Empire, which was founded in 1870, was not called the “Second Empire” for nothing. And that didn't unite all Germans either. Austria was independent because they decided against uniting all German states ("Kleindeutsche Lösung" Little German solution). The war between Prussia and Austria before the unification was called the German-German war because the two largest German states fought for supremacy over the other german states.

@kordellswoffer1520

5 ай бұрын

The uk is not a union of countries but a union of nations and that itself is largely untrue. Britain is largely a single ethnic group and culture group at this point and for that reason Britain is the largest ethnicity in America especially considering that nost identify as American and they’re mostly old stock Saxons.

@kordellswoffer1520

5 ай бұрын

@@evilofparadiseyeah so does the British nation.

Oh Tannenbaum

Brilliant fact for Xmas dinner talk ❤

what a fascinating story!

It's sad to see how little people actually know about Christmas...

@mtaylorfoofa

Жыл бұрын

German Christmas you mean?

@andrewdunckley

Жыл бұрын

@@mtaylorfoofa the whole concept,,, the true history behind it,,, not the commercialised thing we see...

@olafsigursons

Жыл бұрын

@@oldbeergangster2381 It's just a pretext to gather together, like the lunar new year. I am not capitalist or Christian but Xmass is fun.

@LuukvdHoogen

Жыл бұрын

like Easter it's a pagan festival that Christianity sort of integrated. So in my view it's mainly about celebrating the days getting longer and breaking the long dark nights with festivity. And you can add jezus if you like as well.

@Josh-zn4yi

Жыл бұрын

How exactly is it sad? I don’t know all the history behind every other religion so why should christianity be an exception?

Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun deutsches Eigentum!

This is possibly the best video I’ve seen by Vox. Wonderfully put together!

Merry Christmas !

Title option: how the Christmas tree, originated from Germany, became an international thing

Great video!

You do the animation too Phil? That's cool.

Honestly, it feels so weird to know that Christmas Trees are a relatively young Christmas trend

@swunt10

Жыл бұрын

The traditional evergreen tree or at least tree branch in the house during the winter solstice is as old as civilization. It just didn't survive as a tradition everywhere. It's a good thing that germans kept the tradition and it was not completely forgotten. It's probably one of the oldest traditions we humans stills do.

@masterphil3066

Жыл бұрын

Not in Germany

What was the music playing at the start of the episode?

Those candles on the tree, such a giant fire hazard.

Nice Recommendation ⭐

Interesting! But we really need to talk about the point of saying “can see from space” if we’re referring to high resolution satellite cameras

@SimonVelazquez

Жыл бұрын

Came here to say this too. Bugged me both times it was said.

Great video! Now do the history of the aluminum pole 😛

I never understood the phrase "you can see it from space", because you can't. You need telescopes but again that way you can see a lone tree or a person in some cases, will that mean anything special?

Queen Victoria was the ultimate influencer.

Fascinating! I hope you do a video on mistletoe!

@TimeTheory2099

Жыл бұрын

Mistletoe, wreaths and sacred trees are from the Druid religion that, at one time covered most of western Europe. Until the Roman legions came.

Hey vox, can you do mistletoe next? What other Christmas plants are you show us next?

To be fair, you can technically see everything from space.

"They aren't in the Christian Bible." This should be the most important statement one could learn on this video about christmas trees.

@MsEdgely

Жыл бұрын

Because Christians adopted a lot of their traditions from the Celts. It was their way of converting people to Christianity. So holidays like Christmas and Easter are linked to Celtic holidays and traditions. Even the Holy Trinity is linked to the Celts.

@amakiethagod5622

Жыл бұрын

@@MsEdgely please expand on the last sentence

@berulan8463

Жыл бұрын

Yep, there are no tannenbaums in the holy land.

@MsEdgely

Жыл бұрын

@@amakiethagod5622 The father, son, holy spirit. The Trinity. Celts believed that things of importance came in 3's, which is why they also have the Trinity knot. This was incorporated by Christians as a method to convert Celts to Christianity. Even Holy Water is derived from the Celts, with links to Goddesses - one being Brigid. Look it up.

@derbagger22

Жыл бұрын

Most ideas of pagan belief originate from ancient Babylon and Egypt.

Answer to title: "Money!" - Mr Krabs.

Great video.

Great history! What is the song starting to play around 2:28?

Today I learned "Maryland, My Maryland" got the tune from a German song about fir trees

I wonder where the tradition to put nativity sets under the tree originates from, then. Or the one to put presents under it.

@samsonsoturian6013

Жыл бұрын

Presents at Christmas didn't come around until roughly 1800.

@guppy0536

Жыл бұрын

Short answer Christians...really any other answer. Shoving their religion down everyone's throats

Fun Fact: The hymn of Maryland is the same music from „Oh Tannenbaum“

What is this famous Christmas song at the beginning called, can't find it anywhere?

@axolotlhappy2340

Жыл бұрын

Carol of the Bells?

@nekonesto5601

Жыл бұрын

@@axolotlhappy2340 Thanks!!

Where is 2022 a look back video I am waiting for it very excitedly😄😄

Small world this. I grew up outside Charlotte, NC

I can spot a Phil video from space.

As soon as I saw this title, I was like "This sounds like a Phil Edwards video" and then I remembered Phil still works for Vox, lol.

Anyone know whose rendition of Tannenbaum that is?

George III was german as well, his gamily was from Hanover. Thats how they got to marry each other

@JJaqn05

Жыл бұрын

He wasn't German, his distant ancestors came from Germany

Mama, how’re u gonna put candles all over a dead tree and not have a problem?

Really good channel for the learning English

@ProgessivesBwhitetho

Жыл бұрын

no no no

bros be like "you can see from space" like it's something impressive with modern satellite image quality i could detect a squirrel on a lawn

Victoria was not exposed to the Christmas tree by Charlotte. They did not live in the same palace. Her mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg Saalfield (obviously German) would have exposed her to this tradition regardless of Charlotte.

It's the 1,2,3 Man'll cut down your Christmas tree 🎶🎶

3:47 I was born here! (Also, I live near that city. I currently live in Harrisburg, NC. (Yes, that city exists.))

Is it me or VOX has had a massive improvement in quality of video

yo whats the music in the background at the start?? It seems so familiar....

@DK-ng6nd

Жыл бұрын

Carol of the bells. Appeared in Home Alone, Santa Clause and loads of other Christmas movies.

Dang my brain expected a Phil Edwards breakdown after the main video ended

Now we just need em' to celebrate on the 24th too!

"You can see [X] from space" has become a useless statement in an era where we can resolve a bicycle.

@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

Жыл бұрын

I am blind.

How did Christmas trees become a thing in the Anglosphere* Christmas trees had spread from Germany to other European countries (especially Scandinavia) before they were popularized in Britain and later America.

christmas trees do be goin viral

Der klinken thingy? Elfin fertin'

What is that Christmas melodi called from 0:15 ? xd

@NA.NA..

Жыл бұрын

Carol of the bells

very cool

1:03 "Treu"? I only know that song with "green" which makes a lot more sense considering they remain green year-round.

@Brian-fr9jr

Жыл бұрын

the song has multiple versions with slightly different variations

@zafelrede4884

Жыл бұрын

No, treu makes more sense.

@BlackWater_49

Жыл бұрын

@@zafelrede4884 Ok, then please go ahead and explain to me how your relationship with a tree leave works because of how faithful it is... (I do know what you mean, and yes, it's not completely without sense but green still makes more sense than faithful does.)

You cant see them from space.

@rohwermusicstudios

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I was hoping someone else would pick up on this. I was going to let it slide, but he said it twice at least. I know it’s meant to sensationalize how big the Christmas tree farms are, but I thought it was kind of silly. In an exaggerated form I would say: “You can see this penny from space!” And then film 2 feet above it “in space”

Whats the name of the classic music at the beginning? The melody?

@NA.NA..

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Carol of the bells

@truthallone3502

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@@NA.NA.. thank you

Me, a North Carolinian, only now learning why it's called Mecklenburg county lol

more fun facts: the stonians are the first in recorded history to have an actual christmas "tree", in the town square. not long after, the latvians were the first ones to decorate one.

It’s weird how Queen Victoria spread those traditions such as X-mas tree and white wedding dress worldwide. It proves how powerful British kingdom and its influence was.

Nowadays you can see everything from space. It's just a matter of good optics in your satellite.

The first christmas tree wasn’t displayed in Germany, it is actually contested between Tallinn, Estonia; and Riga, Latvia.

@mistermist634

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But placed by German merchants. The German Hanseatic league trade empire had huge trading points in both of these cities at the time and Germans placed them there

@suides4810

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@@freedomordeath010 which assumes that german people dont have Paganini roots

@freedomordeath010

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@@mistermist634 Your comment makes sense. If those cultural practices had their origins in Germany, the first recorded ‘christmas tree’ would have been displayed in their own country, and not in faraway lands. It is a well known fact that the balts would celebrate the changing of seasons, and one way in which they celebrated the winter solstice was by decorating the indoors with chopped down trees, twigs etc. These practices pre-date Christianity and a German national/ethnic identity.

@rzuue

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@@freedomordeath010 well, the German Christmas traditions don’t come from Christianity either. Germans as well, as far back as when they were only mere tribes around the year 0, celebrated the winter solstice. It’s a very common tradition in European cultures. Putting up green things inside the house as well. And that’s how the Christmas tree tradition originally started - with putting plants inside during winter. I’d say it’s near impossible to say where the first Christmas tree was put up, since it’s unlikely that it was recorded or that it was made public. It might’ve been just the idea of one person which others liked and adapted. That means, we can’t be sure that it was really in Germany, but we can’t prove it wrong either.

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The song actually translates to "oh great tree" the Christmas tree of originally known as the Yule tree was draped in white during Yule, and then burned. That is it's true origin.

@blackforest_fairy

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wrong Tannenbaum means fir tree not great tree. the translation musst be "oh fir tree, oh fir tree how green are your leafes. You not only green in summer time but also in winter when snow is falling, oh fir tree oh fir tree..."

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Queen Charlotte was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a Black branch of the Portuguese royal house.

we have the fir tree song here in greece as well the lyrics couldn't be translated exactly but the over-all message is the same ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that song is very widely sung in europe on christmas

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A Christmas tree farm you can see from space… yeah if you zoom enough you can. Like so many other things.

christimas trees are beautiful, but my dream is to have a large nativity scene