Does Santa Claus really exist? What is the story of Santa Claus?
When talking about Christmas, everyone will think of Santa Claus. So does Santa Claus really exist? What is the story of Santa Claus? It is the eleventh month of the lunar calendar and the chill of winter has already spread. Follow Shuimoxiansheng.com and take a look at the contents of the lunar calendar for November 2018.Does Santa Claus really exist?The prototype of Santa Claus was a real person in history. He was Saint Nicholas, a bishop who lived in the city of Mira (now in Turkey) in the 4th century AD . In the fourth century AD, Nicholas was born in Patara, Asia Minor. His family was wealthy and his parents were very devout Catholics. Unfortunately, his parents died early. When Nicholas grew up, he donated all his wealth to the poor and miserable people, became a monk, devoted himself to the church, and served the society all his life. Nicholas later became a priest and was promoted to bishop. He did a lot of charity work throughout his life, and he liked to help the poor secretly the most. Santa Claus became his later nickname, which came from the story of him secretly giving money to help three girls.After his death, Nicholas was revered as a saint. He was an old man with a white beard and a red robe and a red hat. Every Christmas he comes from the north on a sleigh pulled by deer, enters every house through the chimney, and puts Christmas gifts in socks and hangs them on children's bedsides or in front of the fireplace. What is the story of Santa Claus?Legend has it that on the night of December 24th, Santa Claus would fly in the sky on a sleigh pulled by nine reindeer, enter each house through the chimney, and then secretly put gifts in the socks at the bedside of good children or pile them under the Christmas tree next to the fireplace. The rest of the year he was busy making presents and supervising the children's behavior.Santa Claus is a combination of different legends and mysterious figures. In central and northern Germany, Nicholas is called "Santa Claus", in the UK he is called "Father Christmas", and by Dutch immigrants in the United States he was later called "Santa Claus". The Legend of Santa Claus: Once upon a time there was a kind-hearted nobleman whose wife died of illness, leaving him and his three daughters. The nobleman tried many inventions, but all failed, and he ran out of money, so they had to move to a farmhouse, and his daughters had to cook, sew and clean by themselves. A few years passed, and the daughters gradually reached the age of marriage, but the father became more depressed because he had no money to buy dowries for his daughters. One evening, after the daughters had finished washing their clothes, they hung their stockings in front of the fireplace to dry. Saint Nicholas came to their door that night after learning about their father's situation. He saw from the window that the whole family was asleep, and also noticed the girls' stockings. Then he took out three small bags of gold from his pocket and threw them down the chimney one by one, and they fell into the girls' stockings. The next morning, the daughters woke up to find their stockings full of gold, enough for them to buy their dowries. As a result, the nobleman was able to see his daughters get married, and they lived a happy life from then on. Later, children all over the world inherited the tradition of hanging Christmas stockings. Children in some countries have other similar customs. For example, in France, children put their shoes next to the fireplace. |
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