The wonders of Christmas celebrations

Every year we see people putting up Christmas trees all over the place. Regardless the race or religion, it will be put up just for the celebration of Christmas of just for the heck of it. All filled to the brim with baubles, lights, ribbons, candy, and other funny and nice and pretty and cute and even weird ornaments. They come in all colours and all shapes, height and width. Shopping malls compete to see whose decorations or trees for that matter, is the best and all that stuff.

But ever wonder where this idea came about? Well, it has to do with Jesus Christ's birthday but I can tell you it has nothing to do with the tree. Christmas had been commercialized to such an extent. So I checked in to Google and so far I've found a number of sites that explains in detail whether true or false how the (commercialised) Christmas tree came about:

http://www.christmasarchives.com/trees.html = a clear history of how trees came about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree = an insight into the kind of trees that can be used as Christmas trees (and you thought there was only 1 type of tree that the plastic ones were made to look like, jeez)

And then there's the mistletoe kissing thing, and then there is Christmas fruit cake and the Japanese version of Christmas cake, and then Rudolph the red nose raindeer, and then the carols and the like. Ever wonder why or of what significance they are for? Well check this out:

http://www.santas.net/favorites.htm = all you need to know about the traditions in general

http://christmas.howstuffworks.com/christmas.htm = a question and answer to all your queries on the whole Christmas thing. Worth a read for the cynical, curious or just-for-laughs you. However, not all the answers are well answered. So I searched for more, and I found this,

http://www.christmascarnivals.com/tradition/= thorough information!

And what about the Japanese version of Christmas? Well, after reading the following article on the below site I don't know whether to cry or laugh:

http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/christmas.html = everyone must read this!

Enjoy the read up. It's worth spending your time on the Internet just to look for these stuff. Cool!