Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights ) are lights used for decorating Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide. Adat returns to when the Christmas tree is decorated with candles, which symbolizes Christ as the light of the world; this was brought by Christians to their home in early modern Germany.
The christmas trees on display in general and illuminated with electric lights became popular in the early 20th century. By the mid-20th century, it was customary to display electric lights along the road and in buildings; The Christmas decorations apart from the Christmas tree itself. In the United States, it became popular to decipher private homes with Christmas lights in a housing channel that began in the 1960s. By the end of the 20th century, the custom had also been adopted in other countries, including outside the Western world, especially in Japan and Hong Kong. Throughout the Christian world, Christmas lights continue to maintain their symbolism of Jesus as the light of the world.
In many countries, Christmas lights, as well as other Christmas ornaments, are traditionally established on or about the first day of Advent. In the Western Christian world, the traditional two days when the Christmas lights are removed are the Twelfth and Candlemas Eve, the last one that ends the Christmas season-Epiphany in some denominations. Allowing decorations outside Candlemas has historically been considered unprofitable.
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History
The Christmas tree was adopted in upper-class houses in 18th-century Germany, where it was sometimes decorated with candles, which at the time was a relatively expensive light source. The candle for the tree is attached with melted wax to a tree branch or a pin attached. Around 1890, candleholders were first used for Christmas candles. Between 1902 and 1914, small lanterns and glass balls to hold the candles began to be used. Early Christmas Christmas lights were introduced with electrification, beginning in the 1880s.
The illuminated Christmas tree became established in Great Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria, and through emigration spread to North America and Australia. In his journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the happy, 13-year-old daughter wrote, "After dinner... we went into the living room near the dining room.There were two large round tables where two trees were placed hanging with lamp and sugar decorations. All gifts are placed around the trees ". Until the availability of cheap electricity in the early 20th century, miniature candles generally (and in some cultures still are) used.
In the UK, electric-powered Christmas lights are generally known as fairy lights. In 1881, the Savoy Theater, London was the first building in the world to be completely illuminated by electricity. Sir Joseph Swan, the pioneer of incandescent light bulbs, supplied about 1,200 Swan incandescent lamps, and a year later, Savoy owner Richard D'Oyly Carte completed the main fairy with miniature lighting provided by Swan United Electric Lamp Company, for the opening of opera nights of Gilbert and Sullivan < Iolanthe on November 25, 1882. The term 'fairy lamp', describes 'the small colored light used in illumination' has already entered Britain: its use for a series of electric power Christmas lights have been common in Britain ever since.
The first light-lit Christmas Christmas tree is the creation of Edward H. Johnson, the inventor associate of Thomas Edison. When he became vice president of Edison Electric Light Company, the predecessor of Con Edison's electric utility today, he has a Christmas tree lightbulb specially made for him. She proudly showcased her Christmas tree, which was fitted with 80 white, blue and white-and-blue electric incandescent lights, on December 22, 1882 at her home on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The local newspaper ignored the news, viewing it as a publicity stunt. However, it was published by a Detroit newspaper reporter, and Johnson has been widely regarded as the Father of Electric Tree Christmas Lights. In 1900, businesses started stringing Christmas lights behind their windows. Christmas lights are too expensive for most people; thus, the electric Christmas lights did not become a substitute for the majority of candles until 1930.
In 1895, US President Grover Cleveland proudly sponsored the first electric Christmas tree in the White House. It is a large specimen, featuring over a hundred colorful lights. The first commercially produced Christmas tree lights were produced in a multiple string of eight sockets by General Electric Co. from Harrison, New Jersey. Each socket uses a two-candela miniature carbon-filament lamp.
From then on, the electrically illuminated Christmas tree, but only indoors, grew with increased enthusiasm in the United States and elsewhere. San Diego in 1904, Appleton, Wisconsin in 1909, and New York City in 1912 were the first recorded examples of the use of Christmas lights outside. McAdenville, North Carolina claimed to be the first in 1956. The Library of Congress praised the city for creating "a tradition of pine tree decoration with Christmas lights dated back to 1956 when McAdenville Men's Club conceived the idea of ​​decorating some trees around the McAdenville Community Center." The Rockefeller Center Christmas has had "lights" since 1931, but it did not have real electric lights until 1956. Furthermore, the Philadelphia Christmas Light Exhibition and the Disney Christmas Tree also began in 1956. Although General Electric sponsored the community lighting competition during the 1920s. It took until the mid-1950s to use such lamps for adoption by the average household.
For a time, the Christmas lights found their way to use in places other than the Christmas tree. Immediately, a series of lights adorned the mantle and door inside the house, and ran along the rafters, roof lines, and the fence of the porch of the house and business. Lately, many of the city's skyscrapers are adorned with long strings that are mostly vertical from a common theme, and are activated simultaneously in the Great Information ceremony.
In 1963, a Christmas light boycott was conducted in Greenville, North Carolina to protest the segregation that blacks were not employed by a business center in Greenville during the Christmas sales season. Known as Black Christmas (boycott) or "Christmas Sacrifice", it is an effective way to protest the cultural and fiscal segregation in the city with 33% of the black population. Light decorations in homes, on Christmas trees, or outdoors were not shown, and only six houses in the black community broke the boycott of Christmas.
In the mid-2000s, Carson Williams's home videos were widely distributed on the internet as viral videos. It garnered national attention in 2005 from The Today Show on NBC, Inside Edition and CBS Evening News and featured in Miller Television commercials. Williams turned her hobby into a commercial venture, and was tasked with upgrading her vision to a 250,000-scale light in Denver's shopping center, as well as exhibits in parks and zoos.
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Technology
The technology used in displaying Christmas lighting is very diverse, ranging from simple light strands, Christmas lights (aka Fairy lights ), to animated full-blown tablesaux, which involves animatronic illuminated complex and statues.
Christmas Lights (also called flashing lights, holiday lights, mini lights or fairy lamps ), which is a string of electric lights used to decorate homes, public buildings/commercials, and Christmas trees during the Christmas season is one of the best known forms of Christmas lighting. Christmas lights come in a dazzling set of colors and configurations. Small "dwarf" bulbs commonly known as fairy lamps are also called Italian lights in some parts of the US, such as Chicago.
The types of lights used in Christmas lighting also vary, reflecting the diversity of modern lighting technologies in general. Common types of lights are incandescent light bulbs and now light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which are increasingly being driven as more energy efficient. Less common is a set of fluorescent lamps. The set of fluorescent lamps was produced for a limited time by Sylvania in the mid-1940s.
Christmas Lights using incandescent lights are notorious for being difficult to troubleshoot and repair. In the 1950s and 1960s, series circuits connecting sets of light would be completely dark when one lightbulb failed. So in the quite recent past, mini-lights have come up with a shunt to allow a set to continue operating with a burning bulb. However, if there are some bad bulb or shunt failures, the string can still fail. There are two basic ways to solve this problem: replacement one by one with either known bulb, or by using a test lamp to find out where the voltage is interrupted. One example specially made for Christmas lights is LightKeeper Pro. For additional information, see the troubleshooting section of Holiday lighting technology articles.
When the first Christmas light manufacturer started using LEDs, the colors looked very dull and unattractive. Even white lights, which are usually single-LED chips, glow with yellowish colors that make them look cheap and unattractive.
Outdoor view
Public places
Showing Christmas lights in public places and public buildings is a popular part of the annual Christmas celebrations, and can be formed by companies or by local government. The display uses Christmas lights in many ways, including the towering sheeps of Christmas trees in the public square, the street trees and garden trees, adorn the lampposts and other such structures, decorate important buildings such as town hall and department stores , and illuminate popular attractions such as the Eiffel Tower and the Sydney Opera House. It is believed that the first open-air outdoor Christmas light hosted by Fredrick Nash and the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce in Altadena, California, on Santa Rosa Avenue, is called Christmas Tree Lane. The Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena has been continuously lit except during WW2 since 1920. The annual exhibits at Regent Street and Oxford Street, London, respectively from 1954 and 1959.
Nearby Areas
From the 1960s, beginning with channel housing in the US, it became increasingly common to describe the complete house (especially the roof) with weather-resistant Christmas lights. The Holiday Trail of Lights is a joint effort by cities in east Texas and northwest Louisiana that have its origins at the Festival of Lights and Christmas Festival at Natchitoches, beginning in 1927, making it one of the oldest light festivals in the United States. Fulton Street in Palo Alto, California, has the nickname "Christmas Tree Lane" because of the look of a lit Christmas tree on the side of the road.
A familiar hobby during the holiday season is driving or walking around the neighborhood at night to see the lights displayed in and around other homes. While some homes do not have lights, others may have a very ornate display that takes weeks to build. Some of the rare even made it to Extreme Christmas TV specials displayed on HGTV, at least one needed a generator and the other requires a separate power service to supply the required amount of power. In Australia and New Zealand, the Christmas light chain was quickly adopted as an effective way to provide ambient light for the veranda, where cold beer is often served on long summer evenings. Since the end of the 20th century, increasingly complicated Christmas lights have been featured, and driving around 8 and 10 at night. to see the lights have become a popular form of family entertainment. In some areas of Christmas lighting is even a fierce competition, with the city council offering an award for the best decorated home, in other areas it is seen as a cooperative effort, with residents based themselves on the street or in their neighborhood. The town of Lobethal, South Australia, in the Adelaide Hills, is renowned for its vast Christmas lights and many residents strive to showcase the best light in the city. Residents from the nearby town of Adelaide often drive to the city to see them.
More holidays
In the United States, lights have been produced for many other vacations. It may be a simple set in a typical holiday color, or a type with a plastic ornament that matches the lamp socket. Light sculptures are also produced in typical holiday icons.
Halloween is the most popular, with miniature light strings having a black-insulated cable and a semi-opaque orange ball. Then the set has some transparent purple lights (black representation, similar to blacklight), some even have transparent green, or translucent or semi-opaque tobacco blouses (probably representing mucus like in Ghostbusters, or goblin-like creatures or alien space). Two types of ice lamps are sold in Halloween: all orange, and a combination of purple and green are known as "mucus lamps".
Easter lights are often produced in pastel colors. It usually has white wires and connectors.
Red, white, and blue lights were produced for Independence Day, as well as US flags and other patriotic themed ornaments. The clean lights have been produced with the lights in the U.S. flag pattern. In 2006, some stores carry bets with lightweight optical fiber LEDs, looking similar to fireworks.
The above light string is sometimes used on Christmas trees, usually to add color variations to the lights in the tree.
Various types of terrace lighting without holiday themes are also made for the summer. These lights are often pure white, but most are ornaments, such as metal or bamboo lanterns, or plastic ornaments in the form of barbecue spices, flamingos and palm trees, or even beer. Some are made of decorative wire or mesh, in abstract shapes like dragonflies, often with "gem" glass or marbles. The light sculptures are also made in everything from the anchor-wire frogs to the artificial palm trees laid out in the rope lights.
In Pakistan, fairy lamps are often used to decorate in the Eid al-Fitr celebration at Chaand Raat, which takes place at the end of Ramadan. In India in Diwali also, houses, shops, and streets are decorated with fairy lampstand.
Environment, recycling, and security
Christmas lighting does lead to some extensive recycling issues. Every year, more than 20 million pounds of disposable holiday bulbs are sent to Shijiao, China (near Guangzhou), which has been referred to as "the world's capital to recycle Christmas lights". The area began importing lamps disposed of around 1990 in part because of its cheap labor and low environmental standards. By the end of 2009, many factories will only burn lights to melt the plastic and take copper wire, releasing toxic fumes into the local environment. A safer technique is then developed which involves cutting the lamp into a consistency like sand, mixing it with water and vibrating the porridge on the table causing different elements to separate, similar to the panning process for gold. Everything is recycled: copper, brass, plastic and glass.
More and more cities in the US, for example, are setting up alternatives and schemes that make sense to recycle Christmas lights, with cities arranging drop-off points to hand over old or disposable bulbs.
Installing holiday lights can also be a safety hazard when incorrectly connecting multiple pieces of light, repeatedly using the same extension cord, or using an unsafe ladder during the installation process.
Statue of light
Christmas light sculptures , also called motifs, used as Christmas decorations and for other holidays. Initially, these were large pieces of wireframe metal made for public displays, such as for municipalities to be placed on power lines, and shopping malls to be placed on lamp posts. Since the 1990s, it has also been made in small plastic home versions that can be hung on windows, or on doors or walls. Framed motifs can be switched on using mini or ropelight lights, and larger scaled motifs and sculptures can use C7 lamps.
Statues of light can be flat (most common) or three dimensional. Flat sculptures are motifs, and often on metal frames, but garland can also be attached to outdoor motifs. Indoor motifs often have colorful backing sheets, sometimes holographic. 3D sculptures include deer or wildebeest (even deer) in various positions, and with or without horns, often with motors to move the head up and down or sideways as if grazing. These and other 3D displays may be bare-framed, or covered with garland, looped and woven transparent or acrylic plastic cables, or natural or goldtone-painted vines. Snowflakes are a popular design for city performances, so as not to be confused with government support for religion, or so they can be abandoned throughout the winter.
Several venues created this huge exhibition during December, such as Callaway Gardens, Life University, and Lake Lanier Islands in the US state of Georgia. In eastern Tennessee, the cities of Chattanooga, Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, and Gatlinburg have statues of light throughout the winter. Gatlinburg also has a special one for Valentine's Day and St. Patrick, while Pigeon Forge put flowers on high lampposts for spring, and for winter has a steamer and a famous photo of the US Marines Fly Flag on Iwo Jima, in addition to the historic Old Mill town.
Some sculptures have a microcontroller that sequences a series of lights, so the object seems to move. It is used for things like falling snowflakes, Santa Claus waving, pigeons of peace flapping his wings, or rolling wheel wheels.
Example
See also
- Christmas tree
- Christmas around the world
- Luminaria
- Albert Sadacca
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External links
- Media related to Christmas lights on Wikimedia Commons
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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