圣诞老人的由来英语

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圣诞老人的由来英语

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圣诞老人的由来英语

"American Origins: (As nt to me by Brian Dodd)Quote from

ENCARTA 95

The American version of the Santa Claus figure received its

inspiration and its name from the Dutch legend of Sinter Klaas,

brought by ttlers to New York in the 17th century。

As early as 1773 the name appeared in the American press

as "St. A Claus,"

but it was the popular author Washington Irving who gave

Americans their first detailed information about the Dutch

version of Saint Nicholas. In his History of New York, published

in 1809 under the pudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, Irving

described the arrival of the saint on horback (unaccompanied

by Black Peter) each Eve of Saint Nicholas。

This Dutch-American Saint Nick achieved his fully

Americanized form in 1823 in the poem A Visit From Saint

Nicholas more commonly known as The Night Before Christmas

by writer Clement Clarke Moore. Moore included such details as

the names of the reindeer; Santa Claus's laughs, winks, and nods;

and the method by which Saint Nicholas, referred to as an elf,

returns up the chimney. (Moore's phra "lays his finger aside of

his no" was drawn directly from Irving's 1809 description。)

The American image of Santa Claus was further elaborated

by illustrator Thomas Nast, who depicted a rotund Santa for

Christmas issues of Harper's magazine from the 1860s to the

1880s. Nast added such details as Santa's workshop at the North

Pole and Santa's list of the good and bad children of the world.

A human-sized version of Santa Claus, rather than the elf of

Moore's poem, was depicted in a ries of illustrations for Coca-Cola advertiments introduced in 1931 that introduced and

made the red Santa Suits an icon. In modern versions of the Santa

Claus legend, only his toy-shop workers are elves. Rudolph, the

ninth reindeer, with a red and shiny no, was invented in 1939

by an advertising writer for the Montgomery Ward Company.

In looking for the historical roots of Santa Claus, one must

go very deep in the past. One discovers that Santa Claus as we

know him is a combination of many different legends and

mythical creatures.

The basis for the Christian-era Santa Claus is Bishop Nicholas

of Smyrna (Izmir), in what is now Turkey. Nicholas lived in the 4th

century A.D. He was very rich, generous, and loving toward

children. Often he gave joy to poor children by throwing gifts in

through their windows.

The Orthodox Church later raid St. Nicholas, miracle worker,

to a position of great esteem. It was in his honor that Russia's

oldest church, for example, was built. For its part, the Roman

Catholic Church honored Nicholas as one who helped children

and the poor. St. Nicholas became the patron saint of children

and afarers. His name day is December 6th.

In the Protestant areas of central and northern Germany, St.

Nicholas later became known as der Weinachtsmann. In England

he came to be called Father Christmas. St. Nicholas made his way

to the United States with Dutch immigrants, and began to be

referred to as Santa Claus.

In North American poetry and illustrations, Santa Claus, in

his white beard, red jacket and pompom-topped cap, would sally

forth on the night before Christmas in his sleigh, pulled by eight

reindeer, and climb down chimneys to leave his gifts in stockings

children t out on the fireplace's mantelpiece.

Children naturally wanted to know where Santa Claus

actually came from. Where did he live when he wasn't delivering

prents? Tho questions gave ri to the legend that Santa

Claus lived at the North Pole, where his Christmas-gift workshop

was also located.

In 1925, since grazing reindeer would not be possible at the

North Pole, newspapers revealed that Santa Claus in fact lived in

Finnish Lapland. "Uncle Markus", Markus Rautio, who compared

the popular "Children's hour" on Finnish public radio, revealed

the great cret for the first time in 1927: Santa Claus lives on

Lapland's Korvatunturi - "Ear Fell"

The fell, which is situated directly on Finland's eastern frontier,

somewhat rembles a hare's ears - which are in fact Santa Claus's

ears, with which he listens to hear if the world's children are being

nice. Santa has the assistance of a busy group of elves, who have

quite their own history in Scandinanvian legend.

Over the centuries, customs from different parts of the

Northern Hemisphere thus came together and created the whole

world's Santa Claus - the ageless, timeless, deathless white-bearded and red suited man who gives out gifts on Christmas

and always returns to Korvatunturi in Finnish Lapland.

Since the 1950s, Santa has happily sojourned at Napapiiri,

near Rovaniemi, at times other than Christmas, to meet children

and the young at heart. By 1985 his visits to Napapiiri had

become so regular that he established his own Santa Claus Office

there. He comes there every day of the year to hear what children

want for Christmas and to talk with children who have arrived

from around the world. Santa Claus Village is also the location of

Santa's main Post Office, which receives children's letters from the

four corners of the world.