Casively - the myth of the "White Christmas"

Do you also know people who have had a few years of life and swear again every year that they have always experienced white Christmas

Sorry, but that's not true, just as little as everything used to be better. In the behavior of the people with each other and in relation to family cohesion, it was precisely because it was not better in the past - people hold together historically best when they are really dirty, so if it is complained about lack of cohesion, this is also a sign that we are actually quite well and puts the individual lifestyle in the foreground.

"White Christmas" In any case, there is a rather rare phenomenon on the normal German land area - it occurs in the lowlands every seven to ten years, which scientists have calculated from an average of all weather records.

So we were spoiled for the past few years, in 2012 all three Christmas holidays in Germany were completely white, and December overall very snowy, in 2010 new snow fell on Christmas Eve, which was then preserved in most places over the holidays.

Before that, it looked rather bleak for a long time, but the old people are right when they talk about “snowy winter” - between 1939 and 1974 there were so many cold winter with plenty of snow that scientists already saw an ice age. But Christmas mostly looked green or gray during this time, the last time with safe white Christmas was in the middle modern period, in the 17th to 18th centuries, in the baroque, and this intermediate cold phase is also known as the "small ice age" .

As is known, we are more likely to be in the opposite development, our spring begins one or two weeks earlier, and the plants keep their leaves longer than in the past century; The vegetation year for the plants has become a good bit longer.

You could inquire when the regular weather recording started in your hometown (it started in 1781, in every place in another year) and how many Christmas there were snow, then you could calculate your own statistics.

Calculated with the average of the figures just mentioned, every 8.5 years since 1800, there are 25 white Christmas - in a period that includes the life of generations. In other words: A person has the chance of "white Christmas" around 11 times when he turns 100.

So the "white Christmas" is usually only a nice dream - unless you go to the mountains, there is the likelihood of "white Christmas", depending on the altitude, 30 to 60 percent, near the summit even over 90 percent ...

The "White Christmas" - an invention of imaginative, high -altitude business people

Near these peaks, perhaps in realistic thin air, apparently a postcard producer has been, which scientists have now identified as the actual creator of the "White Christmas".

This height trip must have taken place around 1860. The Christmas cards Before showed Santa Clauses who were loaded with gifts over unexpectated roofs, or a happy group of people who indulged in their Christmas drink in a magnificent grape decoration, there was nothing with snow, and not by the way with Christmas tree.

The Christmas tree was far from being in the normal German budget in 1860. Rather, he was in the middle of his triumphal march - until the middle of the 19th century in some noble households (by church people) fashion and then migrated to the lowest -level households, since even then the rich would be happy to mask the prominent.

The "simple people" could not afford a Christmas tree at that time, but stood a few two -way in the room; In order to make the new decoration trend accessible to them, fir and spruce forests were created in masses from the second half of the 19th century.

A prominent decoration trend is therefore to blame for the fact that Germany is no longer full of beautiful, healthy mixed forests, but rather full of conifers in some regions. And the forest death of the 1980s might not have existed without this fashion - conifers make the ground angry.

In 1863 the first postcard with a winter snow landscape is said to have appeared , and from this time other postcard producers were happy to accept the sales hit, the postcards made a striking change: the Santa Clauses were now sitting on snowy roofs, with white-cut village idylls in the background, over which the full moon was emblazoned.

The new, romantic snow landscapes on the postcard were very fashionable, also because winter suddenly no longer looked threatening, but light and glittering, peaceful and tidy - until even snow -covered landscapes were admired on Australian Christmas cards, even though they celebrated Christmas in midsummer.

You can buy “white Christmas”

Because that was the case, you can buy the "white Christmas" on the Internet today.

Postcards are a very lovable old tradition, and that is why postcards have always been collected, today they are sold and exchanged in numerous internet forums around the world.

"White Christmas" on the postcard you get z. B. at MAU-AK, postcards from all over the world, at www.mau-ak.de .

When you enter "Snow" as a search term there, dozens of beautifully snowy postcards appear, from the elephant family as snow arts in Davos to the snow avalanche in Garmischer Höllentalklamm and the greeting card with lady and snowman to the Italian artist card "snowballs", all for a century old.

In the AK-Pool of the Postcard Pool , reaching at www.akpool.de , you can search for your "white Christmas" from 1,439 postcards, including numerous offers for 1,- Euro.

What you find there is sometimes really unique and sometimes really nice, if you contribute imagination and a picture frame, you can put together a very extraordinary "white Christmas".

The story of the "White Christmas" carries the magic of new ideas

The idea of ​​buying your own "white Christmas" by postcard can be expanded, gives a suggestion for "family art" that can become a tradition.

If you have dealt with the beautiful to bizarre postcards that transport the myth "White Christmas", older people have certainly become aware of (and maybe younger ones for the first time) what an lovable piece of everyday art embodies the postcard.

If this leads to the fact that you replace the SMS from vacation again with a postcard, this is gratifying - in the truest sense of the word, in the case of corresponding surveys, it always comes out that people are more happy about a postcard from vacation than via a digital message and that they feel valued to a greater extent by a postcard.

The postcard gives even more - the second opportunity to which many postcards are sent are the festivals at the end of the year, whether the Christmas card or New Year's greeting. What is sent here is often a small work of art, and many of these small works of art can combine them into a large work of art. Real family art that changes a little every year.

ways to summarize decorative greeting cards into a total work of art : punching and tying with silk bands to a chain, putting together on a large panel into a patchwork image, gluing in a window with trigger without trigger, gluing, mosaic-like or like a frame along the edge ...