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Speaking of Christmas, people naturally think of Santa Claus with white beard, chubby, wearing a red (red and white, but mainly red) cotton-padded jacket, and the image is embarrassing!
In western fairy tales, Santa Claus rides a sleigh pulled by nine reindeer from house to house through the chimney every night on February 24th, 12. After the children fell asleep, he quietly put the presents in the socks beside the children's beds or under the Christmas tree by the fireplace.
Nowadays, many people wear red Christmas hats every Christmas. Santa Claus in every shopping center or building is also red.
But is the image of Santa Claus popular from the beginning?
Actually, it is not.
So why did it turn red later? Today we will talk about the story of Christmas and Santa Claus.
Christmas, also known as Christmas, is translated as "mass of Christ" (mass is a kind of worship ceremony of the church), which is a traditional festival in the west. Because the annual Gregorian calendar 65438+February 25th is the day when Christians commemorate the birth of Jesus, it is called "Christmas".
At first, Christmas was just a Christian holiday. Later, with the popularity of Christmas cards and the appearance of Santa Claus, people paid special attention to it and developed it into a national festival in western countries. It is the biggest festival of the year in western countries, equivalent to the Spring Festival in China.
The birth of Santa Claus originated from European folklore.
Generally speaking, Santa Claus refers to Nicholas, the bishop of Asia Minor in the 4th century. He is famous in Wan Li for his affability and generosity in helping the poor.
But the image of Santa Claus that we see now was created by the famous Swedish illustrator Hatton Sambu in 193 1 based on his friend Luo prentiss. It was from 193 1 that the image of Santa Claus began to be unified and fixed as the image of "an old man with a red robe and a white beard, a kind smile and an embarrassed expression" that we can see everywhere today.
193 1 years ago, the colors of Santa Claus in western countries were different, usually yellow and green (now westerners use red, green and white as Christmas colors). And Santa Claus at that time was not fat; On the contrary, Santa Claus who lived 193 1 years ago often looked gaunt and bony.
Yes, it was not until 193 1 that the image of Santa Claus changed from yellow or green and skinny to red and fat. Hatton Sambu is not the "mastermind" behind all these changes. Although he personally created the classic image of Santa Claus, he was only entrusted by people. The real mastermind is actually the world-famous Coca-Cola Company.
At that time, the Coca-Cola Company signed a contract with Hatton Sambu to create an image of Santa Claus drinking coke, and insisted that the color of Santa Claus's clothes must be bright Coca-Cola red. So Hatton Sambu took his good friend Luo Prentiss as the prototype and created a classic image of Santa Claus, wearing a red robe and a white beard, with a kind smile, taking off his red hat in one hand and holding a bottle of Coca-Cola in the other. Later, Coca-Cola made the image of Santa Claus into a poster, and wrote a famous slogan at the bottom of the poster: "ThePauseThatRefreshes".
In the next 30 years, Hatton Sambu continued to create hundreds of advertising paintings for the Coca-Cola Company. The image of red Santa Claus he designed also occupied the whole world with the large-scale sales of Coca-Cola, so red Santa Claus became the standard image of Santa Claus.
Today, Santa Claus has become a symbol of global culture.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Coca-Cola Company itself unified the image of Santa Claus. Therefore, Coca-Cola Company also registered the image of Santa Claus as its own trademark.
Yes, the Coca-Cola Company has created the classic image of Santa Claus, and in turn, the Coca-Cola Company has always benefited from it. However, the influence of Santa Claus goes far beyond this.
In the late 20th century, with the great influence of Santa Claus, Santa Claus's hometown-rovaniemi in Lapland, northern Finland, appeared as a tourist attraction. At present, there are only 50 "genuine Santas" who have been strictly examined, trained and certified in this Santa Claus village, and the appearance fee is as high as 200,000 yuan.
In this way, the influence of Santa Claus can be seen.
How to draw the Christmas Handbook Christmas Handbook is to make a bujo frame normally, and add some elements such as stripes, garlands, Christmas socks and snowflakes beside it. It is recommended to use stick figures or stickers, which is convenient and practical.
In addition, there are:
1, full-page hand-painted Christmas elements of the same type.
Balloons, Christmas stockings, Christmas trees, Christmas lights, gift boxes and other small objects are hand-painted in different colors, which are bright and gorgeous and can highlight the festive atmosphere of the festival. But this is suitable for people who can draw and have poor hand-drawing skills. Suggest pasting or collage, so as not to lose confidence in the account after failure, and it will not be worth the loss.
2. Element accumulation type.
Manuals who can't typeset can consider this method. They can collect some Christmas elements, hand-painted or collaged, and spread them page by page. Don't care too much about the position and direction, just spread the whole page, and you can also make a border around it with tape. The Christmas feeling of the festival will appear soon.
3, blank and simple style.
As shown in the figure below, the tape is orderly collaged into a Christmas tree according to a theme, which is simple and atmospheric and very appropriate. If you like painting, you can also set aside a separate page to draw patterns. Christmas garlands, Santa Claus and Christmas gift boxes are all acceptable, and there is no decoration beside them.
4, pure collage.
This method is the first choice for collage lovers. Collage all kinds of Christmas-style materials according to your own ideas and decorate them with all kinds of ropes. Three-dimensional and retro. The materials can be leaflets of various shopping malls and shops, gift wrapping paper, self-made bookmarks, hand-painted small illustrations and so on. This method is also suitable for gift box packaging, which has the fresh and refined beauty of Mori.
The picture book about Christmas is coming. This festival should be the most anticipated and favorite festival for children except the Spring Festival and Children's Day on June 1st. On this holy and quiet Christmas Eve, it is the happiest thing to sit at a warm desk with children and read with them. Bian Xiao edited some picture books on Christmas theme for parents' reference.
1, I love Christmas > > encyclopedia of Christmas knowledge
It is very suitable for children under three years old to read, and of course older babies like it.
This is one of the seven books in the series "I love" and "I love". It is a lovely, interesting, sweet and warm bilingual picture book brought by Popland to children.
Content introduction:
My name is Olivier, and I like Christmas. I like crepe paper, gold foil, ribbon and a winged Christmas deer. I like warm and interesting bilingual picture books best.
Christmas Fairy Tales *** 13
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2. Christmas for Jimmy the Scarecrow
Three Christmas trees
4. Hijacking Santa Claus,
5. Christmas masquerade ball
6. babs card
7. Little girl's Christmas
8. Every day is Christmas.
9. Commitment
10, shoemaker's guest
1 1, nutcracker
12, the story of Christmas children
13, the little match girl
14, jingle
A set of rare Christmas theme picture books
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A Christmas Fairy Tale is one of the master series of picture books. The book captures 12 foreign fairy tales about Christmas, some of which are created by world-renowned children's writers, and some are folk stories, including Christmas of Jimmy the Scarecrow, Three Christmas Trees, Santa Claus Hijacking, Christmas Masquerade, Ba Posca, A Little Girl's Christmas and Children's Song Jingle Bells. The text of the story is warm, the plot is moving, the style of painting and the text are skillfully integrated, and the childlike interest is elegant, creating a fairy tale world full of joy, beauty and dreams. This is a New Year gift book for young readers to taste the classical beauty and artistic beauty of the masters in the smart rhythm and the interactive association of pictures and texts.
15, Bunny Boli Series: Merry Christmas.
Bridget Weininger, a famous Austrian children's book writer, and Eve Taller, a famous French illustrator, collaborated on the series, 1 1. In this episode of Merry Christmas, it is said that Polly gave all the food stored at home to the animals in the forest, which made the whole family almost starve at Christmas, but Qi Xin, Qi Xin's family, worked together to overcome the difficulties. This incident made Polly and his family understand that sharing makes people happy!
16, Baba Dad Classic Series: Baba Dad and Christmas Gifts
This Baba Dad series is really the love of Coke, which has been maintained for several months.
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Baba's father, with his originality and sense of humor, has provided happiness for older children and children all over the world. The harmony, warmth and love of Baba's father's family will always warm the hearts of people all over the world.
This book introduces "Xixi Xixi, Bababian!" In China, it used to be a household name. The image of Baba's father was created by French cartoonist Dreus Taylor and his wife Annette Tisson. The first book in this series, The Birth of Dad, was published in 1970. As soon as the book came out, it won the praise of British literary critics and was widely praised at the Bologna Book Fair. 1975, the Federal Republic of Germany adapted the story of Baba's father into an animated film, which premiered in the United States in 198 1 and soon became popular all over the world.
17, the kingdom of Santa Claus
This is a very interesting story. Every time Coke sees Santa being weighed in the physical examination, it smiles happily and then rushes home to be weighed. .......
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On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus will travel around the world and send well-prepared gifts to good children. There is only one Santa Claus? That's not enough! There are many Santas living in the distant forest of the Northland!
However, what do they do on weekdays except Christmas? How do they know who is a good boy? What gifts will you receive this year? Don't worry, Santa Claus is ready!
18, Babe Bear Series-Meet the Christmas Bear
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Only two days after Thanksgiving, Christmas decorations and Christmas music can be seen everywhere in the bear kingdom.
"I think," Mother Bear said when Babe Bear's family came to the community shopping center, "Christmas comes earlier and earlier every year."
"yes! Isn't this great? " Papa bear said while admiring the Christmas decorations around him.
.......
19, Aite Bear and Senna Mouse: Christmas Tree in Snow.
I like this set of books cola very much. This one is my great love. It's very, very nice!
This set of books has 12 volumes, and this Christmas tree in the snow is one of the picture books about Christmas theme.
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The Story of Aite Bear and Seine Mouse is a series of picture books created by Belgian painter Gabriel Vincent during the period of 1980-2000. A tame bear and a spoiled mouse snuggled up to each other and lived together. The beauty of painting and story makes people cry. Suitable for children and adults.
This book is one of the series. Christmas is coming. Aite hopes to prepare a big Christmas party for Seine. However, Saina was fascinated by a small fir tree that was abandoned because of its ugliness. She hopes to spend Christmas with Art by the small fir tree in the snow. They persuaded each other and compromised with each other.
The Christmas snow scene in this book is really beautiful! The snow scene in the forest is magnificent, romantic and mysterious. The little fir tree that fascinated Saina is even more mysterious, reminiscent of Saina's life experience. .
20. Santa Claus
To tell you the truth, I don't like some sentences in this book. The word "damn" appeared in it many times. This Santa Claus is a complaining Santa Claus. For example, when he gets up in the morning, Santa Claus looks at the calendar and says "Damn Christmas is coming again", then "Damn Snow", "Damn Chimney" and "Damn Soot" ... but this is for Kate Green.
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The annual Christmas is coming, and Santa Claus's busiest day of the year is also here. The chubby Santa Claus is going to send a car full of presents to the children. Unfortunately, he suffered from heavy snow, heavy rain, lightning, fog and other bad weather, and had to climb up and down the chimney with difficulty. How will Santa spend his Christmas after a hard day?
Is "Father Santa" Raymond? One of Briggs' most outstanding picture books, won 1973 Kate? Greenway Award. Raymond. In this book, Briggs first tried to create in the form of multi-grid comics, with bright colors and flexible forms, creating a flowing picture effect. This picture book completely subverts the traditional image of Santa Claus and answers an interesting question: What if Santa Claus is just an ordinary old man? Its fun is a bit rude, but it is full of the warmth and joy of Christmas, which makes children feel different kindness and happiness at Christmas and every day that is not Christmas. & gt& gt Special recommendation: Let the baby play Christmas.
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