children today would not at all recognize the st nick who brought gifts to european children hundreds of years ago except perhaps for his cascading white beard he made his rounds in full redandwhite bishop's robes complete with twin peaked miter and crooked crozier he was pulled by no fleet footed reindeer but coaxed in indolent donkey and he arrived not late on christmas eve but on his christian feast day december 6 the gifts he left beside the hearth were usually small fruit nuts hard candies wood and clay figurines
during the protestant reformation of the sixteenth century st nicholas was banished from most european countries replacing him were more secular figures who in general were not at center stage at that point in historythe dutch kept the st nicholas tradition alive as the protector of sailors st nicholas graced the prow of the first dutch ship that arrived in america and the first church built in new york city was named after him the dutch brought with them to the new world two christmas items that were quickly americanized
in sixteenth century holland children placed wooden shoes by the hearth the night of st nicholas's arrival the shoes were filled with straw a meal for the saint's gift laden donkey in return nicholas would insert a small treat into each clog in america the shoe was replaced with the stocking hung by the chimney
the dutch spelled st nicholas saint nikolass which in the new world became sinterklass later changed to santa claus
much of modern day santa claus lore including the reindeer drawn sleigh originated in america dr clement clarke moore composed the night before christmas in 1822 to read to his children on christmas eve the poem might have remained privately in the moore family if a friend had not mailed a copy of it (without authorial attribution) to a newspaper and became part of the santa legend
it was in america that santa put on weight the rosycheeked rolypoly santa is credited to the influential nineteenthcentury cartoonist thomas nast from 1863 until 1886 nast created a series of christmas drawings for harper's weekly these drawings executed over twenty years exhibit a gradual evolution in santa from the pudgy diminutive elflike creature of dr moore's immortal poem to the bearded potbellied lifesize bell ringer familiar on street corners across america today nast's cartoons also showed the world how santa spent his entire year constructing toys checking on children's behavior reading their requests for special gifts his images were incorporated into the santa lore
santa is known throughout the world in many different names such as
saint nikolaas (sinter klaas) from the dutch father christmas from the english kris kringle from the germans befana from the italians bobouschka from the russians (a grand motherly figure instead of a male)
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年圣诞日圣诞老骑白羊星座圣童手持圣诞树降间着世事变迁作家艺术家开始圣诞老描述成日熟悉着红装留白胡子形象时国度文化圣诞老解释德国传说扮成圣童坚果苹果放孩子鞋里双轮马车四处漫游观察行尤孩果表现会苹果坚果糖等诸奖品坏孩子鞭子家长灵机动纷纷采传说鼓励孩子听话超新年成全民节日圣诞老已成圣诞节受喜爱象征传统赶 着驯鹿拉着装满玩具礼物雪橇挨家挨户孩子送礼物快乐老精灵形象已深深留记忆中
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德国圣诞老带着做knecht ruprechtkrampuspelzebock助手肩背着装着礼物袋子手着根棍子孩子收礼物顽皮孩子教训棍子
意利圣诞老la befana 法国圣诞老father christmaspere noel 瑞士圣诞老christkindlchrist child斯勘纳维亚区圣诞julenisse juletomte 英国圣诞老法国样father christmas(圣诞父)形象圣诞老更庄严更清瘦北美圣诞老便着驯鹿拉雪橇孩子送礼物
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