Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video of outdoor Christmas lights on visit to houses in Scone village by Perth, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Christmas lights, also known as fairy lights, are lights used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide. The custom goes back to when Christmas trees were decorated with candles, which symbolized Christ being the light of the world. Christmas trees displayed publicly and illuminated with electric lights became popular in the early 20th century. Merry Christmas to you. The first known electrically illuminated Christmas tree was the creation of Edward H. Johnson, an associate of inventor Thomas Edison, on December 22, 1882 at his home on Fifth Avenue in New York City, USA. It has become increasingly common for Scots to decorate the outside of their house or cottage with weatherproof Christmas lights. A familiar pastime during the holiday season is to drive or walk around neighbourhoods in the evening to see the lights displayed on and around other homes. While some homes have no lights, others may have incredibly ornate displays which require weeks to construct. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. Christmas Day is on Sunday, 25 December, 2022. Christmas is a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus. The English term Christmas, meaning mass on Christ’s day, is of fairly recent origin. The earlier term Yule may have derived from the Germanic jōl or the Anglo Saxon geōl, which referred to the feast of the winter solstice. The corresponding terms in other languages, Navidad in Spanish, Natale in Italian, Noël in French, all probably denote nativity. The German word Weihnachten denotes hallowed night
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