{"id":1252197,"date":"2019-10-17T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T15:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/origin-www.tasteofhome.com\/?p=1252197"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T15:38:19","slug":"the-real-reason-why-christmas-colors-are-green-and-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/article\/the-real-reason-why-christmas-colors-are-green-and-red\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason Why Christmas Colors Are Green and Red"},"content":{"rendered":"Every major holiday has its classic color scheme. Halloween decorations are generally orange and black. Valentine\u2019s Day is known for reds, whites, and pinks. And every year around Christmas, the world sparkles with red and green hues.\r\n\r\nSociety has long associated Christmas with this classic color combo. We\u2019ve accepted green and red as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/collection\/how-to-decorate-for-christmas\/\">the most festive way to decorate everything from homes<\/a> to cookies. Yet we do so without any inkling of doubt. Sure, red and green make a lovely pair, but how did they become the official colors of Christmas?\r\n<h3><strong>The History of This Classic Christmas Color Combo<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nIt actually started centuries ago, when the colors were used to commemorate a different holiday. Ancient Celtic peoples revered red- and green-colored holly plants for being evergreen and believed holly was meant to keep Earth beautiful during the dead of winter. So when they and other cultures celebrated the winter solstice, they decorated their homes with holly to bring protection and good luck to their families in the coming year.\r\n\r\nHere are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\/culture\/winter-solstice-surprising-facts\/\">9 surprising facts about the winter solstice<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe tradition of pairing red and green dates continued into the 14th century when the colors were used to paint medieval rood screens, which were partitions installed in churches to separate the congregation from the priest and the altar. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cam.ac.uk\/research\/news\/who-colour-coded-christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dr. Spike Bucklow<\/a>, a research scientist at the University of Cambridge, speculates that this physical boundary could have influenced Victorians to associate the colors with a different boundary, marking the end of the old year and the beginning of a new one at Christmas.\r\n<h3><strong>The Recent History of Red and Green for Christmas<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nDespite these meaningful religious traditions, there\u2019s one person we should thank for confirming red and green as Christmas colors: Haddon Sundblom. Never heard of him? He\u2019s the guy that Coca-Cola hired to draw a Santa Claus for the company\u2019s ads.\r\n\r\nUntil that point, artistic renditions of Santa were never consistent. He was usually a thin-looking guy, and his robes varied between blue, green, and red. Sundblom chose to make him fat and jolly, wearing red robes (and, interestingly enough, the same color as the Coke logo). As Arielle Eckstut, co-author of <em>Secret Language of Color<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/12\/20\/506215632\/how-red-and-green-became-the-colors-of-christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told <em>NPR<\/em><\/a>, that creative decision made all the difference. 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