the decorated christmas tree can be traced back to the ancient romans who during their winter festival, decorated trees with small pieces of metal during saturnalia, a winter festival in honor of saturnus, the god of agriculture. an evergreen, the paradise tree, was decorated with apples as a symbol of the feast of adam and eve held on december 24th during the middle ages. christmas trees were sold in alsace in 1531. alsace was at that time a part of germany. today it is part of france. the trees were sold at local markets and set up in homes undecorated. in the ammerschweier in alsace, there was an ordinance that stated no person shall have for christmas more than one bush of more than eight shoe lengths.
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