In Germany, Christmas is not just December 25th, but a one-month holiday. If you include the New Year's Day holiday, it will be a super holiday that lasts for up to 6 weeks.

Before the medieval papal state, the Germans' Christmas holiday began six weeks before Christmas. When Pope St. Gregory I came to power, he announced that the six-week pre-Christmas holiday would be reduced to four weeks, and Germany also became four weeks without exception.

Of course, 4 weeks in advance is just an official or church rule. In real life, the unique Christmas market in Germany actually opens 5 weeks before Christmas, which is starting on Mondays between November 20 and 26 each year.

The reason for choosing Monday to start is that the Sunday between November 19 and 25 each year is an important day for German Protestants and Catholics to commemorate the deceased. It is called the totensonntag or the eternal Sunday (ewigkeitssonntag). On Monday after the commemoration of the deceased, the Christmas market (weihnachtsmarkt) officially opened, and the Christmas season (weihnachtszeit) in Germany officially began.

The Christmas market starts in the first five weeks, and the official Christmas holiday starts in the first four weeks, from the Sundays of the first four weeks to the last Sunday before Christmas. Germans are used to collectively referring to this period as Christmas advent.

During Christmas, in order to reflect the joyful festive atmosphere and the sense of ritual that the Germans are approaching the most important day of the year, every German family will light magnified candles in the adventskranz (red, white, and black) (you can do whatever you want, as long as you don’t mix together).

At this time, Joey discovered that unlike the first time when Christmas came in his previous life, there were 24 candles in the garland of the arrival of the nineteenth century, representing every day from December 1st to 24th, lit one every day.

Instead of putting 4 large candles in the garland of arrival like in my previous life, each candle represents a Sunday, and a candle is lit every Sunday.

The second difference is that the Arrival Wreath is carved from beech wood, rather than woven from the branches of fir trees.

Of course, Joey didn't know that these two changes in his previous life were caused by the hardships and pains left on the German people by a four-year war. In the dilemma of not being able to afford margarine, the hard-working Germans lit 24 candles and used a beech wood board to become waste that they dare not wish for. In the end, they were just helpless changes in difficulties.

In any case, in Germany, as long as you see 24 or 4 candles lit at the same time, it means Christmas is really coming.

Unlike Joey's third Christmas in his previous life, the Christmas in the 19th century has a more religious sense of ritual. Every Sunday during this period, whenever a candle is lit, Crown Prince Frederick's family gathered together to sing the Christmas song, which is not as casual as Joey's previous life.

Today, Joey represents the whole family and lit the German handmade candle for the arrival of the garland. It is actually a high-end brand of the German candle industry that he is familiar with in his previous life. Think about the various dining, bathing, aromatherapy and other eika candles in his own restaurant, in his mother and sister's bedroom, and in the bathroom of the uterus. Joey is sure that this German time-honored brand that has been in operation for more than 50 years can be successfully operated for another 150 years.

The Germans are probably the most loved candles in this world.

In addition to lighting candles in the Advent wreath, there is another thing that German children like very much, called the Adventskalender. This is a calendar that simulates a wall of a house. The calendar is marked with 25 Roman numerals, representing the days from December 1 to December 25, of which December 1 to 24 are 24 small doors that can be opened.

Behind each small door is a piece of chocolate, which has candle shapes, Christmas bell shapes, etc. Each piece of chocolate shape is related to holiday items during Christmas.

Children open a door every day to enjoy the sweetness of chocolate, while also means that Christmas is getting closer.

According to Frederick's tradition, the children have an advent calendar made by Crown Frederick himself, starting with Princess Victoria, one for each of Joey, Princess Alice and Princess Fiodora.

In the past days when Crown Frederick was unemployed at home, the Christmas advent calendar was made by the Crown himself. But what Joey didn't expect was that this year his father was standing at the center of power again. In such a busy work, he actually made an advent calendar for the underage children in the prince's womb. This is the fourth difference that Joey felt.

But Joey loved this fourth difference. He took the advent calendar he made from his father, which was really happier than he bought it from the store.

In addition to the advent calendar above, children also particularly like a small object called "R?ucherm?nnchen". This is a wooden villain that can be divided into two pieces. A lit incense is placed in the middle. After closing the villain, the misty blue smoke will be spit out from the wooden villain's mouth. The wooden villain can be made into any image that children like.

William and Heinrich told Joey that in the gift under the Christmas tree in the Prince's Palace, two fragrant villains were specially prepared for Joey, one was the Prussian Army and the other was the Prussian Navy, and the second sister, Princess Charlotte, told Joey that she had a Junker nobleman, and everyone hoped that Joey could get them in the game on Christmas night.

We must mention Christmas markets that are only available to Germans for at least 600 years of history (of course, with the continuous immigration of Germans, many European countries have also appeared in Christmas markets, but these Christmas markets are also called German markets).

The closest Christmas market to the Prince's Palace is the Christmas market in the Gendarmenmarkt. According to German tradition, there must be three iconic buildings at the Christmas market: a carousel (karussell), a Ferris wheel (riesenrad), and a Christmas tree (weihnachtsbaum).

A large wooden Christmas tree with a height of five floors will definitely be decorated in the center of the market. There will be many pictures with the theme of Bible stories hanging on the trees, such as the birth of Jesus, the angel news, etc. There is a windmill rotating on the top of the Christmas tree. This Christmas tree is the most important landmark of the Christmas market.

The carousel is a paradise for children, and the Ferris wheel is a paradise for young couples. On the day when Christmas is coming, Crown Prince Frederick's family had a lot of fun in the Christmas market in the Royal Square.

In addition to having fun, there are many Christmas items that need to be purchased. The first one listed on the Crown Prince Frederick's purchase list is the Christmas star (weihnachtssterne). The Christmas star in the German population is not a star model, but a plant. The British like to call it poinsettia, while the German like to call it Christmas star.

This is a leafy plant. In early December, there are only one or two red leaves on its top. As Christmas approaches, the red leaves of the leafy plant will become more and more. When Christmas is on, all its leaves will turn red, symbolizing that the Germans will be prosperous next year.

The second place in the purchase list is all kinds of Christmas gifts, and the book (bücher) is always the first Christmas gift. The Germans have an interesting statistics. Among the German Christmas gifts, the book is always the first gift, with a proportion of up to 51% of all gifts.

The second is naturally toys. The best gift for your children, relatives, friends and children is toys, and then pocket money with a face value of up to 10 marks.

Of course, perfumes and other cosmetics, as well as jewelry that women at home like, are also necessary purchasing products.

Finally, there are naturally all kinds of practical Christmas gifts, such as pots, bowls, pots, or a box of chocolate, a bottle of red wine, or even molds for baking biscuits. Gifts are not about their value, but about the wishes of the gift givers.

In addition to having fun and purchasing gifts, the most important thing in the Christmas market is to eat and drink. Because of this, during the advent of Christmas, whenever Joey shouted to go to the Royal Plaza, there were many followers.

Food at the Christmas market... all kinds of roasted, boiled sausages (wurst), served with tomato sauce and French yellow mustard (senf), and don't talk much about the taste. If you like meat, you can also buy large pieces of meat chop (kotellet) and roasted suckling pig (sauerkraut). If you think you're a little greasy, then add sauerkraut.

Adults over 16 years old will pour themselves a glass of white wine or red wine, mix various spices and honey into hot red wine (glühwein), or groc and punsch (both a hot drink based on rum), and children will drink a hot drink (kinderpunsch) mixed with honey, juice and spices (kinderpunsch), while ladies and ladies like the most is egg sweet wine (eierpunsch).

In the cold December in Germany, eating a bite of meat and drinking a sip of hot wine/hot drink is so beautiful.

Eat meat and drink good wine, which does not mean the end of the Christmas market's food trip. Roasted chestnuts (ger?stete                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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Chapter completed!