This is the real/traditional Father Christmas 😃
what do you think about it? 😃🙂
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Santa Claus was originally a Bishop (Saint Nicholas) who was famous for his generosity. Over time, he evolved into the modern red dressed and bearded Santa Claus mainly due tue Europena and American influence. I've seen your image before and I found online the image of Saint Nicholas.
yes, but mine is better 😛
mines name is Father Christmas, and this ones is Sint Nicholas, mine comes from Sweden ore Finland (cant remember)
actually @Chantal- in dutch Sint Nicholas is Sint Nikolaas, in other words Sinterklaas. Thats a dutch tradition on 5 december, not on christmas, and Sinterklaas looks like the person on your photo, so i wonder if its right.
Wow, interesting topic. I've read a lot about it on Wikipedia and other sources. Coca-Cola has shaped the typical image of Santa Claus: fat, red-suited, and bearded. Before that, every culture had its own story about Santa Claus and its own traditions and representations. America also had its own representation of Santa Claus before Coca-Cola took over.
To be honest, I really associate Christmas with Coca-Cola advertising.
it might be, that next christmas my familly is gonna celebrate with my icture of Father Christmas 🙂
if my brothers and i later get kids, and they would get to this tradition, it would be nice 🙂
Wow, interesting topic. I've read a lot about it on Wikipedia and other sources. Coca-Cola has shaped the typical image of Santa Claus: fat, red-suited, and bearded. Before that, every culture had its own story about Santa Claus and its own traditions and representations. America also had its own representation of Santa Claus before Coca-Cola took over.
To be honest, I really associate Christmas with Coca-Cola advertising.
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nice 🙂
It's nice to have family traditions ☺️ I used to make an advent calendar with daily activities from Dec. 1st to Christmas Eve
@Chantal- provided the image of Saint Nicholas, but everybody has different perspective to represent him, because no one can go back in 4th century to capture him. 😃 Here is the painting of Saint Nicholas by Jaroslav Čermák.
Doesnt seem too similar to Santa Claus ..
Yes, Actual Santa Claus was not fat. Artist Haddon Sundblom was likely inspired by the work of cartoonist Thomas Nast, who in the 1890s depicted Santa with a big warm belly , to illustrate Santa as a jovial, rosy-cheeked Coke-drinker for a widely circulated magazine ad for Coca-Cola.
