It's Christmas time again.
Many shopping malls and shops are decorated with reindeer, Christmas trees, and golden bells, and the song "Jingle Bells" from nowhere on the street haunts your ears, and every step you take is telling you "Merry Christmas".
In the cold winter, the combination of red and green achieves a wonderful harmony and beauty, and the warm and lively atmosphere makes Christmas one of the best days of the winter.
Many people also have a small Christmas tree at home, and the children are even more prepared with stockings for gifts, looking forward to the surprise given by "Santa Claus" after waking up on christmas morning.
It's a beautiful story.
Legend has it that on the night of December 24, an old man with a red hat, a large white beard, a red cotton coat, and red boots on his feet would fly in the sky in a sleigh pulled by nine reindeer and enter the house from chimney to house.
Then sneak gifts in the socks at the head of a good kid's bed, or pile them under the Christmas tree by the fireplace. At other times of the year, he was busy making gifts and supervising the children's behavior.
In fact, there is no such thing as "Santa Claus". As we get older, we will find that "Santa Claus" does not exist, there are no reindeer, no sleighs.
The gifts given by the so-called "Santa Claus" are only gifts prepared by family and friends.
Therefore, many parents will have such doubts, since "Santa Claus" is fake, do you want to tell your children this fact from an early age?
In fact, there is another story about "Santa Claus".
In the fourth century AD, a child named Nicholas was born into a wealthy family in the city of Batala in Asia Minor. His parents were very ardent Catholics at Christmas, and unfortunately his parents died young.
When Nicholas grew up, he donated all his wealth to the poor and poor, and he himself became a monk, devoted himself to the church, and served society all his life.
Nicholas later became a priest and was promoted to bishop. He did a lot of charity work in his life, and he liked to help the poor in secret, Santa Claus was his later nickname, which came from the story of him secretly sending money and helping three girls.
Nicholas was revered as a saint after his death, a white-bearded old man in a red robe and a red hat. Every Christmas he came from the north in a deer-drawn sleigh, entered the homes through the chimneys, and hung Christmas presents in socks on the children's beds or in front of the stove.
This is "Santa Claus" – a beautiful synonym that carries the good wishes of people around the world about love, faith, and gratitude. And those stories that take place at Christmas are heartwarming, touching, and carry a kind of power. This power will invisibly infiltrate the child's heart and accompany the child's growth.
In fact, as early as September 21, 1987, the New York Sun (Penny) published an editorial entitled "Does Santa Claus Exist", which became a classic Christmas story in the United States and Canada because of the phrase "Yes, Virginia, thereisa Santa Claus is real" (Yes, Virginia, thereisa Santa Claus).
The cause was that Virginia O'Hanlon, an 8-year-old girl living on the west side of Upper Manhattan in New York, asked her father: Does Santa Claus really exist? Her father told her that if she wrote to the New York Sun to inquire, she would find out the truth. So Virginia wrote a text message and sent it to the newspaper asking if there really was Santa Claus.
The newspaper replied (excerpt):
Really, Virginia, Santa Claus is real. He is as necessary as love and kindness and loyalty, and you know that they are everywhere and that they give the noblest goodness and joy into your life. Oh, yes! If there were no Santa Claus, the world would be boring. I'm afraid it's going to be as boring as it would be without Virginia. No more child innocence, no more poetry, no more romance that makes our lives a little better. We will not have pleasure, except sensory and visual. The eternal light of childhood will no longer shine on the world.
In fact, not only "Santa Claus", in the process of children's growth, there will be a lot of fairy tales and myths and legends. In "Strange Story", the debate "should I tell children that fairy tales are fake" has exploded all over the Internet.
Some netizens said: Today's children are not easy to cheat, and many things have long been understood.
It is true that fairy tales are all fake, and children will naturally understand them when they grow up.
However, imagination is a kind of nature of children, and children's happiness lies in the ability to dream wildly.
How cruel it would be for a child if we told our children that fairy tales were fake.
As Yin Jianli said: Children are angels, only in the world of angels, Santa Claus really exists; when he grows up and becomes a mortal, Santa Claus disappears and never comes again.
But even if Santa Claus never comes again, the joy he once brought to the child is real, and this happiness may help the child become a better person, even if many years later, those memories are sweet.
Of course, there is no absolute right or wrong in all arguments.
For fairy tales, children need to be correctly guided, Santa Claus coming in from the chimney, Peter Pan who can fly, Elsa with magic, etc., these are the plots and characters set in movies and TV series, which must not be imitated in real life.
Fairy tales are fake, and it is true for children to learn those good qualities from fairy tales.
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