Christmas lights are usually the most common decoration during Christmas. Whether you are in the living room, rooftop, office building, or city streets, you can see them all. We may not have thought about where Christmas lights came from or how they developed to today.
Traditionally, people use candles to light up Christmas trees. But we all know that candles are a huge fire hazard. To avoid a fire, people often put a bucket of water nearby.
In 1880, Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb. A few years later, one of his employees realized that these lights could be used to solve the fire problem caused by candles on Christmas trees. So he hung 80 red, white, and blue Christmas lights around a Christmas tree. Then, this idea became popular.
Of course, we not only use Christmas lights to decorate our trees; They are also used outdoors! There are many creative ways to use Christmas lights in your yard, from lighting up Christmas themed shapes such as Santa Claus, reindeer, snowmen, to adding lights to shrubs, trees, fences, and more.
Nowadays, Christmas lights have become a part of the Christmas tradition. Many communities have lighting and decoration competitions, and they spend Christmas together with friends and family every year. In Arizona, you can drive from one end of the state to the other along the trajectory of the lights.
Christmas lights have become an indispensable part of our lives!