Putting up Christmas Lights on the Old Victorian

Putting up Christmas Lights on the Old Victorian ... Christmas lights
(also known as fairy lights) are lights used for decoration in
celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas
season including Advent and Christmastide. The custom goes back to when
Christmas trees were decorated with candles, which symbolized Christ
being the light of the world;[1] these were brought by Christians into
their homes in early modern Germany. Christmas trees displayed publicly
and illuminated with electric lights became popular in the early 20th
century. By the mid-20th century, it became customary to display strings
of electric lights as along streets and on buildings Christmas
decorations detached from the Christmas tree itself. In the United
States, it became popular to outline private homes with such Christmas
lights in tract housing beginning in the 1960s. By the late 20th
century, the custom had also been adopted in other nations, including
outside the Western world, notably in Japan and Hong Kong. Throughout
Christendom, Christmas lights continue to retain their symbolism of
Jesus as the light of the world