There is an interesting tale about hanging fabric Christmas decorations gifts socks beside the fireplace on Christmas day.
Once upon a time, there was a kind-hearted noble man whose wife died because of illness many years ago and left him and their three lovely daughters forever. In the later days, this noble man had quite a lot of attempts of making inventions, but regrettably all of his inventions ended in failure. Accompanied with such these failures, he also run out of all his money in the meantime. Therefore, he and his daughters had no choice but to move to a nearby farmhouse and spent the rest of lifetime there. Without the support of finance, they had no servants so his daughters had to do the cooking, sewing and cleaning by themselves.
Time is a knife that kill all things on earth. Many great social changes has witness their poor and hard life in the small farmhouse. As time went by, the daughters gradually grew up and reached the ages of marriage one after another. However, the noble man began to become more and more distressed because he had no enough money to prepare dowries for his three daughters.
One night, after washing clothes the three daughters hung their fabric Christmas decorations gifts socks beside the fireplace to make them dry. Saint Nicholas knew their father’s trouble and difficulty and came to their house that night when all of them had fallen asleep. From the window, Nicolas found out their worn-out fabric Christmas decorations gifts socks so he put three small bags of gold into their socks through the chimney.
Next morning when the daughters woke up, they were surprised to find that their socks were filled with golds which were enough for them to buy their dowries. Thus, the noble man could see their daughters got married and lived their happy lives with his own eyes.
Later on, this special tradition of hanging up the fabric Christmas decorations gifts socks beside the fireplaces is inherited and passed on by children all over the world.
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