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Humans have been wrapping gifts since the second century. |
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| In Korea, wrapping gifts may have started even earlier. Records such as the Samguk sagi, a 12th-century historical Korean text, note the use of a decorative cloth known as bojagi for wrapping gifts throughout the Three Kingdoms period from 57 BCE to 668 CE; most early bojagi artifacts, however, date to the later Joseon period, from 1392 to 1910. | |
| The Western world was much slower to embrace the practice. The proliferation of elaborately decorated Christmas cards in Victorian England led to early gift wrapping, and the tradition spread from there to the U.S., where the wrapping paper industry boomed. In 1917, while running their namesake Hallmark stationery store in Kansas City, Missouri, the Hall brothers ran out of traditional tissue paper during the Christmas season. Scrambling for a solution, they began selling decorative paper envelope liners as a replacement. The colorful sheets were a hit, and by 1919, the brothers began producing and selling their own printed wrapping paper for several occasions, transforming how we give gifts. | |
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Christmas was once banned in Massachusetts. | |||||||||
| When early English settlers arrived in Virginia in 1607, they brought with them a reverence for their European Christmas traditions. Though their celebrations didn't match those back home — the hardships of colonial life didn't allow much fanfare — the Virginia colonists still considered Christmas a sacred and restful day. In Massachusetts, however, following England's lead during the English Civil Wars, the Puritans outright banned Christmas in 1659. The extreme Protestants believed the holiday had no biblical basis and denounced its pagan traditions; the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony fined anyone caught celebrating the holiday five shillings. Though England lifted its ban with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Massachusetts enforced its law until 1681. Even after that, the holiday remained controversial in New England for decades. It wasn't until 1856 that Christmas officially became a public holiday in the Bay State. | |||||||||
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