18 Facts About Christmas lights

Christmas lights are lights often 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 lights trees were decorated with candles, which symbolized Christ being the light of the world.

The Christmas lights trees were brought by Christians into their homes in early modern Germany.

Christmas lights tree was adopted in upper-class homes in 18th-century Germany, where it was occasionally decorated with candles, which at the time was a comparatively expensive light source.

Early electric Christmas lights were introduced with electrification, beginning in the 1880s.

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Christmas lights were too expensive for the average person; as such, electric Christmas lights did not become the majority replacement for candles until 1930.

From that point on, electrically-illuminated Christmas lights trees grew with mounting enthusiasm in the US and elsewhere.

Soon, strings of Christmas lights adorned mantles and doorways inside homes, and ran along the rafters, roof lines, and porch railings of homes and businesses.

In 1963, a boycott of Christmas lights was done in Greenville, North Carolina to protest the segregation that kept blacks from being employed by downtown businesses in Greenville, during the Christmas sales season.

Christmas lights come in a dazzling array of configurations and colors.

The small "midget" bulbs commonly known as fairy lights are called Italian lights in some parts of the U S, such as Chicago.

Types of lamps used in Christmas lights lighting vary considerably, reflecting the diversity of modern lighting technology in general.

Christmas lights using incandescent bulbs are somewhat notorious for being difficult to troubleshoot and repair.

Since the late 20th century, increasingly elaborate Christmas lights have been displayed, and driving around between 8 and 10 p m to view the lights has become a popular form of family entertainment.

In some areas Christmas lights lighting becomes a fierce competition, with town councils offering awards for the best decorated house, in other areas it is seen as a co-operative effort, with residents priding themselves on their street or their neighbourhood.

Two types of icicle Christmas lights are sold at Halloween: all-orange, and a combination of purple and green known as "slime Christmas lights".

Red, white, and blue lights are produced for Independence Day, as well as U S flag and other patriotic-themed ornaments.

In Pakistan, fairy Christmas lights are often used to decorate in celebration of Eid ul-Fitr at Chaand Raat, which occurs at the end of Ramadan.