Editing Christmas tree (section)

===Setting up and taking down===
[[File:Boy decorating Christmas tree.jpg|thumb|Adding decorations to tree]]
Both setting up and taking down a Christmas tree are associated with specific dates; liturgically, this is done through the [[hanging of the greens]] ceremony.<ref name="Dixon2013">{{cite book|last=Dixon|first=Sandy|title=Everlasting Light: A Resource for Advent Worship|date=30 October 2013|publisher=Chalice Press|language=en |isbn=978-0-8272-0837-7|page=5|quote=Many congregations decorate the sanctuary for the Advent season in a service called Hanging of the Greens.}}</ref> In many areas, it has become customary to set up one's Christmas tree on [[Advent Sunday]], the first day of the [[Advent]] season.<ref name="Michelin2012">{{cite book|last=Michelin|title=Germany Green Guide Michelin 2012–2013|quote=Advent – The four weeks before Christmas are celebrated by counting down the days with an advent calendar, hanging up Christmas decorations and lightning an additional candle every Sunday on the four-candle advent wreath.|date=10 October 2012|publisher=Michelin |isbn=978-2-06-718211-0|page=73}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Peter |last=Mazar |title=School Year, Church Year: Customs and Decorations for the Classroom |year=2000 |publisher=Liturgy Training Publications |isbn=978-1-56854-240-9 |page=161 }}</ref> Traditionally, however, Christmas trees were not brought in and decorated until the evening of [[Christmas Eve]] (24 December), the end of the Advent season and the start of the [[twelve days of Christmas|twelve days]] of [[Christmastide]].<ref name="Blainey2004">{{cite book |last1=Blainey |first1=Geoffrey |title=Black Kettle and Full Moon |date=2004 |publisher=Penguin Group Australia |isbn=978-1-74228-327-2 |language=en |quote=But towards the end of the nineteenth century, in the weatherboard halls of a few townships, a tree would annually be set up, usually on Christmas Eve.}}</ref> It is customary for Christians in many localities to remove their [[Christmas decorations]] on the last day of the twelve days of Christmastide that falls on 5 January—[[Twelfth Night (holiday)|Epiphany Eve]] (Twelfth Night),<ref name="Learning">{{Cite book |title=A Study Guide for William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" |publisher=[[Cengage Learning]] |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-4103-6134-9 |edition=2 |page=29 |language=en |quote=Twelfth Night saw people feasting and taking down Christmas decorations. The king cake is traditionally served in France and England on the Twelfth Night to commemorate the journey of the Magi to visit the Christ child.}}</ref> although those in other [[Christian state|Christian countries]] remove them on [[Candlemas]], the conclusion of the extended [[Epiphanytide|Christmas-Epiphany season]] (Epiphanytide).<ref name="Edworthy2008">{{Cite book |title=The Curious World of Christmas |last=Edworthy |first=Niall |date=7 October 2008 |publisher=[[Penguin Group]] |isbn=978-0-399-53457-7 |page=83 |language=en |quote=The time-honoured epoch for taking down Christmas decorations from Church and house in Candlemas Day, February 2nd. Terribly withered they are by that time. Candlemas in old times represented the end of the Christmas holidays, which, when "fine old leisure" reigned, were far longer than they are now.}}</ref><ref name="Roud2008">{{Cite book |title=The English Year |last=Roud |first=Steve |date=31 January 2008 |publisher=Penguin Books Limited |isbn=978-0-14-191927-0 |page=690 |language=en |quote=As indicated in Herrick's poem, quoted above, in the mid seventeenth century Christmas decorations were expected to stay in place until Candlemas (2 February), and this remained the norm until the nineteenth century.}}</ref> According to the first tradition, those who fail to remember to remove their Christmas decorations on Epiphany Eve must leave them untouched until Candlemas, the second opportunity to remove them; failure to observe this custom is considered inauspicious.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://metro.co.uk/2016/12/31/when-is-twelfth-night-and-what-does-it-mean-6353917/ |title=When is Twelfth Night and what does it mean? |last=Groome |first=Imogen |date=31 December 2016 |publisher=[[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]] |access-date=7 January 2017 |quote=Twelfth Night 2017 is on Thursday 5 January, which is when we're meant to put away our Christmas decorations or there'll be bad luck in the year ahead. If you miss the date, some believe it's necessary to keep decorations up until Candlemas on 2 February – or you'll definitely have a rubbish year.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/candlemas.shtml |title=Candlemas |work=BBC |access-date=9 April 2014 |quote=Any Christmas decorations not taken down by Twelfth Night (January 5th) should be left up until Candlemas Day and then taken down.}}</ref>