The Legend of the Christmas socks
There was once a good-hearted aristocrats, his wife died of illness, throwing him and his three daughters. The nobles tried a lot of inventions have failed, and thus depleted the money, so they had to move to a farmhouse to live, and his daughters would have to vote in person cooking, sewing and cleaning.
Fast forward a few years, his daughter had married one after another to the age, the father has become even more frustrated because he has no money to buy his daughters a dowry. One night, the girls will wash the clothes, stockings hung on the fireplace before drying. Saint Nicholas knew, after their father's situation, on the night came in front of their house. He saw a man from the window have been asleep, but also took note of the girls in stockings. Immediately, he was taking from his pocket three small packets of gold from the chimney, down one by one vote, just out of the stockings at the girls inside. The next morning the girls woke up their stockings filled with gold, enough for them to buy a dowry. The nobility and therefore able to personally see his daughters get married, would then lead a happy life.
Later, children from around the world have inherited the tradition of hanging Christmas stockings. Children in some countries there are other similar customs, such as in France, the children will be placed in the fireplace and so on shoes
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