Santa Claus Village at Christmas

The red-robed black-white-bearded Santa Claus is driving an Meng-Meng reindeer in a pine bush ... After nearly two months of "flying", a postcard was sent to Shanghai's home from Rovaniemi in Finland for two days. Before going to Rovaniemi, it was only four unrelated characters, and after that, it became a fairy-tale world-like memory, a place that seemed to be Christmas every day.

Every traveler who has travelled all the way to Rovaniemi is heading to the same place, and that is the village of old people. Yes, the legendary Santa Claus lives in this village and works here all year round.

In 1927, the Finnish radio presenter, Markus Rautio, said Santa's studio was found in Finland near the Arctic Korvatunturi. Since then, people around the world have begun to accept that Santa Claus lives in Finland. However, Korvatunturi is close to the Finnish-Russian border, far from the state Government of Rovaniemi. The establishment of Rovaniemi as the Santa Claus Village took decades, in fact a commercial decision.

In the 1957, The New York Times introduced "The Wilderness of Northern Europe", which mentions that in Finland's summer, the sun never goes downhill. Subsequently, in order to attract more tourists, the Finnish Tourism Board decided in 1984 to make Rovaniemi and its surrounding areas as "Santa Claus Village."

The village is made up of a group of wooden huts, including restaurants, post offices, shopping malls, reindeer gardens and, of course, the most important Santa office and residence. Now in Rovaniemi, Santa Claus is more famous than the mayor, his office is full of celebrities around the world and his photo, printed with his picture postcard everywhere.

Santa Claus Village is not big, has been fully industrialized. The post office may also be one of the busiest post offices in the world, Santa Claus receives more than 700,000 letters a year from more than 150 countries around the world, and Santa Claus receives about 32000 letters a day before Christmas. May be too busy, if you want to get a letter from Santa Claus, you must make an appointment and pay the fee. There are two mailboxes here, one is sent immediately, one is to send out before Christmas, to send himself a Santa Claus post office sent a Christmas card is very special. At Christmas time, Santa Claus will also drive the reindeer drag sled, the gift to the children's home. His ceremony is scheduled for December 23 every year. Every year, Finnish television stations broadcast the festival to the world.

Although the certified Santa Claus has 50 or so, but they do not break the child's mind "Santa Claus only One" impression.