Which country is the busiest for Christmas?

Lapland is not only the hometown of Lapland and reindeer, but also the hometown of the world-famous Santa Claus. "A long time ago, an old Santa Claus traveled around the world and brought joy to children. One day, he came to the rabbi area near the Arctic Circle and was covered with snow. Fascinated by the beautiful scenery wrapped in silver, I decided to settle in Ershan here. Since then, Ear Mountain in Finland has become the place where Santa Claus lives ... "Whenever Christmas comes, enthusiastic Finns will tell this touching fairy tale to distant guests over and over again. Many children all over the world know that Santa Claus lives in Earl Hill in the Arctic Circle.

The legendary Santa Claus, wearing a soft red hat with drooping shoulders, red robes and boots, a head of silver hair and a curly white beard hanging down to his waist. Every Christmas night, he comes to every house in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer and takes out candy from a red cloth bag. Snacks, toys and other beautifully packaged gifts were distributed to children, and * * * had a happy holiday. In recent ten years, in order to broaden the tourism resources, many countries have been searching for roots and ancestors for Santa Claus and their hometown. Swedes once held a grand settlement ceremony for Santa Claus; The Norwegians intend to let Santa Claus live in their place; Icelanders think that Greenland is the most suitable place for Santa Claus to live in. Americans insist that Santa Claus used to live in Alaska; Even in Japan, I regard Hokkaido as the hometown of Santa Claus. 1July, 1996, world santa claus congress was held in Copenhagen. 150 Santas living in 18 countries were invited to attend this grand event, but there was no Santa Claus from Ershan. Originally, the Finns insisted that it was the Finns who first found their hometown for Santa Claus, and only their own country was the real hometown of Santa Claus, so they boycotted the conference and refused to get together with the "fake" Santa Claus.

On Christmas Eve (1995), the then UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali sent a letter to congratulate Santa Claus, saying that the Christmas spirit spread by Santa Claus among children all over the world, like the UN Charter, is full of peaceful wishes and good wishes. To the delight of Finns, the address of this letter was sent to rovaniemi, the capital of Rabi province in northern Finland, which is the only city in the world located in the Arctic Circle, and the famous Santa Claus Village was built here. Finns proudly believe that Gary's congratulatory letter means that even the United Nations recognizes Finland as the hometown of Santa Claus.

In order to further strengthen Finland's image as the hometown of Santa Claus and attract more domestic and foreign tourists, the Finnish Tourism Bureau and the Rabi provincial government jointly formulated the "Santa Claus Hometown Plan" with long-term strategic significance, and established a unique tourist attraction-Santa Claus Village (65438-0985) in rovaniemi. Subsequently, 65,438+00 tourist attractions named after Santa Claus were established in the whole Rabbi area, including ski resorts. Reindeer park and wildlife park. At present, the number of tourists visiting Rabbi area exceeds 6.5438+0 million every year. In Rabbi area, the World Gold Rush Competition and Golden Trout Fishing Competition are held every year in the name of Santa Claus. The activity of "Santa Claus's hometown tour" makes northern Finland a tourist hotspot all year round. In all the tourist attractions and commodities, you can see a famous trademark: a red boot with one toe up. Those are the boots that Santa Claus can't live without all the year round, and also the first letter of Finnish Santa Claus Joulupukki, an artistic capital letter.

Santa Claus also attracts a large number of passengers for Finnair. At present, Finnair has five flights to rovaniemi in the Arctic Circle every day. Increase to 10 flights per day during Christmas. Many people who are used to Christmas activities in their own countries bring their children and daughters to Santa's hometown for the holidays. Every Christmas Eve, 20,000 tourists from Britain, Greece, South Africa, Japan, Australia and other countries take chartered flight to Syracuse rovaniemi. When they took photos with Santa Claus with white beard and eyebrows in Santa Claus Village, they were all in high spirits. They were very excited and happy when they saw the winding snowfields in the Arctic Circle with their own eyes and enjoyed the little red candles lit on the snow in the "extreme night". If they are lucky enough to see the unpredictable northern lights, they will be more excited. Visitors can also visit Santa Claus's place in Ear Mountain by reindeer sleigh, dog sleigh or modern electric sleigh. When people get on the sleigh, the crisp sound of deer singing and a fairy-tale world of ice and snow appear in front of them, they can't help but feel the fresh and simple wind blowing from pure nature to enjoy exotic Christmas folk customs.

Every year from June to February in 5438, more than 50 million Christmas cards are sent by post offices all over Finland, ranking first in the world per capita. However, the busiest post office all year round is the Santa Claus Village post office in the Arctic Circle. There are always people coming and going here from morning till night, and they are very busy. The unique Santa Claus Village Post Office in the world is not only the only place for tourists to send letters to all parts of the world, but also the place that children yearn for most. Children who have no chance to visit Santa Claus in person in the Arctic Circle can pay tribute to Santa Claus by telephone and letter. Greet or ask for a gift. Santa Claus receives 60 1 700,000 letters from more than 50 countries and regions around the world every year. In the post office, there are more than a dozen "elves" wearing red and red hats all the year round to help Santa deal with these letters. Especially before Christmas, Santa Claus receives as many as 20 thousand letters every day. Faced with the avalanche of letters from all over the world, Santa Claus was overwhelmed and had to temporarily hire 60 assistants to help him open, read and reply to the letters. With the popularization of computer application technology, the work of Santa Claus post office has been computerized, and Santa Claus uses videophones and computers.

Santa Claus and his assistants input the names and addresses of all the children who send letters into the computer for storage, and the computer will reply to each child in eight different languages. In addition to holiday greetings, there is a short Christmas story in the letter, and the content of each letter is different. Although Santa Claus is very busy, he still hopes to receive more letters from children. If children in China are interested, they can also write to Santa Claus. Santa Claus is very trustworthy and will definitely write back to all the children who write letters. If you don't believe me, please ask China children to write to Santa Claus at the following address.

Santa Claus, post office

SF 96930 rovaniemi

Finland