Speaking of Santa Claus and Santa Claus's House, the most famous and authentic in the world is Rovaniemi in Lapland, located on the Arctic Circle.

Ye Chao felt that taking the Finnish National Railway from Helsinki to Rovaniemi was a very pleasant journey.

If you have a car, you can also check it in with the train, and the trains of the Finnish National Railways are as clean as the trains of Western European countries, and each compartment of the first-class carriage has its own bathing equipment.

Riding the train to Rovaniemi on the Arctic Circle at night, looking out the window at the mirror-like moon in the night, the coniferous forests passing by in the moonlight and the moonlight shining on the water, is an unforgettable memory of the trip to Finland.

When we arrived in Rovaniemi in the morning, it was not yet dawn. It's just that the blue sky in the morning light and the lake you will pass by while driving are as calm as water. The Arctic Circle is just outside the city.

And at this moment, we have reached the legendary magical place: Lapland. This is the home of snow and reindeer, and Santa Claus, as described in the song "Jingle Bells" when I was a child.

The air was as cold as you would expect, but it was fresh and pleasant, and it would have been perfect if you had taken a Finnish bath at this time. As soon as you get off the train, a great place to visit is Hotel Pohjanhovi, which is owned by Rantasipy, Finland's largest hotel group.

The sauna there is a large size, and there is a breakfast room just a few meters from the river bank. At this moment, in the last days of November, at ten o'clock in the morning, in Lapland on the Arctic Circle, the sky is not yet fully bright. The sun will shine on the earth for shorter and shorter periods, and it won't be long before the winter will be 20 hours long.

At this time, after washing in the traditional Finnish bath (Sauna), in the breakfast room with warm lighting, looking out the window at the first snow and the trees surrounded by golden leaves along the shore, you can be in a daze and think about nothing, it is really a rare quiet moment in your life.

Santa's home, deep in the jungle of Lapland, with reindeer and Laplanders. Adult reindeer have very striking horns. The Lapland dwellings are very conspicuous, with roofs that seem to slope all the way to the ground——— to prevent the heavy snow from crushing the houses in winter.

When Ye Chao went to see Santa Claus, he was in his cabin. The house was warm, the fire in the fireplace was blazing, Santa Claus was very kind, and everything was as expected. The signs of the men's and women's restrooms in the house are also very interesting, and while I was studying, I heard Santa Claus talking on the phone, which was Santa Claus calling a friend's child.

He's busy, receiving millions of letters a year from all over the world, and he's replying to the kids with the postmark "Santa Claus."

Not far from Santa's house is the sign of the Arctic Circle, and on the same side of the Arctic Circle is his office and post office.

As Christmas, he and his assistants were busy picking out gifts for visitors (or sending them directly to the recipient's email inbox if it was virtual). There are so many concerts and plays every day. Walk out of Santa's post office and you'll see a line on the ground marking the latitude of the Arctic Circle.

And at the end of this line: a slip of signposts, pointing in different directions, to the unknown distance...... Santa Claus is a combination of different legends and mysterious human types.

Legend has it that Santa Claus appeared in Scandinavia thousands of years ago. In Norse mythology, the god Odin, who is the god of wisdom, art, poetry, and war, rode his eight-legged horse mount to gallop to the ends of the earth in the cold winter season, punishing evil and promoting good, and distributing gifts.

At the same time, his son Thor wears red clothes and uses lightning as a weapon to fight the gods of ice and snow in the dark, and finally defeats the cold.

According to pagan legend, Santa Claus is a descendant of the god Odin. In central and northern Germany, Nicholas was known as "Santa Claus", in England as "Father Christmas", and later as "Santa Claus" by Dutch immigrants in the United States.

According to Dutch legend, Santa Sintirklass also came with an assistant named BlackPeter on a boat. He carries with him a large book that describes how all Dutch kids have behaved over the past year.

The children who behaved well gave them gifts, and the bad children were taken away by his assistant (the elk). Children want to know where Santa lives and when they will receive their gifts. The answer is usually that Santa Claus lives in the North Pole and his workshop produces Christmas gifts.

In 1927, Markus Rautio, the host of the children's program known to the children as "Uncle Markus", revealed for the first time that Santa Claus lived in Korvatunturi, Lapland.

Korvatunturi, located in the eastern border region of Finland, found an ear similar to a hare, in fact the ear of Santa Claus, which is used to listen to the wishes of children.

The Scandinavian legend tells the history of Santa Claus and his assistant elves.

At the end of the last century, different tales of Santa Claus in the Northern Hemisphere were compiled into a single version, with the white-bearded man handing out gifts to children before returning to Kornatunturi in Finnish Lapland.

The legend of Santa Claus comes from European folk legends, according to legend, Santa Claus is called St. Nicholas, who lived in the 4th century A.D. and was a kind, generous and very good man for children.

The Orthodox Church respects Nikolai as a miracle worker. Nikolai's family was very wealthy, his parents were also Catholics, Nikolai's parents died young, he donated all his property to the poor, joined the church himself, and served the society all his life.

Later, Nikolai became a priest and rose to the rank of bishop, and after his death, he was called a saint, a white-bearded old man in a red robe and a red hat. Nikolai has done a lot of charity in his life, he always likes to help the poor in secret, and slowly Santa Claus has become a name of affection for him.

Santa's reindeer is a reindeer that legend has it to pull a sleigh for Santa Claus, who sends gifts to children on Christmas Eve in a flying sleigh pulled by reindeer.

Santa Claus crawls into the house from the chimney and leaves Christmas presents for the children. The lead reindeer is called Rudolph and has a glowing red nose. There are 9 of them: Rudolph, Dash, Dancer, Flurry, Fox, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Lightning.

Santa Claus has formed an indissoluble bond with the reindeer.

When Ye Chao was a child, he was also very curious, and he really wanted to see the real reindeer, and wanted to see what kind of beautiful creature it was.

Now, he knows......

The reindeer are mainly found in the circumarctic region of the northern hemisphere, including Eurasia and northern North America and some large islands.