The word "Halloween" originated from the Catholic Church. November 1st of each year is the Catholic festival that celebrates All Saints All Hallows Day or All Saint's Day. On the eve of Halloween of , the eve of October 31st of each year is the annual harvest festival of the Celtic people, symbolizing the end of the year and the beginning of the new year.
What is Halloween for Westerners? To celebrate the coming of the festival, children will dress themselves up as strange and knock on the door and ask for candy in each household. join hands to change candy and eat . If you don’t give it, you will be troublesome. Do you like such a lively festival?
Halloween customs
. Pumpkin Lantern
Legend has it that there is a man named Jack who is very stingy, so he cannot enter heaven after his death. And because he makes fun of the devil, he cannot enter hell, so he can only wander around with his lantern until the day of Judgment. So Jack and the Pumpkin Lantern became symbols of the cursed wandering soul. pumpkin lantern is also called " Jack Lantern ", and this custom originated from Irish .
. Make trouble if you don’t give candy
Halloween is a festival full of mystery in the eyes of children. As night fell, the children couldn't wait to put on colorful makeup clothes, put on strange masks, and lifted up a "Jack Lantern" to run out to play. The "Jack Lantern" looks very cute. Groups of children dressed as demons and monsters ran to the neighbor's door with "Jack Lanterns" in hand, shouting intimidatingly: "Would you like to make a prank or treat", "Will you like to give money or eat
". If adults don't treat them with candy and change, the naughty child will say, "Okay, if you don't treat them, I'll tease you." Sometimes they apply soap on other people's door handles, and sometimes they color other people's cats. These little pranks often make adults laugh and cry, so the children on Halloween Eve are always stuffed with stomachs and pockets.
3. The Human Ghost Carnival
New York City also held a parade on Halloween night, allowing a group of vampires, zombies, witches , Frankenstein and others to appear together. Citizens are also welcome to visit. The attendees are not limited to age, gender, regardless of class or nationality. Even if you are a coward, you can join them and have a lively Human Ghost Carnival.
In fact, these ghosts are all dressed up by humans, so they are not scary. On the contrary, some small ghost faces are even more cute, making people stay in it, just like attending a large-scale costume party.
Halloween themes are ghosts, scary people, and things related to death, magic, and monsters.
Things that are usually related to Halloween include ghosts, ghouls, witches, bats, , black cats, owls, elves, zombies, skeletons, and demons, as well as fictional characters such as vampires and Frankenstein.
So it is not an exaggeration to call Halloween a "Ghost Festival".
Do you like to celebrate such festivals?
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