What month is Halloween? Halloween is coming soon. Are you looking forward to it? The following editor will bring you the origin and legendary stories of Halloween. Let’s take a look.
Straits Metropolis Daily Minnan Edition Reporter Chen Leng Leng Lv Bo Tu
Halloween is also called All Saints Day. On November 1 of each year, it is a traditional Western festival; and October 31 on the eve of Halloween is the most lively moment of this festival. In Chinese, Halloween is often mistranslated as All Saints' Day.
October 31st of each year is "Halloween Night", which is the Ghost Festival in Western countries. People believe that the souls of the deceased will return to their former residence to search for living people on this night, hoping to be reborn. Legend has it that Druid had a grand festival. They believed that the god of death would summon the souls of the deceased that night, and the evil ghosts would be punished. So they lit a bonfire and watched the evil spirits.
More than two thousand years ago, Europe would set November 1 as "AllHallows'Day". "Hallow" means saints. It is said that since 500 BC, the Celts who lived in Ireland, Scotland and other places moved the festival forward for a day, that is, October 31.
They think that the day is the day when summer officially ends, that is, the day when the new year begins and the harsh winter begins. At that time, people believed that the souls of old friends would return to their former residence to find living creatures on this day to rebirth, and this was the only hope that people could rebirth after death.
. Living people are afraid that the souls of the dead will take life, so people extinguish the fire and candlelight on this day, making the souls of the dead unable to find the living, and dress themselves up as demons and monsters to scare away the souls of the dead. After that, they will rekindle the fire and candlelight and start a new year's life.
Halloween was originally a festival that praised autumn, just like May Day was a festival that praised spring. The ancient priests of Gaul, Britain and Ireland, Druid had a grand festival that praised autumn, which lasted for a full day from midnight on October 31 to November 1 the next day. They believed that on that night, their great god of death, Saman, summoned all the ghosts of the dead that year, and these evil ghosts would be punished by being entrusted to live as animals.
Of course, just thinking of such a ghostly gathering would be enough to make the simple-minded fools at that time frightened. So they lit a bonfire that soared into the sky and closely monitored the evil spirits. That's how the saying that there are witches and ghosts everywhere on Halloween Eve begins. To date, in some isolated areas of Europe, some people believe this is true.
The ancient Romans also had a festival on November 1st, which was used to pay tribute to their goddess Pomona. They roast nuts and apples in front of a blazing campfire. Our Halloween seems to be a mixture of the Roman festivals and the Druid festivals.
Halloween activities turned out to be very simple, and most of them were held in churches. But throughout Europe, people see Halloween Eve as a great opportunity to play, tell ghost stories and scare each other. So people no longer use this festival to praise autumn, but make it a festival of gods, witches and ghosts.
Source: Minnan.com
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