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The origin of Halloween

Halloween is actually a festival to praise autumn, just as May Day is to praise spring. Druids, priests of ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland, had a grand festival to praise autumn, which lasted from midnight on1October 3 1 day to the next day. They believe that on that night, their great death shamanism summoned all the ghosts of those who died that year, and these evil spirits would be punished for being born as animals. Of course, as long as the thought of this ghostly party was enough to make those simple-minded fools tremble with fear at that time. So they lit a bonfire and watched these evil spirits closely. That's how the saying that there are witches and ghosts everywhere on Halloween comes from. Until now, in some isolated places in Europe, there are still people who believe this is true.

The ancient Romans also had a festival in 1 65438+1October1to pay tribute to their goddess Pomona. They roasted nuts and apples in front of the blazing bonfire. Our Halloween seems to be a combination of ancient Roman festivals and Druidic festivals.

Halloween activities used to be very simple, and most of them were held in churches. But all over Europe, people regard Halloween as a good opportunity to have fun, tell ghost stories and scare each other. So people no longer use this festival to praise autumn, but let it become a festival of monsters.

The meaning of Halloween: praising autumn, offering sacrifices to the dead and praying for peace.

Halloween, also known as Halloween, is a traditional festival in the west, which is held in 10 every year. 65438+1October 3 1 on Halloween is the most lively moment of this festival. In China, Halloween is often misunderstood as Halloween.

In order to celebrate Halloween, children will dress up as cute ghosts and knock on doors to ask for candy, otherwise they will be naughty. At the same time, it is said that on this night, all kinds of ghosts will dress up as children and mingle with the masses to celebrate the arrival of Halloween, while human beings dress up as ghosts to make ghosts more harmonious.

Custom of Halloween

1, pumpkin lantern

There is also the custom of carving pumpkin lanterns on Halloween, which is an interesting Irish folklore. It is said that there is an alcoholic named Jack. One day, he invited evil spirits to drink with him, but after drinking, he had no money to pay the bill. He designed to turn the evil spirits into sixpence to pay for the drinks, but Jack didn't pay. Instead, he used a piece of silver paper to stop evil spirits from coming out.

The evil spirit begged Jack to let him out and promised not to scare him or harass him, so Jack came out. The next Halloween, the evil spirit made an agreement with Jack, promising not to harass him this year, but Jack died soon. At this time, heaven refused to take him in, so Jack had to report to hell, but because the evil spirit had promised him not to harass him this year, he could not take him in.

You can't go to heaven or hell. What should Jack do? Besides, the road is too dark for Jack to find a way out. At this time, the evil spirit threw him a piece of red-hot coal so that he could see the road clearly in the dark hell. Jack put this small piece of charcoal ash in a vegetable head with many holes, so that it can burn for a long time.

According to this legend, the Irish later made what they called "Jack-o 'lanterns" from vegetable heads. However, when immigrants arrived in the United States, they found that pumpkins in the New World were more common than vegetable heads, so they carved various faces with pumpkins and put candles in them. This is the origin of "pumpkin lantern".

2, mask makeup

In ancient times, if there was drought or other major disasters, people would wear ugly masks because they were afraid of evil spirits wandering outside at night. If they have to go out at night, they will wear masks or decorate themselves with animal fur, hoping that evil spirits will not recognize them or be scared away by ugly masks.

Later, the religious meaning of fear of ghosts and gods gradually faded, and slowly children began to dress up as ghosts and spirits, go out to scare their neighbors and ask adults trickortreat them to candy.