What are the customs of Halloween?

1. pumpkin lantern

The symbol of Halloween is pumpkin lantern, and there is a story about pumpkin carved into lanterns. This comes from ancient Ireland. The story is about a man named Jack. He is drunk and likes playing practical jokes. One day, Jack tricked the devil into climbing a tree, and then carved a cross on the stump, threatening the devil not to come down. Then Jack made an agreement with the devil to let him come down from the tree on the condition that the devil promised to cast a spell so that Jack would never commit a crime. After Jack died, his soul could neither go to heaven nor go to hell, so his ghost had to wander between heaven and earth with a small candle. In the ancient Irish legend, this small candle was put in the hollowed-out radish and called "JACKLANTERNS", while the ancient radish lantern evolved to today, and it was made of pumpkin lantern. It is said that soon after the Irish arrived in America, they found that pumpkins were superior to radishes in source and carving, so pumpkins became Halloween pets.

2. Holiday food

The symbol of Halloween is pumpkin lantern, so pumpkin pie is also a holiday food for Halloween, especially in America. Pumpkin pie is a traditional home-cooked dish in the southern United States from late autumn to early winter. People usually eat it, especially around Halloween, and it becomes a holiday food. In addition, dried pumpkin seeds are often regarded as Halloween food. As Halloween approaches toffeeapples harvest, caramel apples have become a seasonal food. The method is to insert the apple directly into the bamboo stick from the pedicle, then hold the bamboo stick and soak the apple in a layer of sugar-coated syrup, sometimes with nuts, marshmallows, biscuits, popcorn and so on. Sometimes you add cinnamon powder to make delicate snacks, sometimes you soak it in chocolate and stick colored chocolate rice on the outside. The sweetness of apples goes well with the icing on the outside, and children like it! Caramel apple is a holiday food from Halloween to Christmas, which is popular all over the United States. In the United States, every household will prepare caramel apples for children who come to the door for candy on Halloween, but there have also been cases where someone intentionally hurts others by inserting needles and blades into the apples, and the habit of sending caramel apples has gradually disappeared. Although most of them are just pranks and the children in real cases are only slightly injured, many parents are still very uneasy. There is also a hot apple, Sida, which means apple juice or cider. This drink is made by heating cider and adding cinnamon, cloves and sugar. When heated, alcohol almost evaporated. This drink is very popular in Europe and America in winter. I often drink it from Christmas to this time of spring. The practice is quite similar, that is, replacing cider with red wine. On Halloween night, children and teenagers will dress up as ghosts and ask for candy along the street, so all kinds of candy can be regarded as a kind of food for the occasion. At this time, the candy sold in shops is more popular with all kinds of candy in the shape of ghosts and candy packaged in orange, brown or black, which is very common on Halloween.

On Halloween, children go door-to-door asking for candy and other gifts.

An interesting content of Halloween is Trickortreat, but this custom did not originate from Ireland, but from the Christian church in Europe in the ninth century. At that time,165438+1October 2nd was called "ALLSOULSDAY" by Christians. On this day, believers trudged in the backcountry, begging for "soul cakes" made of flour and raisins from one village to another. It is said that the person who donated the cake believed the prayers of the church monks, hoping to get God's protection and let the dead relatives enter heaven as soon as possible. This tradition of begging from house to house has evolved into a game, in which children carry pumpkin lanterns and beg for candy from house to house. When they met, the children dressed as ghosts threatened to make trouble without inviting them to dinner, but the host naturally dared not neglect and repeatedly said, "Please eat! Please eat! " At the same time, put the candy into the big pocket that the child carries with him.