When is Ghost Festival in America?

Halloween in the United States is Halloween, and the time is 1 65438+1October1every year.

In western countries, there is a "Halloween" on June 3rd1every year, which is usually called Halloween night in China. Halloween is a traditional festival in the west and the most haunted night of the year, so it is also called "Ghost Festival". Foreigners can always play crazy, and the streets are full of ghosts. In China, although there is no crazyparty with ghosts, there are always some funny little details that can make people laugh. Golden Eagle Xinjiekou Store and Golden Eagle Tiandi also create a strong "Ghost Festival" atmosphere. In Nanjing, we will also experience some fun in ordinary life because of pumpkin lanterns and grimace masks.

However, the highlight of Halloween is still at the dinner table. You should not only prepare delicious food to entertain those "children" who make trouble, but also decorate your dining table on this special festival. Don't let your guests underestimate you!

On the most "haunted" night of the year, all kinds of monsters, pirates, alien visitors and witches are out in succession. Before the Christian era, the Celts held ceremonies in summer to thank God and the sun for their kindness. At that time, fortune tellers lit and practiced witchcraft to drive away monsters who were said to be wandering around. Later, the harvest festival celebrated by the Romans with nuts and apples merged with Celtic 10 and 3 1. In the Middle Ages, people put on costumes in the shape of animals and put on terrible masks to drive away ghosts in the dark. Although it later replaced the religious activities of Celts and Romans, the early customs still existed. Now, children wear all kinds of costumes and masks to attend Halloween dances. Witches, black cats, ghosts and paper-pasted bones are often hung on the walls around these dances, while grinning or ugly pumpkin lanterns are hung on the windows and doorways. Children often try to bite the hanging apples.

The origin of Halloween

Regarding the origin of Halloween, the most legendary version holds that it originated in ancient western European countries before the birth of Christ, mainly including Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The ancient Western Europeans in these places were called Drouth people. The New Year in Drouth is 1 1 month 1 day, New Year's Eve. People in Drouth let young people wander among villages in groups, wearing all kinds of weird masks and carrying carved radish lanterns (pumpkin lanterns are a late custom, and there were no pumpkins in ancient Western Europe). It was actually celebrating the autumn harvest; Some people say it is "Ghost Festival". It is said that the souls of those who died that year will visit the world on Halloween. It is said that people should let visiting ghosts see the harvest and show rich enthusiasm to them. All the bonfires and lights, in order to scare away ghosts, also illuminate the route for ghosts and guide them back.

In medieval Central Europe, there was a history of Christian extermination. However, the sacrificial ceremony before New Year's Eve never really disappeared, but appeared in the form of witchcraft. That's why we have traces of witches' brooms, black cats, spells and so on on Halloween.

The emergence of the word Halloween

Many ethnic groups hold celebration parties on Halloween, which are also called Halloween, Halloween, Halloween or Halloween. Finally, the agreement evolved into "Halloween" and the Chinese translation became Halloween night.

The legend of "scheming"

It is said that the custom of children dressing up and asking for candy from door to door today originated in Ireland. In ancient western Europe, Irish Yi believers believed that on Halloween, ghosts would gather near their homes and receive banquets. So, after the "banquet", the villagers dressed up as ghosts and wandered outside the village to guide the ghosts away to avoid evil spirits and disasters. At the same time, the villagers also pay attention to some fruits and other foods in the front yard and backyard, and feed the ghosts to prevent them from hurting people and animals or plundering other crops. Later, this custom continued and became a joke for children to make fun of this ungrateful family.

As for the jack-o'-lantern, there are at least two versions. One is that people hollowed out pumpkins to carve faces and lit candles to disperse ghosts; The other is that the ghost lit a candle to trick people into following the ghost, so people carved a mocking face on the surface of the pumpkin to tease the ghost: Hum! Only a fool will be fooled by you. Legend has it that Jack, an Irishman, was the first person to use pumpkins, so people also call Jack-o-lantern a grimace pumpkin lantern.

It's Halloween.

Today, Halloween has completely lost its religious superstition. It became a children's program, a young people's masquerade program.

Society has always given positive guidance to festival activities: adults are required to educate their children not to do threatening pranks, and adults are also required to take their children out together (generally, adults park their cars on the side of the road and children knock on the door for candy). Adults should let their children only go to houses with holiday decorations and lights at the door, otherwise they will not be disturbed. In addition, in the process of begging for sugar, you must always stand at the gate and wait, and you are not allowed to enter the house. The sugar you get back must be inspected by Jiaotong University before you can eat it. Families receiving children are also required not to provide homemade food or unpackaged food.

Holiday arrangements in public places and at home are voluntary. Face pumpkin lantern, white net black spider, etc. They are all holiday decorations, and there is no scary ghost color at all. Some lesbians learn to buy a pair of pumpkin or ghost skull earrings to wear at this time. If the layout of any house is too horrible, it will be stopped by the relevant parties, and the media will also be exposed for the public to blame.

Halloween costumes are also full of people, not monotonous children in GREAT GHOST. There are many channels to teach people how to make Halloween costumes. For example, make the simplest ghost clothes and cover your head with a white sheet. Don't forget to buckle two holes for your eyes. If you want to play a magician, put on black pants and a black hat, and hide a fluffy rabbit between the hat and the top of your head. Also teach adults how to dress up their children as angels, white clothes and trousers, and then how to tie a flashlight to their heads from behind; They also teach children how to dress up as their favorite cartoon characters. Of course, businessmen in the clothing and props industries have more articles to do.

There is no holiday at school on Halloween. Sometimes schools come forward to organize parties, and sometimes students who are unwilling to be lonely will hold small parties themselves; Every October, friends and family send cards to wish each other a happy Halloween, which is a popular custom. Now the development of Internet makes it more convenient and economical to send Halloween cards. Some websites have designed various Halloween cards with sound animation effects.

In a word, Halloween has become a very common seasonal festival in the West. Many people regard this as the end of autumn and the arrival of winter. After Halloween, people began to look forward to Thanksgiving, Christmas and even the New Year.