Folk customs in various places

65438+1October 3 1 is Halloween in western countries. Halloween originated from Celtic tribes in Central and Western Europe around 1000 BC. Celtic

People worship the priest god (Druidism). According to the Celtic religious belief, the god of death and the night god will die on 10 and 3 1 every year.

Spirit drives the priest god. Another legend: the Romans believed that the priest's New Year was 1 1+0. On this day, the priest called all the gods in heaven to Ann.

Soothes the guilty soul. According to this ancient legend, paper-cut monsters, witches and elves are staged on Halloween today.

A week before Halloween, children began to prepare ghost masks and daunting costumes with the help of their parents. At night (Halloween),

That night, most children dressed up strangely, carrying small cloth bags and begging from door to door. They rang the neighbor's doorbell and someone answered the door.

At that time, they shouted, "Trick or treat". Adults also like these "begging" children. They touch the children.

Take a small cloth bag with you, and then put some sweets, cakes and fruits in the bag. Therefore, most western families should prepare some for the door at night.

Begging for food If someone refuses the children's request, they will be played a trick. Children will put soap on people's windows. They will.

Move people's tools for pruning flowers and plants to places that are hard to find.

Halloween is a carnival night for big children to play pranks. They threw eggs and tomatoes at passing cars and put people in their hallways.

Things like furniture are taken out and thrown into garbage bins, graffiti is painted on the railings of colonnades in public places, and wax oil that is difficult to remove is coated on the glass windows of shops and restaurants.

In the car or on the windshield. Children living in mountainous areas will also pick pumpkins planted on the hillside and roll them down the mountain as balls to eat. British horse

Well, Ji Ma called it Halloween Knocking Night. Because on this night, some people get together to use radishes,

Cabbages, tomatoes or similar things knock on people's doors until someone comes out and gives them money or something. Therefore, in order to prevent

Some people's ultra-destructive behavior, Halloween street police are heavily guarded, ready to stop ultra-destructive behavior and arrest people who violate the criminal law.

Some mass organizations will hold various entertainment activities on Halloween, with the aim of guiding young people's excess energy to the normal track of activities. active

Those who perform well can get certain rewards 2. Generally, organizers of Halloween cultural activities will provide participants with free chocolates and candy cakes.

Ordering and drinks, etc. However, all entertainment activities must be hosted by young people, which is the custom of Halloween. There is a flattery contest on Halloween.

Telling ghost stories, playing ghost games and biting apples hanging in the air are all weird and absurd activities.

Pumpkin lanterns, apples and corn stalks are the mascots for Halloween. Pumpkin pie, popcorn and apple juice are Halloween snacks. Halloween

Ghosts, ghosts, black cats and witches cut out of paper are a worship of Halloween. Legend has it that the ancient Celts thanked the sun god for bringing wealth to mankind.

In order to drive away the guilty souls, they burned a yellow fire on the mountain at Halloween, and then told their most terrible stories around the fire.

Older women on the calendar asked the "witch" to predict their luck in the coming year. It is said that black cats are witches' mascots. Pumpkin lantern, apple

And corn stalks are all symbols of Halloween. It is said that there was a man named Jack in ancient Ireland. He was disrespectful to God and stingy. Postmortem game

He was driven out of the underworld and sentenced to walk in the dark with a lantern forever. Halloween was not popular in early America. 1840

In, it became popular only after a large number of Gran people from England came to North America. However, the custom of Halloween has changed since it spread to America.

Change. For example, pumpkins replace radishes or lanterns with human faces. On Halloween, Americans hollowed out pumpkins and carved human facial features on them.

Then light a small candle in the hollowed pumpkin. In this way, the jack-o-lantern looks like a smiling eyelid from a distance in the dark. Digging out pumpkin pulp can

Make delicious pumpkin pie. Because pumpkins play an important role in Halloween, all pumpkins will be snapped up that night.

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The custom of children going out to beg on Halloween also originated in Ireland. Irish children are Irish religious gods on Halloween.

Muckolla and begging from door to door. Later, children in other parts of Europe followed the example of Irish children: on Halloween.

Wearing strange clothes and ghost masks, I went out to beg, but I thought it was a "soul cake". United States, 1950

Children in Philadelphia, China first proposed that the food they "begged" for Halloween should be enjoyed by children all over the world. Later, American children put forward the idea of all saints.

I have to beg for money instead of food. In this way, you can send the begging money to children in other countries through UNICEF.

Kid. Now, on Halloween, you can often see children carrying the words UNICEF in their small bags. UNICEF has a special person.

Responsible for the "begging" activities of children on Halloween.