When is Halloween? What's the point?

1. What is the meaning of Halloween?

Every year, 65438+1October 3 1 is a traditional western festival, Halloween. ? Halloween? Also called? Ghost Festival? . It is one of the festivals with a long history in the west. It is said that as early as BC, Celts living in the British Isles, Ireland and France held celebrations for the disabled and the dark gods every year 10 and 3 1. That night, they prepared many delicious foods for good ghosts to eat, and lit bonfires on the hills in the wilderness, so that bright flames attracted good ghosts and drove away demons. This may be the earliest form of Halloween. What happened afterwards? Ghost Festival? The traditional festival of combining with Christianity and becoming a saint was renamed? Halloween? The time is set at 1 65438+1October1every year. Later, the festival gradually spread from Europe to North America and other parts of the world.

The origin of Halloween

On this day, both adults and children can do their best to make trouble without attracting strange eyes. Most families will put some pumpkins or scarecrows as tall as real people in the yard, and hang small pumpkin lanterns or skeletons on the windows; Some people still hang some cobwebs above the front door. Families who are active or have young people at home will hold masquerade parties or decorate their homes as haunted houses! Halloween is the third largest festival after Christmas and Thanksgiving.

As night falls, children can't wait to put on colorful clothes and strange masks. Some of them put on dark robes, rode magic brooms and pretended to be witches; Some are wrapped in white sheets and pretend to be ghosts; Some put on hats with skulls and flags and dress up as pirates; Many children will also carry pumpkin lanterns made of pumpkins (jack-o? -Lantern. In the moonlight, they came to the neighbor's door and threatened to shout "Trick or treat". If someone doesn't give them candy or change, those naughty children sometimes draw handles on the doors or other people's cats. These little pranks often make adults laugh and cry. Of course, most people are happy to entertain these naive and romantic little guests. So when night falls, the children always return home full of food.

2. What does Halloween mean?

Every year10,31is Halloween, a traditional western festival. On that night, children will put on makeup clothes and masks and collect fruits from house to house. Festivals are mainly popular in English, such as the British Isles and North America, followed by Australia and New Zealand.

The origin of festivals

The first statement

There are many versions of the legend about the origin of Halloween. The most common one is that it originated in ancient western European countries before the birth of Halloween ghost dog Christ.

Mainly including Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The ancient Western Europeans in these places were called Celts. Celtic New Year is on 1 1 month 1 day, New Year's Eve. The Celts brought young people together, 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). They wandered around the village. It was actually celebrating the autumn harvest; Some people say yes? Ghost Festival? It is said that the souls of those who died in those years 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 Christianity destroying pagans. 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. It is said that meeting a black cat that day is equivalent to meeting a witch, and there will be a year of disaster, so everyone will dress up in disguise that day and drive away those unlucky symbols.

The second statement

More than two thousand years ago, the Catholic Church in Europe designated 1 65438+1October1as? Halloween? (Halloween). HALLOW？ Which means saint. Legend has it that since 500 BC, Celts living in Ireland, Scotland and other places have moved this festival forward by one day, that is, 65438+1October 3 1. They think that this day is the day when summer officially ends, that is, the beginning of the new year and the beginning of the severe winter. At that time, people believed that on this day, the dead souls of the deceased would return to their former homes to look for all beings, so as to be reborn, which was the only hope of being reborn after death. Living people are afraid of dead souls to take life, so people put out fire and candlelight on this day, so that dead souls can't find living people and dress up as monsters to scare away dead souls. After that, they will rekindle the candlelight and start a new year's life. Legend has it that the Celtic tribes still had the custom of killing the living to commemorate the dead on June 3 10. By the 1 century, the Romans who occupied the territory of Celtic tribes gradually accepted the custom of Halloween, but the barbaric practice of burning the living to sacrifice the dead was abolished. Roman festivals celebrating harvest were combined with Celtic rituals, wearing terrible masks and dressed as animals or ghosts to drive away demons wandering around them. This is why most people in the world celebrate Halloween with strange costumes today. With the passage of time, the meaning of Halloween has gradually changed, becoming active, joyful and festive. The idea of the deceased seeking the reincarnation of body double was gradually abandoned and forgotten. Today, most images and pictures symbolizing Halloween, such as witches and black cats, have friendly, lovely and interesting faces.

The third statement

The Celts believed that the sun god helped them grow crops. However, the sun god is attacked by an evil force called Samhain every year and imprisoned for six months. Samhain, there are two other titles, which are? King of death? And then what? Prince of darkness? He came to Celtic land with cold and dark winter. The Celts were very afraid of the night of June 3 1 because they thought there were a group of evil spirits lurking anywhere. They make a fire at home to let the evil spirits leave their home. They believe that Samhain summons the dead, and they also believe that Samhain will turn the dead into something else, such as a cat. The Celts will put on terrible camouflage to drive away those evil souls. (This is the prototype of Halloween) After Rome occupied Celtic land, Roman festivals were combined with Celtic Samhain Festival on June 10 and June 3 1 day, which became the present Halloween.

The fourth statement

Originally, Halloween originated from Samhain (pronounced Sow-in) of ancient Croste (Celtic, the ancestor of Irish people). Ancient Crete

After the introduction of Christianity, in order to assimilate paganism, the original Halloween (AllSaints? Day or AllHallows) is changed to the same day, that is, 1 1 month/day, 1 October 3 1 day becomes Halloween. Croste used to be a nomadic people. On the one hand, it is a festival for them to prepare for the arrival of winter and welcome the New Year. On the other hand, it is also a religious festival. Samhain is one of the gods they believe in, and its priest is called Druid. Although there is no official historical record, most researchers believe that people can see things in the spiritual world, including the dead souls of the spiritual world and the return of evil spirits. These spiritual individuals are evil, and they want to hurt others on the lunar calendar. Therefore, Cloeter people should be kind to these ghosts and don't deceive them into the wrong way. For example, some people put food in front of the house for ghosts to enjoy. so this is it？ TrickorTreat？ The origin of. At the same time, Father Zhao Yi also held a religious ceremony that night. Almost all studies have pointed out that slaughtered livestock are also used for ritual sacrifices. As for whether there is murder or sacrifice, although opinions vary, no one denies it. Besides, there must be divination and witchcraft or something. Other Halloween customs also have some origins of witchcraft and superstition, such as the jack-o-lantern with its face cut off. It is said that a man named Jack refused to accept heaven or hell after his death because of his extremely bad behavior, so he had to wander around, find a radish, hollow out the middle, put some red-hot coal on it and find his way in the dark. In addition, Halloween costumes originated from Yin Festival, where participants slaughtered livestock and put on skins. There are also masks worn by participants, which were originally meant to ward off evil spirits and were handed down.

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