When is Ghost Festival in the West?

Western Halloween is Halloween, which falls on June 3 1 day every year.

Halloween originated from the ancient Celtic New Year's Festival, and it is also a day to worship the dead. While avoiding the interference of evil spirits, they also worship ancestors and kind gods with food and pray for peace through the severe winter.

The legend of Halloween:

Since 500 BC, Celts living in Ireland, Scotland and other places have advanced Halloween 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. The living are afraid that the souls of the dead will take life.

So people put out the fire and candlelight on this day, so that the souls of the dead could not find the living. They dressed up as monsters to scare away the souls of the dead. After that, they will rekindle bonfires and candlelight and start a new year's life.