What month is Halloween?

Halloween (alias: Halloween, English name: Halloween) is a traditional festival in the west, and the date is 1 1 every year. On Halloween,10,31is the most lively moment of this festival. Children will dress up as cute ghosts, knock on doors and ask for candy, or they will be naughty. Legend has it that on this night, all kinds of ghosts will dress up as children and mix with the masses to celebrate Halloween.

Halloween is the most haunted time of the year, and all kinds of monsters, pirates, alien visitors and witches are out in succession. Before the Christian era, the Celts held a ceremony in late 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 Christianity later replaced the religious activities of Celts and Romans, the early customs still existed. Children wear all kinds of costumes and masks to attend the Halloween dance with a playful attitude. Witches, black cats, ghosts and bones are often hung on the walls around these dances, and grinning or disgusting pumpkin lanterns are hung on the windows and doors.

On Halloween, children will carry pumpkin lanterns, wear all kinds of strange clothes and ask for candy from house to house, and keep saying "trick or treat" (meaning: "trick or treat." If you refuse to give candy, the children will be very angry and punish you in various ways, such as taking out the garbage in your house until you are willing to give them candy. Traditionally, people dress up as elves and beg for food from door to door. Their belief is to give fairy worship and food to please them, otherwise they will play tricks on them, such as: chimneys are blocked, cattle and sheep are lost, and yellow buds and white flowers are thrown at them. Another way to fool or scare away these evil spirits is to dress up like them, so that they believe that evil spirits will not hurt them.

During Halloween, Spain sells about 265,438+00,000 kilograms of candy and 500,000 kilograms of flowers every year. Besides candy, there are all kinds of pancakes, sage and pine nut cakes.

Since17th century, the tradition of celebrating Halloween has gradually disappeared in southern England, and was replaced by a gunpowder plot held on10.5. But Halloween is still very popular in Scotland, Ireland and northern England. It was not until the beginning of 2 1 century that southern England began to celebrate Halloween again, but the way was completely American.

The most popular game on Halloween is "biting apples". In the game, people let the apples float in a basin filled with water, and then let the children bite the apples with their mouths instead of their hands. Whoever bites first wins.

Halloween originated from the ancient Celtic New Year. At this time, it is also the time 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. That night, children will put on makeup clothes and masks and collect candy from house to house.