What is April Fool's Day? April Fool's Day, I believe most people know this festival, but a few people don't know it. I don't know what festival it is. Then tell us what April Fool's Day is.

What is April Fool's Day for? April Fool's Day means playing tricks on others. On this day, everyone plays jokes on each other and fools others, thus achieving the purpose of happiness.

April 1 day is April Fool's Day every year, which is a traditional folk festival in the West and the United States. April Fool's Day originated in France. 1564, France adopted the newly reformed Gregorian calendar for the first time, with 65438+ 10/month 1 as the beginning of the year. However, some old-fashioned people oppose this reform and still stubbornly celebrate the New Year by giving gifts on April 1 day according to the old calendar.

Advocates of reform laugh at these old-fashioned practices. Smart and funny people gave them fake gifts on April 1, invited them to a fake wine party, and called the deceived conservatives "April Fools" or "Fish on the Hook". From then on, people fooled each other on April 1 day, which became a popular custom in France.

/kloc-At the beginning of the 8th century, the custom of April Fool's Day spread to Britain, and was later brought to the United States by early British immigrants. With the popularity of the Internet, April Fool's Day is not just a simple joke in reality, but has been extended to the Internet. Every April Fool's Day, various April Fool's Day prank pages are widely circulated on the Internet.

April Fool's Day prank website Google ranked first. Google's annual April Fool's prank may be the most anticipated by netizens, such as underwater search, red and white machine map, crossing search and so on. Other well-known websites, such as Yi Bei, ThinkGeek and Blizzard, will also publish stupid pages and stupid articles on April Fool's Day.

In China, many websites, large and small, also publish their own April Fool's Day pages, such as the special April Fool's Day page of ABCD 9.com. It is worth mentioning that at present, the April Fool's Day pages of many personal websites in China are simple, boring and boring by recycling the reminder window or opening the browser window. To deal with this kind of webpage with no entertainment value, just close the browser process directly in the process manager.

What is April Fool's Day for? The most typical activity of April Fool's Day is that people play jokes on each other and play tricks on each other with lies.

Some people tie their wallets to the street with a thin thread and pull the other end in the dark. Once someone finds a wallet, they will suddenly drag it away. Others put bricks under the broken hat in the middle of the road, waiting to see who will kick them.

Children will tell their parents that there is a hole in their schoolbags or a black spot on their faces. When adults bend over to see it, they will shout "Happy April Fool's Day". Run away with a smile. In a word, on April Fool's Day, zoos and aquariums will also receive many phone calls to Mr. Fish and Mr. Tiger, which often leads staff to cut off telephone lines in order to reduce trouble.

On April Fool's Day, people will organize family gatherings and decorate their rooms with daffodils and daisies. The typical traditional practice is to decorate a fake environment, and the room can be decorated like Christmas or New Year. When the guests come, it is unique and interesting to congratulate "Merry Christmas" or "Happy New Year".

At the April Fool's Day party, there is also the custom of cooking fake dishes. Someone once described a typical April Fool's Day recipe: first, it was a "salad" with green peppers on the leaves of lettuce, but after uncovering the leaves, it was discovered that it was an oyster cocktail underneath; The second course is "baked potato", in fact, there are sweet bread crumbs and fresh mushrooms below; Since then, there have been roast chicken disguised with crab meat and raspberry ice cream buried under tomato salad. After dinner, guests can also take candy out of the pill box.

Today's fish feast. It is also unique. Invitations to fish banquets are usually colored fish made of cardboard. The dining table is decorated in green and white. There is a fish tank and a small fishing rod in the middle. Each fishing rod is tied with a green ribbon and hung with a gift for the guests, a delicate celluloid fish or a fish basket full of candy. It goes without saying that all the dishes at the fish feast are made of fish.

What is April Fool's Day? What does April Fool's Day mean?

April Fool's Day, also known as Humor Festival and April Fool's Day, falls on April 1 day in the new calendar every year. April Fool's Day, as its name implies, is a day to play jokes on people around you and take pleasure in "fooling others". This behavior was very popular in the west in the19th century.

There are many sources of April Fool's Day. Let me tell you the origin of April Fool's Day, which is highly credible. It is said that April Fool's Day originated from the "Interpretation Festival" in India, and couples are required to joke or cheat each other on this day to achieve the purpose of entertainment.

Another way of saying it is that April Fool's Day originated in France in 1582. France implemented the reformed chronology law, but it was protested by the conservatives in that country. They did not support it. These conservatives continued to give gifts and celebrate activities regardless of the reforms implemented by the country. Those who carry out this kind of reform are very dissatisfied with what these old-fashioned people have done and feel that they are against them. They made fun of them and called this day "April Fool's Day" and "Fish on the Hook". After that, they will cheat and entertain each other on this day, which has become a custom for a long time.

After spreading experience, the United States and Britain also have this holiday custom. In view of the fact that there were no relevant laws and regulations on the scale of jokes and speeches in the United States at that time, many people didn't care to publish their own jokes and speeches on the same day, which made the rumors spread bigger and bigger, making many people unable to distinguish between true and false, causing public panic. Later, the United States stipulated that April Fool's jokes or speeches could only be said at noon 12.

There are many customs and habits on April Fool's Day, and each country is different. However, there are some things in common. On April Fool's Day, many countries enjoy playing tricks on people.

Because of the authenticity and malice of this festival, there are not many jokes, but some jokes go too far, which are easy to cause people's panic and have a great impact, and turn into rumors and urban rumors. What's more, some countries will tell some jokes as news release on April Fool's Day, so many countries have not determined this festival as a legal holiday, and it can only be regarded as a folk entertainment festival.