Introduction:
April Fool's Day is a popular folk festival in the west since the19th century, and no country has recognized it as a legal holiday so far. On this day, people cheat and play tricks on each other in various ways, and often at the end of the joke, they will expose and announce that the object of the joke is a "fool". The nature of jokes rarely contains substantial malice, but individual jokes, because they are too big and have large-scale repercussions, become rumors and urban legends, causing people's panic, so people generally avoid jokes like avoiding disasters.
It should be noted that on April Fool's Day, jokes can only be played until noon 12, which is an established strict rule. People who joke after midnight will immediately find themselves in trouble. They are called bigger fools than the people they make fun of.
Tracing back to the origin of April Fool's Day, there are probably the following:
Those who advocate reform laugh at these practices of the old school, give them fake gifts and invite them to fake parties. Since then, things that play tricks on people on this day have spread. When a person is deceived, the person who plays tricks on him will shout: "Poisson de Avril", which means "April prank". The origin and original intention of this idiom are not clear.
1, 1582, the French king Charles IX decided to adopt the newly reformed calendar-Gregorian calendar (that is, the universal solar calendar), taking New Year's Day as the beginning of the year, instead of taking April 1 day as the beginning of the new year. However, some old-school people oppose this reform and still celebrate the New Year by giving New Year gifts on this day according to the old calendar.
Smart and funny people gave them fake gifts on April 1 day, invited them to a fake reception, and called the deceived conservatives "April fools" or "hooked fish". 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.
2. According to the research of British historians, the origin of April Fool's Day comes from the word "reach the other side" in Indian Buddhism. In the British encyclopedia, it is recorded that "April Fool's Day" is a deceptive festival after the religious revolution in the15th century. At that time, King Philip II of Spain had established a "heresy tribunal", and anyone who was not a Catholic was regarded as heresy and was sentenced to death on April 1 day every year. The subjects were very afraid. They took pleasure in telling lies and making fun every day to dilute their fear and hatred of the rulers. Since then, it has been used for a long time and evolved into today's "April Fool's Day".
It is said that about 1650 years after Adam, the ancestor of mankind, God destroyed the world with a flood, leaving only Noah, the descendant of Adam's third son, Huide. He saved a family's life by building a ship with a man. After the flood subsided a little, Noah released a white dove to explore a piece of land after the flood subsided, because it happened to be April 1 day. Therefore, future generations think that doing something meaningless on this day is just like a dove getting something for nothing, and its behavior is stupid. This is the origin of April Fool's Day. film
According to the records of the remnants of ancient Rome, Rome held the "Manjiang Club" at the beginning of April every year. One year, Bailuo sabine, the daughter of Shirley, the dominant god, met Prado, the keeper of the underworld, and they fell in love at first sight and showed their love to each other. Prado married Bailo sabina as the queen of hades. When they returned to the underworld, Prado was a bad job. Therefore, they regard the annual "Manjiang Club" as "April Fool's Day".
According to Christians, "April Fool's Day" is to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus. Before Jesus was crucified, he was forced to run around. Future generations will commemorate his innocent suffering on April 1 day, which actually contains the significance of vigilance.
6. April Fool's Day is similar to the fun festival in ancient Rome (Hilaria, March 25th) and the joy festival in India (Holi Festival, until March 3rd1).
7. The choice of time is related to the "vernal equinox". At this time, the weather often changes suddenly, just like nature is fooling human beings.
8. There is a British folklore that April Fool's Day is related to a small town called Gotham Town. Legend has it that there was a tradition in the13rd century that the roads where the king went would be owned by the public. The people of Gotham don't want to lose their main road, so they spread rumors, hoping to stop the king's patrol. The king then sent an information officer to ask. When the information officer arrived at the village, he found that the street was full of lunatics. The king abandoned his visit plan. So April Fool's Day comes from a lie in memory of Gotham citizens.
9. The clown said that Joseph Boskin, honorary professor of American humor at Boston University, put forward his own views on the historical origin of April Fool's Day. He thinks April Fool's Day originated as a joke. 1983, the king of Persia once said that the concept of April Fool's Day originated from Roman clowns in Constantine I of Rome in the third and fourth centuries. It is said that at that time, clowns petitioned the ruler successfully, and the ruler allowed them to recommend a member to become king one day. So, on April 1 day, Constantine I handed over the rule of the Roman Empire to one of his clowns, King Kujil. Kujir immediately issued a decree to make April 1 day an absurd day forever. Boskin said that news organizations at that time were not very interested in this topic. "I think I should have been praised by everyone for this bizarre story."