April Fool's Day, also known as April Fool's Day, is a traditional folk festival in the West and the United States. The festival is held every April 1 day. 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). The timing seems to be related to the "vernal equinox" (March 2 1). At this time, the weather often changes suddenly, just like nature is fooling human beings. There are different opinions about the origin of April Fool's Day. One view is that this custom originated from India's "Interpretation Festival". This section stipulates that every year on March 3 1 day, men, women and children can play jokes on each other and fool each other for entertainment. The more common saying of April Fool's Day originated in France. 1564, France adopted the newly reformed Gregorian calendar (now Gregorian calendar) for the first time, with 65438+ 10/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.

In the beginning, any American can concoct shocking news without any moral and legal responsibility, and the government and judicial departments will not pursue it. On the contrary, whoever fabricates the most bizarre lies and who can deceive people the most will win the championship. This practice has brought a lot of confusion to the society, which has caused people's dissatisfaction. Nowadays, people's fooling and cheating during festivals are no longer as outrageous as in the past, but for relaxation and joy.

[Edit this paragraph] April Fool's Day custom

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

April 1 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.

There is also the custom of cooking fake dishes at April Fool's Day parties. 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.

However, the most typical activity of April Fool's Day is that everyone plays jokes on each other and plays 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. Yu and Mr. Cheng Leon, which often leads staff to cut off telephone lines in order to reduce trouble.

[Edit this paragraph] The origin of April Fool's Day

Tracing back to the origin of April Fool's Day [4], there are about the following kinds:

1564, the French king Charles IX decided to adopt the newly reformed calendar-Gregorian calendar (currently commonly used solar calendar), with 65438+ 10/0 as the beginning of the year, instead of April 1 as the beginning of the new year. However, some old-school people opposed this reform, and still presented New Year gifts on April 1 day according to the old calendar to celebrate the New Year. Advocates of reform laughed at these practices of the old school and gave them fake gifts in April 1 and invited them to a fake party. Since then, April 1 has spread the joke. When a person is deceived, the person who plays tricks on him will shout: "Poisson's D 'Avril" (2), which means "April prank". The origin and original intention of this idiom are not clear.

According to the research of British historians, the origin of April Fool's Day comes from the Indian Buddhist proverb "Reach the other shore". 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".

According to legend, 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 slightly, Noah released a white dove and wanted to explore a piece of land after the flood subsided, because this day happened to be April of 1 year. 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.

According to the records of the remnants of ancient Rome, Rome held the "Manjiang Club" at the beginning of April every year. In a certain year, the daughter of Shirley, the dominant god, met Prado, the Pluto, and they fell in love at first sight and showed their love to each other. Prado married Baroce Pi Na as the queen of hades. When they returned to the underworld, Prado was sent to the underworld. Therefore, they regard the annual "Manjiang Conference" as "April Fool's Day". [3]

According to Christians, April Fool's Day commemorates the day when Jesus was crucified. Before Jesus was crucified, he was forced to run around. Later generations used April of 1 year to commemorate his innocent suffering, which actually contained the significance of vigilance.

April 1 was originally the New Year's Day of the old European calendar, but then France changed the new calendar first, and all the greetings of the old calendar were changed to 1 month 1 day of the new calendar. However, the custom of celebrating the New Year in the old calendar has been used for a long time, and I can't forget it for a while. Therefore, they will make all kinds of false gifts or hold banquets on the first day of April in the new calendar to have a good laugh. Later it evolved into "April Fool's Day". Another way of saying this is that the new school adopting the new calendar deliberately plays tricks on the old school, especially giving gifts to people of the old school in a hypocritical way on 1.