April Fool's Day is celebrated on April 1 day in Gregorian calendar, which is a popular folk festival in the west since19th century, and has not been recognized as a legal holiday in any country.
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. On this day, people can give full play to their imaginations and try to make up some sensational lies to make fun of. Coax, tease, fool others. On April Fool's Day, jokes can only be played until noon 12, which is a strict rule established by convention.
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There are different opinions about the origin of April Fool's Day. Tracing back to the origin of April Fool's Day, there are about the following:
1, 1564, the French king Charles IX decided to adopt the newly reformed calendar-Gregorian calendar (that is, the current universal solar calendar), with 1 month 1 day as the beginning of the year, which changed the previous April 1 day as the beginning of the New Year. However, some old-school people are opposed to this reform, and still send New Year gifts on April 1 day according to the old calendar to celebrate the New Year.
Advocates of reform mocked these practices of the old school, giving them fake gifts on April 1 and inviting them to a fake party. Since then, April 1 day has spread to play tricks on people. 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 then it was brought to America by early immigrants from Britain.
2. According to the research of British historians, the origin of "April Fool's Day" comes from the words of "reaching the other side" in Indian Buddhism. In the encyclopedia of the British, it is recorded that "April Fool's Day" was a lying festival that appeared after the religious revolution in the 15th 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 1st every year. The subjects were so frightened that they took pleasure in telling lies and making fun of them 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".
3. It is said that about 1,650 years after Adam, the ancestor of mankind, God destroyed the world with floods, but only Noah, the descendant of Adam's third son, Huide, was left behind. He saved the lives of a family with a man-made ship.
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. Therefore, future generations think that doing something meaningless on this day is just like a white dove doing something for nothing, and its behavior is stupid. It is the origin of April Fool's Day.
4. According to the records of ancient Rome, Rome held the "Manjiang Club" in early April every year. In one year, Bailo Sabina, the daughter of the dominant god Shirley, met Prado, the king of hades, 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 the two of them returned to the underworld, Prado sent the ghosts in the underworld to giggle to fool Shirley, but Shirley was fooled, and she followed the source of the sound.
Therefore, they regard the annual "Manjiang Meeting" as "April Fool's Day".
5. According to Christians, "April Fool's Day" is to commemorate the day of Jesus' crucifixion. Before Jesus was crucified, he was forced to run around. Later generations used April 1 to commemorate his innocent crucifixion, which actually contained the significance of vigilance.
6. April 1st was originally the New Year's Day of the old European calendar. Later, France first adopted the new calendar, and all the congratulations of the old New Year were unified and implemented on January 1st of the new calendar.
However, the custom of celebrating the New Year in the old calendar has been used for a long time, and there is no way to forget it for a while. Therefore, they will make all kinds of hypocritical gifts or banquets on the first day of April in the new calendar to make a smile. Later it evolved into "April Fool's Day".
Another way of saying this is to adopt the new school of the new calendar, deliberately playing tricks on the old school, especially giving gifts to the old school people in a hypocritical way on April 1. 1564, French king Charles IX decided to adopt a new method of chronology-Gregor calendar, with January 1st as the beginning of the year, which changed the previous calendar with April 1st as the beginning of the New Year. During the implementation of the new calendar, many stubborn conservatives in various places still followed the old calendar and refused to update it.
They still give gifts to each other and organize activities to celebrate the New Year on April 1st. People who support the new law make a great mockery of this perverse move. On April 1st, they gave fake gifts to the die-hards, invited them to a fake celebration, and called these fooled people "April fools" and "fish on the hook".
Later, they fooled each other on this day, and it became a custom over time.
7. April Fool's Day is similar to the fun festival in ancient Rome (Hilaria, March 25th) and the Joy Festival in India (holi, until March 3rd1Sunday). The timing seems to be related to the "vernal equinox" (March 2 1 day). At this time, the weather often changes suddenly, just like nature is fooling human beings.
8. There is a saying that this custom originated from India's "Interpretation Festival". On March 3 1 every year, regardless of gender, age, you can play jokes on each other and fool each other for entertainment, which is similar to April Fool's Day.