Lead: Halloween is a good time for children to indulge in fun. In the eyes of children, this is a festival full of mystery. As night falls, children can't wait to put on colorful clothes and strange masks and go to every house to beg for candy. For children, this is a very interesting festival, so why hang pumpkin lanterns on Halloween? The story of Halloween pumpkin lantern? Come and have a look with me.

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Halloween is a good time for children to have fun. In the eyes of children, this is a festival full of mystery. As night falls, the children can't wait to put on colorful costumes, strange masks and a "Jack-o-lantern" and run out to play. "Jack-o 'lantern" looks very cute. The way is to hollow out the pumpkin, carve smiling eyes and a big mouth on the outside, and then put a candle in the pumpkin and light it, so that people can see this innocent smiling face from far away.

There is a custom of carving jack-o-lanterns on Halloween, which comes from an interesting Irish folklore. It is said that there is an alcoholic named Jack. One day, he invited the evil spirits to drink with him, but after drinking, he had no money to pay the bill. He designed to turn the evil spirits into sixpence to pay for the wine, but Jack didn't pay, but used a piece of silver paper to stop the evil spirits from coming out.

The evil spirit begged Jack to let him out and promised not to scare him or harass him, so Jack came out. The next Halloween, the evil spirit made an agreement with Jack, promising not to harass him this year, but Jack died soon. At this time, heaven refused to take him in, so Jack had to report to hell, but because the evil spirit had promised him not to harass him this year, he could not take him in.

You can't go to heaven or hell. What should Jack do? Besides, the road is too dark for Jack to find a way out. At this time, the evil spirit threw him a piece of red-hot coal so that he could see the road clearly in the dark hell. Jack put this small piece of charcoal ash in a vegetable head with many holes, so that it can burn for a long time.

According to this legend, the Irish later made what they called "Jack-o 'lanterns" from vegetable heads. However, when immigrants (Weibo) came to the United States, they found that pumpkins in the New World were more common than vegetable heads, so they carved various faces with pumpkins instead, and then put candles in them. This is the origin of "pumpkin lantern".

Now, if people hang jack-o-lanterns on the windows on Halloween night, it means that those who wear Halloween costumes can knock on the door and ask for candy. It is worth mentioning that because the pumpkin lantern is a symbol of Halloween and the pumpkin is orange, the symbolic color of Halloween is orange.

The story of Halloween pumpkin lantern

Legend has it that a man named Jack was so stingy that he couldn't go to heaven after death, and because he couldn't go to hell after playing tricks on the devil, he had to wander around with lanterns until the judgment day. Therefore, Jack and Jack-o-lantern became the symbols of cursed wandering souls. In order to scare away these wandering souls on Halloween, people carve terrible faces out of turnips, beets or potatoes to represent Jack holding lanterns. This is the origin of the ghost fire.

After the Irish moved to the United States, they began to carve pumpkins, because pumpkins are more abundant than turnips in autumn in the United States. Now, if people hang jack-o-lanterns on the windows on Halloween night, it means that those who wear Halloween costumes can knock on the door and ask for candy.

In the ancient Irish legend, this small candle was placed in a hollowed-out radish, which was called "Jack's lantern", while the ancient radish lantern evolved to today, and it was made of pumpkin lantern.

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The theme of Jack-o-lantern Halloween is ghosts, scary people, and things related to death, magic and monsters. Things usually associated with Halloween include ghosts, ghouls, witches, bats, black cats, owls, elves, zombies, skeletons and demons, as well as fictional characters such as vampires and Frankenstein.

Black and orange are the traditional colors of Halloween. Modern Halloween products also use a lot of purple, green and red. Autumn elements such as pumpkins and scarecrows have also become symbols of Halloween.

Jack lamp is the most famous symbol of Halloween. In Britain and Ireland, locals used to light candles in hollowed-out turnips to make jack-o'-lanterns, but American immigrants soon replaced them with pumpkins, because pumpkins are bigger and easier to carve patterns on. Many families carve scary faces on pumpkins and put them in class at the gate. Traditionally, this is to scare away demons or monsters.

Ghosts related to Halloween

ghost

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The Walking Dead

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vampire

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witch

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Frankenstein

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tool

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a coquettish young girl

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Water matrix

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Titan

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Lich

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fish

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The Headless Horseman

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Human skeleton

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