Introduction to Halloween[edit this paragraph] October 31st every year is the traditional Western "Ghost Festival" - Halloween.

However, the atmosphere of this day is far from as "creepy" as its name sounds.

Whenever Halloween comes, children will eagerly put on colorful costumes and strange masks, carry a "jack o'lantern" and go from house to house, asking for holiday gifts from adults.

The most well-known symbols of Halloween are these two - the bizarre "jack o'lantern" and the "trick-or-treat" prank.

The "jack o'lantern" looks very cute and the method is very simple.

Hollow out the pumpkin, then carve smiling eyes and a big mouth on the outside, insert a candle into the melon, light it, and people can see this innocent smiling face from a long distance away.

This is children's favorite toy.

However, the highlight of Halloween is still at the dining table. You must prepare delicious food to entertain the "little ghosts" who come to cause trouble, and you must also decorate your dining table for this special holiday.

Don’t let your guests underestimate you!

On the most "haunted" night of the year, all kinds of monsters, pirates, alien visitors and witches come out one after another.

Before the Christian era, the Celts held ceremonies at the end of summer to thank God and the sun for their blessings.

The soothsayers of that time lit and performed witchcraft to drive away the monsters and monsters that were said to be wandering around.

Later, the harvest festival celebrated by the Romans with nuts and apples merged with the Celtic October 31st.

In the Middle Ages, people put on animal-shaped costumes and scary masks to drive away ghosts in the night on Halloween.

Although Christianity later replaced Celtic and Roman religious practices, early customs remained.

Nowadays, children wear various costumes and masks to participate in Halloween dances with a joking mentality. Paper witches, black cats, ghosts and corpses are often hung on the walls around these dances, and teeth are hung in front of windows and doorways.

A jack-o'-lantern with a slit mouth or a hideous appearance.

Children also often try to bite the hanging apples.

The origin of Halloween [edit this paragraph] There are many versions of the legend about the origin of Halloween. The most common belief is that it originated from the ancient Western European countries before the birth of Christ, mainly including Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The ancient Western Europeans in these places were called Druids.

The Druids' New Year is on November 1st. On New Year's Eve, the Druids ask young people to gather in groups, wearing various weird masks and carrying carved carrot lanterns (pumpkin lanterns are a later custom in ancient Western Europe).

There were no pumpkins at first) and they wandered among the villages.

This was actually an autumn harvest celebration at the time; it was also said to be the "Ghost Festival". Legend has it that the souls of people who died that year would visit the world on the eve of Halloween. It is said that people should let the visiting ghosts see the perfect harvest and present it to the ghosts.

Give a hearty treat.

All bonfires and lights are there to scare away ghosts, but also to illuminate the route for ghosts to guide them back.

In Central Europe in the Middle Ages, there was a history of Christianity destroying pagans.

However, the sacrificial celebrations before New Year's Eve have never really been eliminated, but appear in the form of witchcraft.

This is why our current Halloween still has traces of witches' brooms, black cats, spells and so on.

There are two legends about the origin of Halloween: the first one. More than 2,000 years ago, the European Catholic Church designated November 1 as “ALL HALLOWS DAY” (ALL HALLOWS DAY).

"HALLOW" means saint.

Legend has it that since 500 BC, the Celts (CELTS) living in Ireland, Scotland and other places moved this festival forward by one day, namely October 31st.

They believe that this day is the official end of summer, the beginning of the new year and the beginning of the harsh winter.

At that time, people believed that the souls of their deceased friends would return to their former homes on this day to look for souls in the living, so that they could be reborn. This was the only hope for rebirth after death.

The living people are afraid that the dead souls will come to seize their lives, so people put out the furnace fires and candlelights on this day so that the dead souls cannot find the living people. They also dress up as monsters and monsters to scare away the souls of the dead.

Afterwards, they will light the fire candle again and start their life in the new year.

Legend has it that the Celtic tribes at that time still had the custom of killing living people to pay homage to the dead on October 31st.

By the 1st century AD, the Romans who occupied the Celtic tribes' territories gradually accepted the custom of Halloween, but since then abolished the barbaric practice of burning human beings as sacrifices to the dead.

The Romans combined harvest festivals with Celtic rituals, wearing scary masks and dressing up as animals or ghosts in order to drive away the demons wandering around them.

This is why most people around the world celebrate Halloween today by dressing up in weird and weird ways.

As time goes by, the meaning of Halloween gradually changes, becoming positive and happy, and the festive meaning becomes mainstream.

The idea that dead souls find substitutes to return to the world has gradually been abandoned and forgotten.

Today, images and pictures that symbolize Halloween, such as witches and black cats, mostly have friendly, cute and funny faces.

Another version of the second legend about the origin of Halloween believes that it originated from the ancient Western European countries before the birth of Christ, mainly including Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The ancient Western Europeans in these places were called Druids.