in western countries, on October 31st every year, there is a Halloween, which is interpreted as "The eve of All Saints'Day" in the dictionary and translated into Chinese as Halloween night.
People have some perceptual knowledge about Halloween: they know that during Halloween, many public places and even home courtyards will be decorated with many decorations, such as all kinds of ghosts, pumpkin lanterns, black cats and witches' brooms; Children will put on different Halloween costumes every year and go door-to-door begging for candy with baskets of pumpkin lanterns, saying it is "trick or treak". Besides, do you want to know more? Here we briefly introduce the origin and customs of Halloween.
First, the origin of Halloween:
The most legendary version of the origin of Halloween believes that it originated from ancient western European countries before the birth of Christ, mainly including Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The ancient Western Europeans in these places are called druitt people. Druitt's New Year is on November 1st, New Year's Eve. People in druitt make young people gather in groups, wear all kinds of weird masks and carry carved radish lanterns (pumpkin lanterns are a late custom, and there were no pumpkins in ancient western Europe), and they wander among villages. At that time, it was actually a celebration of autumn harvest; It is also said to be "Ghost Festival". It is said that the souls of those who died in that year will visit the world on the eve of Halloween. It is said that people should let the visiting ghosts see a good harvest and show rich hospitality to them. All bonfires and lights, in order to scare away ghosts, also illuminate the route for ghosts and guide them to return.
In medieval Central Europe, there was a history of Christianity destroying pagans. However, the sacrificial ceremony before New Year's Eve has never really been eliminated, but it has appeared in the form of witchcraft. This is why we still have traces of witches' brooms, black cats, spells and so on in Halloween.
Second, the generation of the word Halloween:
Many ethnic groups have celebration parties on Halloween, which are also called "All Hallow E'en", "The Eve of All Hallows", "Hallows e 'en" or "The eve of All Saintas'Day". In the end, the convention evolved into "Halloween", and the Chinese translation became Halloween night.
Third, the legend of "Trick or treat":
It is said that the custom of children dressing up and asking for candy from house to house today originated in Ireland. Irish pagans in ancient Western Europe believed that on Halloween, ghosts would gather near their homes and receive banquets. Therefore, after the "banquet", the villagers dressed up as ghosts and spirits and wandered outside the village to guide the ghosts away to avoid evil spirits and disasters. At the same time, the villagers also pay attention to some fruits and other foods in the front yard and back yard, and feed the ghosts enough so as not to let them hurt people and animals or plunder other crops. Later, this custom continued, and it became a joke for children to make fun of the ungrateful family.
There are at least two versions of the pumpkin lantern. One is that people hollowed out pumpkins and carved faces and lit candles to disperse ghosts; The other is that the ghost lit a candle, trying to trick people into following the ghost, so people carved a mocking face on the surface of the pumpkin to tease the ghost: Hum! Only a fool will be fooled by you. Legend has it that because Jack, an Irishman, was the first to use pumpkins, people also called Jack-O-Lantern as a grimace pumpkin lantern.
Fourth, the current Halloween
Today, Halloween has completely lost its religious superstition. It has become a program for children and a program for young people's masquerade parties.
The society has been giving positive guidance to festival activities: adults are required to educate children not to do threatening pranks, and adults are also required to take their children out with them (generally, adults park their cars on the roadside and children knock on the door to beg for candy). Adults should ask children to go only to houses with festive decorations and lights at the door, otherwise they will not be disturbed. In addition, in the process of begging for sugar, you must always stand at the gate and wait, and you are not allowed to enter the house. The sugar you get back must be inspected by Jiaotong University before you can eat it. Families who receive children are also required not to give home-made food or unpackaged food.
Holiday arrangements on public occasions and around the home are voluntary. The grimace pumpkin lantern, white net black spider, etc. are all holiday decorations, and there is no frightening ghost color at all. Some female students will buy a pair of pumpkin or ghost skull earrings to wear at this time. If the layout of any house is too horrible, it will be stopped by the relevant parties, and the media will expose it and let the public blame it.
Halloween costumes are full of people, not monotonous GREAT GHOST kids. There are many channels to teach people how to make Halloween costumes. For example, to make the simplest ghost suit, put a white sheet on your head. Don't forget to buckle two holes to leave your eyes. If you want to play a magician, put on black trousers and a black hat, and hide a fluffy rabbit between the hat and the top of your head. Also teach adults how to dress up their children as little angels, white clothes and trousers, and then how to tie a flashlight on their heads from behind; They also teach how to dress children up as their favorite cartoon characters. Of course, businessmen in the clothing and props industries have more articles to do.
schools don't have holidays on Halloween. Sometimes schools come forward to organize parties, and sometimes students who are unwilling to be lonely will host small parties themselves; It is a popular custom for friends and family to send cards to wish each other a happy Halloween every October. Nowadays, the development of Internet makes it more convenient and economical to send Halloween cards, and some websites have designed all kinds of Halloween cards with sound animation effects, such as www.cardmaster.com, for everyone to use for free.
In a word, Halloween has become a very common seasonal festival for westerners. Many people regard this as the end of autumn and the arrival of winter. After Halloween, people began to look forward to Thanksgiving, Christmas and even the New Year.
a brief introduction to the planning of Halloween activities
The bar is on fire
It is impossible to really make an event by one-time preparation. If you want to seize a moment's opportunity, you must do your best to create an instant opportunity. Following this principle, I conceived a set of progressive activity arrangement schemes. The program is divided into two stages: the promotion stage and the arrangement stage of Halloween activities. The publicity stage can be divided into external publicity (foreigners) and internal publicity (China people). Internal propaganda should be divided into three steps. The first step, what is the real Halloween (Passion Holy Spirit Night); The second step is the temptation of the wolf; The third step is the bloody arrow. The arrangement of Halloween activities can also be divided into waiting; White reverie; China and South Korea make friends; Uncover the mystery; Carnival night!
First of all, the publicity part:
1. External publicity, we mainly target Korean students from NTU, NTU and NTU. The method of publicity is very simple, it is face-to-face communication to make them interested in our Halloween. The focus of marketing to them is China-style Halloween, and tell them that they can make friends in China through this activity. But there may be some difficulties in communication, but it should be overcome. Equipment is needed at this stage, just a box of 111 to 211 business cards. There are no other requirements for business cards, but the traffic route of the Tang Dynasty must be printed on the back and indicated in words. If you find it so troublesome, you can also print leaflets in Korean and send the message to Koreans by sending orders. But if so, the effect may not be as obvious as that of face-to-face persuasion, and the cost will be much higher. Pay attention to face-to-face persuasion. When he says he wants to go, give him a seat number on his business card, which will create a predetermined pressure on them, so that the possibility of going that day will be even greater. There shouldn't be too many Koreans because the seats are limited. But in fact, the more people go, the greater the sensational effect.
2. Publicize
A internally, and launch the first publicity concept, that is, to publicize that the Tang Dynasty will create a passionate Halloween and launch the slogan of spending Halloween with foreigners. Form of publicity, dispatch. Mainly in the new culture Starbucks Pizza Hut in Binjiang Road. Let people know that the Tang Dynasty will prepare a unique Halloween activity. Don't mention what kind of activities, set suspense.
B, the temptation of wolves, this stage is to attract attention in a mysterious way. From the week before Halloween, let the Tang party hear the howl of the wolf, and it is best to clearly introduce it to the ears of pedestrians. And print a propaganda bomb named Who's Howling, which once again sets a suspense for people, so that people who get the leaflet want to ask what is howling in the Tang Dynasty and what kind of Holy Spirit Night will be held in the Tang Dynasty. The billing location remains the same, but the way has changed. Find one or two agents in Binjiang Road and New Culture respectively, and send orders to customers who patronize his store while selling clothes, and need tapes to create artistic conception. As a reward for them, it can be a free PARTY drink delivery to the clerk. Even if it is economical, the effect must be good.
C, the bloody arrow, this idea is sensational, but it is definitely on the edge of the law, and it is difficult to implement and has certain risks. But if it is true, I believe it will definitely attract many people. The plan is very simple. Two or three nights before Halloween, draw a giant arrow with red paint on the Weijin section opposite the Tang Hui. When people go to work the next morning, they can clearly see the red arrow pointing at the Tang Hui. The next afternoon, leaflets were distributed. The content of the leaflets was an exaggerated description of the sudden appearance of arrows in an outsider's tone, which made people feel mysterious again. At the same time, as in the last publicity, corresponding tapes were needed to inform people of the phenomenon in the form of stories.
The publicity work before the launch of all activities comes to an end here. Of course, due to the unpredictability of the future, it may change with the evolution of things during the activity.
the arrangement of the day's activities can be divided into five stages: waiting for China and South Korea to make friends before the activities. Waiting before an activity refers to having a concept of waiting before the activity starts, and making use of people's curiosity. Delaying the admission time, I think the opening time of the night should be adjusted to after eight o'clock, and the climax of the event will be when the bell strikes twelve o'clock on Halloween. If the waiting time is too long, it is possible that the curiosity of the guests will gradually decline and be replaced by boredom. Give each guest a simple mask before entering the bar.
After entering the bar, the first thing that enters your eyes is that the bar is wrapped in a white curtain, and there is the same howling sound as it was a few days ago. The sound processing must be true, and a wolf's shadow can be vaguely seen from the white curtain. Once again, people feel fantastic and their curiosity increases! The DJ announced that the highest-spending guests will ((hug)) leave a mysterious gift carefully prepared by the Tang Dynasty before twelve o'clock today!
When making friends between China and South Korea, Korean guests have the seat number distributed to them. When the waiter takes the seat, he takes it directly to the predetermined position. China guests can take them to the table adjacent to Korean guests when they enter the door, so as to facilitate their communication. After the table is full of guests asking for drinks, DJ shouted slogans and asked the guests to change their seats at will. DJ should emphasize that all the people who came to the Tang party tonight are friends and brothers and sisters, encouraging everyone to change seats. Play light music and let the guests communicate with each other. It's best not to dim the lights at this time. DJ should tell the time and remind everyone that Tang will give you more and more surprises as time goes by!
Mystery revealed (climax) At 12 o'clock, DJ announced that everyone would hold their breath, and the mystery would be revealed immediately. Stop the music, and DJ should deal with the gloomy voice at this time! The lights turn off gradually! The first time I turned on the light, there was still nothing in the bar, which made some ups and downs for people's psychology! The DJ explained that it was a pure mistake, and he had to say it in a funny tone, causing a hilarious laugh on the court. The lights began to go out one by one again, and when it was completely dark, several tiny rays of light were gradually emitted from the back room. There seemed to be many white shadows floating around the darkness, and the light moved to the bar and disappeared into the bar. The laser light suddenly turned on, shone in the direction of the bar, and immediately went out, but I have seen a lot of things standing on the bar to dress up as a virgin. The DJ plays a horrible piece of music. The under-stage light in the bar is turned on and shines on the people standing on the stage for close-ups. Slowly, the surrounding lights came on. I saw all the people on the stage covered with a white cloth full of blood. At this moment, the music started. People on the stage took off their white cloth, some wore modern clothes, and some wore Tang dresses. The DJ shouted slogans, and there was a personalized dance on the stage. After the dance, he walked off the stage and stood around the bar. DJ announced the highest consumer at present, and a beautiful woman came out of the back room. DJ announced that today's mystery prize is Miss XX. The beauty stepped onto the stage, smiled at the winning guests and groped in the handbag (big). Suddenly, I held out a puppy, which is the mysterious prize tonight! Once again, it caused a hilarious laugh on the field. After laughing, the DJ shouted slogans, HAPPY Halloween! The dance begins.
DJ's atmosphere is the key!
note: during the whole activity, please take time to take photos of the guests, and please contact us so that you can send photos later. Let the guests realize that the sincerity of the Tang meeting is not available to others, and ask them to remember this activity deeply, so as to lay the foundation for becoming a tourist source of the Tang meeting in the future!
Small game
1. Idiom linking is to say an idiom first, and each group or person uses the last word to connect the idiom ... Just watch the punishment for those who can't connect, which is quite interesting.
2. Let's play a BINGO game. A piece of paper. 111 questions are 11× 11. First, answer a line or a column of prizes. The question is for the class. . . . . .
4. Pull a lot of ropes in the middle of the venue, and then select some people so that they can't touch the ropes. Then these people blindfold and remove the ropes, and then watch their wonderful performances, but they can only be used once, and it will be boring for everyone to know.
5. Dance. I just learned a "court circle dance" (which I named myself) from a foreign teacher two days ago, which is very suitable for everyone.
6. Write a note to send a blessing (write it anonymously on the note and hand it over to the host, then ask everyone to take turns and read the blessing aloud. )
7. Prepare some pieces of paper in advance, on which various occupations or sports are written. Then let everyone smoke one separately, and don't let others know. Then perform separately, can't talk, and let others guess what occupation it is.
8. Divide into two groups, and also prepare some small pieces of paper with some movie names written on them, preferably action movies or special ones, and then draw lots in groups to let the other party guess. Matrix, Spiderman and Super Man are all very interesting
9. Grab the chair. Divide into two groups, each group has 6-8 people, and the chair is less than the number of people. Then everyone turns around the chair and grabs the seat when they hear it. One person is eliminated in each round, and the final is 1/8 in turn, and the last is left.