The abbreviation of "even"), also known as Halloween, the eve of all saints' day, is on1October 3 1 day every year, which refers to Halloween (All Hallow's.
The eve of Day), similar to Christmas Eve, is called "Christmas"
Eve is a traditional festival of the Catholic Church, which is mainly popular in English-speaking areas, such as North America and the British Isles, followed by Australia and New Zealand. That night, children will put on makeup clothes and masks and collect candy from house to house.
The next day, a major mass was held to remember the saints.
Halloween custom-trick or treat.
An interesting content of Halloween is "Trick or treat", but this custom did not originate in Ireland, but began in the Christian church in Europe in the ninth century. At that time, 1 1 2nd of the month was called by Christians.
“ALL SOULS
DAY "(the day of all souls). On this day, believers trudged in the backcountry, begging from village to village for "bread of the soul" made of flour and raisins. It is said that people who donate cakes believe in the prayers of the church monks, hoping to get God's protection and let the dead relatives enter heaven as soon as possible. This tradition of begging from house to house has evolved into a game in which children carry pumpkin lanterns from house to house to beg for candy. When they meet, the children dressed as ghosts and elves invariably threaten to make trouble if they don't please eat, but the host naturally dares not neglect and repeatedly says, "Please eat! Please eat! " At the same time, put the candy into the big pockets that children carry with them. There is also a story about pumpkin carving as a lantern. This is from ancient Ireland. The story is about a man named
JACK's people are drunk and love pranks. One day, JACK tricked the devil into climbing a tree, and then carved a cross on the stump, threatening the devil not to come down, and then JACK
Just make a pact with the devil for three chapters, and let the devil promise to cast a spell so that JACK will never commit a crime and let him get down from the tree. JACK
After death, his soul can neither go to heaven nor go to hell, so his ghost has to wander between heaven and earth by a small candle.
Demons and ghosts dance
In the ancient Irish legend, this little candle was placed in a hollowed-out radish and was called "JACK LANTERNS", while the ancient radish lamp evolved to this day, and it was made of pumpkin.
Jack-O-Lantern It is said that soon after Irish people arrived in America, they found that pumpkins were superior to radishes in terms of source and carving, so pumpkins became Halloween pets.
Halloween is a good time for children to have fun. In the eyes of children, it is a festival full of mystery. As night falls, the children can't wait to put on colorful makeup clothes, put on strange masks, put on a "jack lamp" and run out to play. The "Jack-o 'lantern" looks very cute. The way to do it is to hollow out the pumpkin, carve smiling eyes and a big mouth on the outside, then put a candle in the pumpkin and light it, so that people can see this naive smiling face in a far distance.
After packing up, groups of children dressed as monsters ran to the neighbor's door with "Jack-o-lanterns" in their hands, threatening to shout "trick or treat" and "money or food". If adults don't treat them with candy or change, those naughty children will do what they say: OK, if you don't treat them, I'll play a trick on you. Sometimes they soap other people's doorknobs and sometimes color other people's cats. These little pranks often make adults laugh and cry. Of course, most families are very happy to entertain these naive little guests. Therefore, on Halloween, children always have full stomachs and pockets. The most popular game on Halloween is "biting apples". In the game, people let the apples float in a basin filled with water, and then let the children bite the apples with their mouths without using their hands. Whoever bites first will be the winner.
Mask makeup
In ancient times, if there was a drought or other major disasters, people would wear ugly masks, because they were afraid of evil spirits wandering outside at night. If they had to go out at night, they would wear masks or decorate themselves with animal fur, hoping that evil spirits would not recognize them or be scared away by ugly masks.
Later, the religious meaning of fearing ghosts and gods gradually became thinner, and slowly children began to wear clothes of ghosts and elves and go out to scare their neighbors trick or.
Treat (trick or treat), a fun custom of asking adults to treat them to candy.
Jack-o'-Lantern
There is also the custom of carving jack-o-lanterns on Halloween, which is an interesting Irish folklore. It is said that there was an alcoholic named Jack. One day, he invited evil spirits to drink with him, but after drinking, he had no money to pay the bill. He designed to turn evil spirits into sixpence.
(six pennies) came to pay for the wine, but Jack didn't use it to pay for it. Instead, he used a piece of silver paper to keep the evil spirit from coming out.
The evil spirit begged Jack to let him out and promised not to frighten him or harass him, so Jack came out. On Halloween the next year, the evil spirit reached an agreement with Jack, promising not to harass him this year, but Jack died not long after. 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? Moreover, the road was so dark that Jack couldn't 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 could burn for a long time.
According to this legend, Irish people later made their so-called "Jack-o 'lanterns" with vegetable heads. However, when the immigrants arrived in the United States, they found that pumpkins in the New World were more common than vegetable heads, so they carved all kinds of faces with pumpkins instead, and then put candles in them. This is the origin of the "pumpkin lantern".