1 1. 1 What festival is it?
1 1 month 1 day in the west is Halloween.
Halloween is a traditional western festival-Ghost Festival. On 1 1 month 1 day every year. 1October 3 1 day is Halloween, usually called Halloween (Halloween). Legend has it that all ghosts will come to the world on the same day and dress themselves up as ghosts to avoid being taken away by ghosts. Although Halloween is a custom celebration abroad, it is impressive that people will go door-to-door to ask for candy and trick or treat, which is the most popular among children.
Custom of Halloween
Make faces
Halloween costumes are not just monotonous GREAT GHOST kids. To make the simplest ghost costume, put a white sheet on your head, dig two holes to leave your eyes, and hide a fluffy rabbit between your hat and your head for later use. Or wearing a pumpkin hat, children wear white clothes and trousers, and then tie a flashlight on their heads behind them to dress up as little angels; There are also parents who dress their children up as their favorite cartoon images.
Trick or treat
Trick or treat is a unique custom of Halloween, mainly among children. During Halloween, children will dress themselves up in various ways, and then go out with a pumpkin lantern to ask for candy. The host will try his best to trick or treat the children if they don't. Punish you in various ways, such as dumping garbage in your house and so on, until you are willing to give them candy. (Be sure to give it! )
Bobbing for apples
"Bite an Apple" The most popular game on Halloween is "Bite an Apple". 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.
What is the symbol of Halloween?
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 well-known symbol of Halloween. In Britain and Ireland, locals used to light candles in hollowed-out turnips to make jack-o'-lanterns, but immigrants to the United States soon used pumpkins instead, because pumpkins are bigger and easier to carve patterns on. Many families carve scary faces on pumpkins and put them on the class at the gate. Traditionally, this is to scare away demons or monsters.
Pumpkins are orange, so orange has become a traditional Halloween color. Carving pumpkin lanterns with pumpkins is also a Halloween tradition, and its history can be traced back to Ireland. Legend has it that a man named Jack was so stingy that he couldn't go to heaven after death, and because he made fun of the devil, he couldn't go to hell, so he had to wander around with lanterns until the day of judgment. Thus, 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 with turnips, beets or potatoes to represent Jack holding lanterns. This is the origin of Jack-o'-lantern. After the Irish moved to the United States, they began to carve pumpkins, because pumpkins were more abundant than turnips in autumn in the United States. Now, if people hang pumpkin 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 a jack-o-lantern people often put candles or some sweets in it.
Why do you eat candy on Halloween?
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.
Trickortreat translated into Chinese is a trick or a treat. If the host doesn't give the child candy, the child will play tricks near his home, because it is a holiday, of course, no one cares, but in order to satisfy the children and match the festive atmosphere, every family will prepare candy for the children who come to the door on Halloween.