The American Ghost Day is Halloween, which is celebrated on November 1 every year.
In Western countries, on October 31 every year, there is a "Halloween", the Chinese usually called: Halloween night. Halloween is a traditional holiday in the West, but also the most "haunted" night of the year, so it is also called "Ghost Festival", foreigners can always play to the crazy, full of street "live haunted"; in China, although there is no crazyparty dress up as a ghost, but there are always some fun little details can make people laugh, the Golden Eagle Xinjiekou store, Golden Eagle Heaven and Earth has created a strong "Ghost Festival" atmosphere, in Nanjing, we will also be In Nanjing, we will also experience some fun in the ordinary life because of pumpkin lamps and ghost masks.
However, the main event of Halloween is still on the table, you have to prepare the food to entertain those "little ghosts", but also dress up your table for this special festival. Don't let your guests underestimate you!
The most "haunted" night of the year is filled with all kinds of demons, pirates, extraterrestrial visitors and witches. Before the Christian era, the Celts held ceremonies at Summer's Eve to thank the gods and the sun for their bounty. Soothsayers of the time lit and practiced witchcraft to ward off the demons and monsters that were said to be roaming around. Later the Roman harvest festival, celebrated with nuts and apples, merged with the Celtic October 31st. In the Middle Ages, people dressed up in animal-shaped costumes and scary masks in an attempt to ward off the ghosts and goblins of the night on Halloween Eve. Despite the later replacement of Celtic and Roman religious practices, the early customs have survived. Nowadays, children wear costumes and masks as a joke to Halloween dances, which are often surrounded by papier-maché witches, black cats, ghosts, and skeletons hanging from the walls, and pumpkin lanterns with grimacing or repulsive faces hanging from windows and doorways. Children often try to bite into hanging apples.
The origin of Halloween
The most popular version of the origin of Halloween is that it originated in the countries of Ancient Western Europe before the birth of Christ, mainly Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The ancient Western Europeans in these places were called Druids. Druidic New Year in November 1, New Year's Eve, the Druids let the young people set the team, wearing a variety of strange masks, carrying a carved turnip lamp (pumpkin lamp system of the later custom, the earliest of the ancient Western Europe did not have a pumpkin), they wandered through the villages. This was actually a celebration of the fall harvest; it is also said to be the "Ghost Festival", the legend says that people who died that year, the soul will visit the world on the eve of Halloween, and it is said that people should let the ghosts of the visit to see a successful harvest and the ghosts to present a bountiful hospitality. All bonfires and lights are used to scare the ghosts away, but also to light their way and guide them back.
In medieval central Europe, there was a history of Christianity destroying the yi. But the ritual celebrations before New Year's Eve were never really eliminated, though in the form of witchcraft. That's why we still have traces of witches' brooms, black cats, and spells in our current Halloween.
The origin of the word Halloween
Many peoples have celebrations and gatherings on the eve of Halloween, which are also called "AllHallowEen," "The Eve of AllHallows," "Halloween," "Halloween," "Halloween," "Halloween," and "Halloween. It was also called "AllHallowEen", "TheEveofAllHallows", "Halloween", or "TheeveofAllSaintasDay". Eventually, the convention evolved into "Halloween", which translates to Halloween night.
The legend of "Trickortreat"
The custom of children dressing up in costumes and going from house to house asking for candy is said to have originated in Ireland. The Irish yippies of ancient Western Europe believed that on Halloween night, ghosts would gather around homes and be treated to a feast. Therefore, after the "banquet", the villagers dressed up as ghosts and elves, wandering outside the village, guiding the ghosts to leave, to avoid evil spirits and disasters. At the same time, the villagers also paid attention to the arrangement of some fruits and other foodstuffs in front of and behind their houses, so as to feed the ghosts and spirits without letting them harm human beings and animals or plunder other harvests. This custom has continued since then and has become a joke for children to make fun of ungenerous families.
There are also at least two accounts of pumpkin lamps. One says that people hollowed out the pumpkin and carved on the face of the ghost to light a candle to dispel the ghosts; the other says that the ghosts light a candle, trying to trick people into following the ghosts, so people carved on the surface of the pumpkin with a mocking face, to tease the ghosts: Humph! Fools will fall for your trick. Legend has it that the first pumpkin to be used was an Irishman named Jack, so people also called the ghostly pumpkin lamp Jack-O-Lantern.
Nowadays, Halloween
Halloween has been passed down to the present day has no religious superstitions, it has become a children's program, but also the young people's masquerade show.
Society has also been positive about the holiday: adults have been asked to teach children to refrain from frightening pranks, and adults have been asked to take their children out with them (usually an adult sets up a car and parks it by the side of the road, while a child knocks on the door and asks for candy). Adults should ask their children to only go to homes with festive decorations and lights at the door, or else not to bother them. In addition, the child must always stand at the front door and wait for the candy, not enter the house, and the candy must be inspected by an adult before it is eaten. The people who receive the children are also asked not to give home-made food or unpackaged food.
Public **** occasions and holiday decorations around the home are voluntary. Ghostly pumpkin lights, black spiders with white webs, etc., are all festive decorations, and there is no longer any horrifying ghostly colors. Some schoolgirls even buy a pair of pumpkin or skeleton earrings to wear at this time of year. If any of the decoration is overly scary, it will be stopped by the authorities, and the media will also expose it to public censure.
Halloween costumes, too, are a lot more than the monotonous big ghosts and little ghosts. There are many outlets that teach people how to make Halloween costumes. For example, the production of the simplest ghost costume with a white sheet on top of the head, do not forget to buckle two holes to stay out of the eyes is; if you want to play the magician, put on a black coat and black pants, and then put on a black bowler hat, and between the bowler hat and the top of the head to hide a fluffy bunny standby; but also to teach adults how to dress up their children as cherubs, white clothes and white pants, and then from the back of how to tie a flashlight in the head; there are also teach how to dress up children into their favorite cartoon image. Of course, the costume and props industry merchants, there are more articles to do.
Schools are closed on Halloween. Sometimes the school organizes a party, and sometimes students host their own parties; and sending cards to friends and family to wish them a happy Halloween has become a popular custom every October. Nowadays, the development of the Internet has made it more convenient and economical to send Halloween cards, and some websites have designed a variety of Halloween cards with sound and animation effects.
In short, Halloween has become a very common seasonal holiday in the West. Many people see it as the end of fall and the arrival of winter. Once Halloween is over, people start to look forward to Thanksgiving, Christmas and even New Year.