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What is Halloween about?
Halloween is a traditional festival in western countries every year. This night is a night that people think will be haunted, so it is also called "Ghost Festival". Chinese-speaking areas often mistake Halloween for Halloween. "Hallow" comes from Middle English halwen, which is close to the etymology of holy. In some areas of Scotland, England and Canada, Halloween is still called "All Hallow Mas", which means a Mass to be held in memory of all saints.

There are many versions about the origin of Halloween, and the one that spreads widely is that more than two thousand years ago, the Christian church in Europe designated 1 1 month 1 day as "ALL HALLOWSDAY". "HALLOW" means saint. Legend has it that since 500 BC, CELTS living in Ireland, Scotland and other places moved this festival forward by one day, that is,1October 3 1 day.

They think that this day is the day when summer officially ends, that is, the beginning of the new year and the beginning of the harsh winter. At that time, people believed that on this day, the dead soul of the deceased would return to the former residence to look for living beings, so as to be reborn, and this was the only hope for people to be reborn after death.

The living are afraid of the spirits of the dead to seize life, so people put out the fire and candlelight on this day, so that the spirits of the dead can't find the living, and they dress up as monsters to scare away the spirits of the dead. After that, they will rekindle the fire and candlelight and start a new year's life.