Halloween is a good time for children to indulge in fun. When night falls, the children put on colorful makeup clothes and various monster masks. Many children also carry a Jack-o-lantern. Jack lanterns are made by hollowing out pumpkins, inserting a small candle inside, and carving smiling eyes and a big mouth on the outside. After the candle is lit, people can easily see this naive smiling face carved on the melon from a far away place. In the moonlight, the children came to their neighbors and shouted "TRICK-OR-TREAT" in a threatening way. It means "trick or treat." If they are not entertained, naughty children will soap the handles on people's doors or color others and cats. These little pranks often make adults laugh and cry. Most families prepare candy in advance to entertain these naive little guests. Many adults dress themselves up as children or animals or various shapes, gather in the square, or swim in the streets in groups, singing and dancing and joking with each other.
The custom of "trick or treat" originated in Ireland. Hundreds of years ago, Irish farmers went door-to-door to get food before Halloween to prepare for the festival. For those who give generously, they sincerely bless them; For stingy people, they intimidate and curse.
Halloween used to be the most important festival in Ireland and Scotland. /kloc-At the end of 0/9 century, Irish immigrants brought the custom of Halloween to the United States, and later introduced it to Colombia and other Latin American countries. Today, Halloween is much more lively in America than in Britain. By then, many schools and families will organize colorful parties and entertainment activities for children. Children decorate the venue by themselves, decorate the environment, and then dress up as witches and pirates, perform various programs or play games under the orange light. One of the most popular games is "bite the 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 hands. Whoever bites first will be the winner.
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.
The legend of "trick or treat":
The custom that children dress up and ask for candy from house to house today is said to have 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.
The origin of pumpkin lantern
As for the pumpkin lantern, there are at least two versions. 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.