万圣节的英文介绍

万圣节的英文介绍

Halloween is an autumn holiday that Americans celebrate every year. It means "holy evening," and it comes every October 31, the evening before All Saints' Day. However, it is not really a church holiday, it is a holiday for children mainly.

Every autumn, when the vegetables are ready to eat, children pick large orange pumpkins. Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put a burning candle inside. It looks as if there were a person looking out of the pumpkin! These lights are called jack-o'-lanterns, which means "Jack of the lantern".he Celtic people, who lived more than 2000 years ago feared the evening of Oct. 31 more than any other day of the year. It was the eve of their festival of Samhain. Samhain was a joyful harvest festival that marked the death of the old year and the beginning of a new one. The day itself was a time for paying homage to the sun god Baal who had provided the people with the ripened grain for use in the upcoming winter. Come evening evil spirits were everywhere. Charms and spells were said to have more power on the eve of Samhain. Several rituals were performed by the Celtic priests, Druids, to appease the Lord of the Dead.

Halloween is on November 1st every year, from the ancient Celtic New Year Festival, it is time to avoid sacrifice ghosts, ghost interference at the same time, also to worship ancestors and good spirit in order to survive the winter, is the western traditional festivals. The children wear costumes, masks, from door to door collecting sweets. Mainly popular in the English-speaking world, such as the British Isles and North America, followed by Australia and new zealand.