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Halloween is not just about dressing up! There are four allusions.
The origin of Halloween Halloween is actually a ghost festival in the west, just like our Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, they will dress up as ghosts and hold carnival parties everywhere. But do you know how Halloween came about?
Halloween originated from the Catholic Church, 1 65438+1October1is AllHallowsDay or AllSaint'sDay,165438+1October 2nd is AllSoul'sDay, also known as the day to remember the dead. In fact, as early as several centuries BC, Halloween on June 3rd/kloc-0th was the annual harvest festival of Celts (living in Scotland, Wales and Ireland), symbolizing the end of a year and the beginning of a new year. On this day every year, the Celts pay their respects to the sun god, because the sun god makes their grain harvest to cope with the coming winter!
But the scariest day of the year is the night of June 365438+1October 3 1. They believe that life in the world is dominated by gods, and Samhain, the god of death, will return to the world with the dead on this night, which is also the most powerful day for evil spirits. Legend has it that on this day every year, all the laws of time and space will fail, making the yin and yang worlds merge into one, between the living world and the dead world. It's very similar to the legend that we open the gate of hell in July of the lunar calendar.
On the nights of 10 and 3 1, the living Celts put out the fire in their own homes to avoid the search of souls, creating a cold and gloomy environment, and deliberately dressed themselves as monsters with costumes made of animal heads or fur, making terrible noises in their mouths in an attempt to scare away the souls, which also made the souls unable to tell who was alive, so they could not find the body body double. Besides, on that day, everyone will parade outside in strange clothes, hoping to scare away the ghosts outside. As long as after this night, the next day is Halloween, and everything will be calm.
In ancient times, in case of drought or other major disasters, people would wear ugly masks or decorate themselves with animal fur to scare away evil spirits who were still wandering outside late at night. Halloween cross-dressing is also to scare away ghosts or make them think they are of the same kind.
Trick or treat is an American custom. 165438+12 October is a festival for the church to mourn the dead. Christians will go to the village to beg for "bread of the soul", which is a square wild berry cake. When a kind family donates this cake, a Christian will pray for his dead relatives. At that time, people believed that even the prayers of strangers could help the transcendent dead go to heaven, so most people were willing to give this cake.
Later, the meaning of fear of ghosts and gods gradually faded. On Halloween night in modern America, people go to the streets to have fun and wear strange clothes. Children dressed as ghosts shout "trickortreat" at the door of each house, which is a custom of "blackmail" and has evolved into asking adults to treat them to candy.
The story of jack-o'-lantern and the custom of carving jack-o'-lantern on Halloween is an interesting Irish folklore. It is said that an alcoholic named Jack once designed to trick the devil into climbing a tree and carved a cross on the trunk to make the devil afraid to come down. As a result, the devil reached an agreement with him to ensure that he would never harass again, so that he could get away. After Jack died, heaven and hell refused him entry. The devil gave him a small piece of coal ash so that he could see clearly in the dark hell, so he put this small piece of coal ash in a vegetable head with many holes in it to make it burn longer.
This kind of lantern is called Jack-o-lantern, and Irish people always mention this kind of lantern when celebrating Halloween. Later, Scottish children imitated him, hollowing out turnips and putting candles on them; Irish people use potatoes or kohlrabi, while English people use beets. Later, they immigrated to America and found a more useful lantern-pumpkin! From then on, the Halloween decorations I saw became pumpkin lanterns!
Halloween Dress-up Traditional Halloween Dress-up As mentioned above, the ancient Scots and Irish thought that Halloween ghosts would come to the world, so they dressed up as ghosts and made them think of themselves as the same kind. The simplest costume is to dress up as a ghost with a piece of cloth with two holes cut. Traditional Halloween decorations include zombies, ghosts, witches and demons.
Today's Halloween costume has no religious superstition, but it is a children's festival and a good opportunity to hold a masquerade party. Everyone can give full play to their imagination and creativity and make the latest and most dazzling ghost shapes.
Moreover, in recent years, Halloween costumes are not limited to horror, and you can wear anything. Children can also dress up as angels, favorite cartoon characters, TV or movie stars, public figures and so on. For example, after 200 1, 9 1 1 was attacked, firefighters, police, etc. Became the goal of children; In 2004, many American children dressed up as Spider-Man, which was the most popular dress that year. On 20th/10th/4th last year, Annabel's ghost clothes or the most popular Princess Elsa clothes in Frozen were everywhere.
What about you? How do you want to play a costume party after telling the children the story of Halloween this year?
Wang is currently a children's literature writer and chairman of the Cultural and Creative Association of the Republic of China. Education: Tsinghua University Foreign Languages Department Experience: Editor-in-Chief of Riyue Culture Publishing Group, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Zhong Zheng Bookstore and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of United Literature. His works include Treasure of the Earth, Twilight, Good Friends-Love, Starting from Me, Scrap Iron into Art, Doing the Right Thing, etc.
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