What festivals are there in April?

April Fool's Day (April Fool's Day or April Fool's Day) is also called April Fool's Day and Humor Day. April Fool's Day falls on the Gregorian calendar 1, which is a popular folk festival in the west since19th century and has not been recognized as a legal holiday by any country.

On this day, people cheat and play tricks on each other in various ways, and often at the end of the joke, they will expose and announce that the object of the joke is a "fool". The nature of jokes rarely contains substantial malice, but individual jokes, because they are too big and have large-scale repercussions, become rumors and urban legends, causing people's panic, so people generally avoid jokes like avoiding disasters.

It should be noted that on April Fool's Day, jokes can only be played until noon 12, which is an established strict rule. People who joke after midnight will immediately find themselves in trouble. They are called bigger fools than the people they make fun of.

2. Easter

Easter (Easter) is an important festival in the west, which falls on the first Sunday after the full moon at the vernal equinox every year. Christians believe that Easter symbolizes rebirth and hope, to commemorate the day when Jesus Christ was resurrected on the third day after he was crucified between 30 and 33 AD.

In the past, in most western countries, a grand religious parade was usually held on Easter. The marchers wore robes, carried crosses and marched barefoot. They dressed up as Christian historical figures and sang carols to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. Nowadays, the festival parade has lost its strong religious color. The festival parade is full of festive atmosphere and has strong folk and local characteristics.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Time: February 20th of the lunar calendar.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the first 108 day from winter to the future. It is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important festivals to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.

Qingming was just the name of a solar term at first, and later became a festival to commemorate ancestors, which was related to the Cold Food Festival.

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The origin of April fool's day

The formation of April Fool's Day has a long process. The "Happy Festival" in ancient Rome (March 25th) and the "April Fool's Day" in medieval Europe (65438+February 28th) are regarded as the predecessors of April Fool's Day.

It is said that Chaucer, a famous English poet, first associated April 1 with fooling others. In his work Canterbury Tales, a conceited cock was fooled by a fox on this day. Although some scholars disagree with this statement, ordinary readers usually accept it.

In 1 6th century and17th century, some European poets and writers also mentioned in their works that they played tricks on people in April of1year. 1686, the British writer John Aubrey called this day "Fool's Holy Day", which was the first time in British history to explicitly mention this festival. On April 1698 and 1 day, many British people were deceived and went to the Tower of London to "watch the lion take a bath".

According to the research of folklorists, in Britain and those countries where the holiday tradition originated in Britain, practical jokes can only last until noon that day 12. If you play tricks on people after noon, you will become an "April Fool". In Scotland, people used to call April Fool's Day "cuckoo hunting day", and the word "cuckoo" means fool in Scottish.

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