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1October 3 1 What is the festival?

Halloween, abbreviated as "Halloween", is a traditional festival in the western world. On the day before Halloween, that is, 10 and 3 1 every year, the celebration is usually in the evening. Mainly popular in the United States, the British Isles, Australia, Canada and New Zealand and other western countries where Saxon descendants gather. That night, children will put on makeup clothes and masks and collect candy from house to house.

Halloween means "holy night". Halloween has become one of the most popular and popular festivals in a year, and many people celebrate it with great enthusiasm. Halloween is the night before 1 65438+1October1.In fact, it is a festival to praise autumn, just as May Day is a festival to praise spring.

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Festival theme

The theme of New Year's Eve is ghosts, terrible people, and things related to death, magic and monsters.

Halloween is usually associated with ghosts, ghouls, witches, bats, black cats, owls, goblins, zombies, skeletons, pumpkin heads and demons, corpses, fictional characters such as vampires and Frankenstein, and pumpkin lanterns (pumpkins in the West and Asia have different hard wooden shells, so they look like they are carved on wood).

Black and orange are the traditional colors of Halloween. Modern Halloween products also use a lot of purple, green and red. Autumn elements such as pumpkins and scarecrows have also become symbols of Halloween.