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Halloween is a traditional festival in the west-Ghost Festival. Every June 1 65438+1October1. 65438+1October 3 1 is Halloween, usually called Halloween. Legend has it that all ghosts will come to the world on the same day and dress themselves up as ghosts to avoid being taken away by ghosts. Although Halloween is a custom celebration abroad, it is impressive that people will ask for candy and trick or treat from door to door, which is the most popular among children.

Custom of Halloween

make faces

Halloween costumes are not just monotonous children in GREAT GHOST. Make the simplest ghost costume, cover your head with a white sheet, dig two holes to keep your eyes, and hide a fluffy rabbit between your hat and your head for later use. Or put on a pumpkin hat, the children put on white clothes and trousers, and then tie a flashlight on their heads behind them to dress up as little angels; There are also parents who dress their children up as their favorite anime images.

Trick or treat

Trick or treat is a unique custom of Halloween, mainly among children. During Halloween, children will dress themselves up in various ways, and then go out with pumpkin lanterns to ask for candy. If the children don't do this, the host will try his best to trick or treat. Punish you in various ways, such as taking out the garbage in your house until you are willing to give them candy. (Be sure to give it! )

Swing for apples

The most popular game on Halloween 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 instead of their hands. Whoever bites first wins.

What is the symbol of Halloween?

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.

Jack lamp is the most famous symbol of Halloween. In Britain and Ireland, locals used to light candles in hollowed-out turnips to make jack-o'-lanterns, but American immigrants soon replaced them with pumpkins, because pumpkins are bigger and easier to carve patterns on. Many families carve scary faces on pumpkins and put them in class at the gate. Traditionally, this is to scare away demons or monsters.

Pumpkins are orange, so orange has become a traditional Halloween color. Carving pumpkin lanterns with pumpkins is also a Halloween tradition, and its history can be traced back to Ireland. Legend has it that a man named Jack was so stingy that he couldn't go to heaven after his death, and he couldn't go to hell because he made fun of the devil, so he had to wander around with lanterns until the judgment day. Therefore, Jack and Jack-o-lantern became the symbols of cursed wandering souls. In order to scare away these wandering souls on Halloween, people carve terrible faces out of turnips, beets or potatoes to represent Jack holding lanterns. This is the origin of the ghost fire. After the Irish moved to the United States, they began to carve pumpkins, because pumpkins are more abundant than turnips in autumn in the United States. Now, if people hang jack-o-lanterns on the windows on Halloween night, it means that those who wear Halloween costumes can knock on the door and ask for candy. In the jack-o'-lantern, people usually put candles or some sweets.

Why do you eat candy on Halloween?

Halloween is a good time for children to have fun. In the eyes of children, this is a festival full of mystery. As night falls, the children can't wait to put on colorful costumes, strange masks and a "Jack-o-lantern" and run out to play. "Jack-o 'lantern" looks very cute. The way is to hollow out the pumpkin, carve smiling eyes and a big mouth on the outside, and then put candles in the pumpkin to light it, so that people can see this innocent smiling face from far away.

After packing, groups of children dressed as monsters ran to the neighbor's door with "pumpkin lanterns" in their hands, threatening to shout "trick or treat" and "want money or eat" If adults don't give candy or change, those naughty children will do as they say: OK, I'll play a trick on you if you don't give it. Sometimes they soap other people's doorknobs and sometimes color other people's cats. These little pranks often make adults laugh and cry. Of course, most families are happy to entertain these naive little guests. Therefore, on Halloween, children are always full and have bulging pockets.

Trickortreat translated into Chinese means trick or treat. If the host doesn't give candy to the children, the children will play tricks near his home. Because it is a holiday, of course, no one cares, but in order to satisfy the children and cooperate with the festive atmosphere, every family will prepare candy for the children who come to the door on Halloween.