How do westerners spend Halloween?

Every year 1 65438+1October1is a traditional "ghost festival" in the west-Halloween. 1October 3 1 Day is Halloween. Usually called Halloween. However, the atmosphere of this day is far from "creepy" as its name suggests.

When Halloween comes, children can't wait to put on colorful costumes, put on strange masks, go home with pumpkin lanterns and ask adults for gifts. There are two most famous symbols of Halloween-the weird pumpkin lantern and the trick of performing magic or giving candy.

"Jack-o 'lantern" looks cute and the method is simple. Hollow out the pumpkin, carve smiling eyes and big mouths on the outside, and put candles in the pumpkin to light it, so people can see this simple smiling face in the distance. This is the children's favorite toy.

However, Halloween is still on the table. We should not only prepare food for the "children" who come to make trouble, but also prepare a table for this special festival.

On the most haunted night of the year, all kinds of ghosts, pirates, aliens and witches appeared. Before the Christian era, Celts would not hold a ceremony to thank God and the sun in summer. At that time, fortune tellers lit and practiced witchcraft to drive away demons who were said to be wandering around.

Subsequently, the harvest festival celebrated by the Romans with nuts and apples was dissolved from the Celtics on June 3 1 day. In the Middle Ages, people put on animal costumes and scary masks to drive away ghosts on Halloween. Although Christianity later replaced the religious activities of Celtic and Rome, the early customs still existed.

Nowadays, children wear all kinds of costumes and masks and participate in Halloween dances with playful psychology. Paper wizards, black cats, ghosts and bones are often hung on the walls around these dances. At windows and doorways, there are twisted teeth or ugly pumpkin lanterns. Children also often try to bite the hanging apples.