What props do you need for Halloween

Halloween is a traditional festival in the west. Historically, it is the New Year's Festival of the ancient Celts, and it is also a day for people to sacrifice the dead. Today, Halloween has become a festival celebrated by young people. At this time of year, all kinds of Halloween-related images will appear in the streets and alleys.

Nowadays, people's Halloween themes are mostly ghosts and horrors, which are related to death, magic and monsters. There are many symbols related to Halloween, such as ghosts, ghouls, witches, bats, black cats, owls, elves, zombies, skeletons and demons, as well as fictional characters, such as vampires and Frankenstein.

Speaking of Halloween props, it must be pumpkins. Pumpkin is orange and belongs to autumn, so it is the most suitable holiday prop for Halloween in autumn. Orange has also become a traditional Halloween color, and the pumpkin lantern made of pumpkin is the most well-known 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.

The history of carving pumpkin lanterns with pumpkins can also 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.