What day is Halloween used to honor

Halloween is a holiday honoring Christian saints.

Halloween, which falls on November 1 every year, is a traditional Western holiday that honors Christian saints. To celebrate the coming of Halloween, children will dress up as all kinds of cute ghosts and ghouls to knock on the door from house to house, asking for candies or else they will be trick-or-treating. At the same time, legend has it that on this night, ghosts and goblins dressed as children would mix with the masses to celebrate Halloween, and Westerners dressed up as ghosts and goblins in order to make the ghosts and goblins more compatible.

Halloween originated as a New Year's festival for the ancient Celtic peoples, and it was also a time to honor the souls of the dead, avoiding the interference of evil spirits, and offering food to the spirits of the ancestors and the good spirits in order to pray for a safe passage through the harsh winter. In the Orthodox Church, All Saints' Day is the first Sunday after Pentecost, thus marking the end of the Easter season.

Halloween Customs

1. Apple Biting Game

One of the popular customs of Halloween is the game of "apple biting". During the game, people let the apple float in a basin filled with water, and then let the participants use their mouths to bite the apple, and whoever bites it first is the winner.

2, pumpkin lights

One of the customs of Halloween is to light pumpkin lights. It is said that in ancient Ireland, pumpkin lamps were made from hollowed-out turnips, and pumpkins became a Halloween favorite instead of turnips.

3, masked masquerade

On Halloween, people will wear strange masks and decorate themselves with animal fur in order to escape from being pursued by evil spirits. This kind of mask masquerade is a traditional custom that people hope to protect themselves by dressing up to scare away evil spirits.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Halloween