What are the differences in cultures of different countries?

Britain is the birthplace of Halloween. In the 5th century BC, the Celtics living in Ireland at that time designated 10 and 3 1 as the end of summer, symbolizing the end of the year. Afraid of being the target of ghosts, the Celts put out the fire at home that night, put on ferocious and terrible masks, and went to the street to parade as ghosts to drive away the wandering ghosts. Gradually, these traditional customs have evolved into celebrations for young people today. Everyone plays the role of a ghost horse and have a nice holiday tonight.

Ocean Park in Hong Kong introduced the western concept of Halloween ten years ago and gave it an interesting and authentic name "Hello". During the period from September 23rd to June 3rd10 this year, Ocean Park will become the largest Halloween performance stage in the world, with more than 25 key projects with the theme of fright, and 444 ghosts dressed in fantastic costumes will bring great visual and auditory stimulation to tourists.

65438+1October 3 1 is a traditional Halloween in the west. On 23rd, the 20th Halloween Puppy Parade was held in Tompkins Square Park, new york, USA.

The puppies attending the event were all dressed up in unique shapes, which made people laugh. Some dressed as princesses, some dressed as elk, some dressed as captains, and some dressed as Mickey Mouse, which is really creative.

On October 26th, 65438/KLOC-0, "Zombies" appeared in the streets of new york, Washington, Belgrade and other cities one after another. The bloody "Zombies" made all kinds of horrible moves, which frightened many pedestrians. It turned out that this was a specially planned activity to promote the movie The WalkingDead, known as the American version of Resident Evil. Within 24 hours, actors played "zombies" in 26 cities around the world, deliberately scaring passers-by and creating a sensational effect. (

With the approach of Halloween, pumpkin lanterns, exotic costumes and various candy tricks make the streets in five districts of new york full of "weird atmosphere". Every street in new york invites tourists to celebrate Halloween, especially the "Ghost Parade" in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, which even amazed new york people.

Since mid-June of 10, pumpkin lanterns and various Halloween costumes and masks have been selling well on the streets of Korea, and the decorations in hotels and department stores are even more ingenious, which makes people stop to watch. This strong festive atmosphere has been fully displayed in amusement parks in South Korea. During Halloween, adults and children will go to amusement parks to celebrate this carnival festival.

During Halloween every year, the amusement areas in Seoul, South Korea are full of festive atmosphere, especially Lotte World in the urban area and Everland in the suburbs. From layout to activity arrangement, ensure that adults and children have a good time. Both parks are very good at creating a festive atmosphere. In the recent visit, you can see Halloween decorations, pumpkins of different sizes, Q-version or little devil-like pumpkin faces, monsters, flying elves and so on. All of them are gathered together, and there will be a song and dance performance on the hour, which will make the tourists have a super fun.

New york people dressed up and marched in the streets.

Californians' holiday ideas, like scenes in horror movies, tend to wear weird clothes.

Russians dress up as Putin on Halloween.

Children in Miami especially like Halloween, and so does Halloween.

Thais like the traditional way of dressing up as ghosts.

Japanese prefer pumpkin clothes.

Halloween is a day for people in some countries to remember their dead relatives.

It's Halloween.

Today, Halloween has lost its religious superstition. It has become a festival for children and a festival for young people to dress up as balls.

Society has always given positive guidance to festival activities: adults are required to educate their children not to do threatening pranks, and adults are also required to take their children out together (generally, adults park their cars on the side of the road and children knock on the door for candy). Adults should let their children only go to houses with holiday decorations and lights at the door, otherwise they will not be disturbed. In addition, in the process of begging for sugar, you must always stand at the gate and wait, and you are not allowed to enter the house. The sugar you get back must be inspected by Jiaotong University before you can eat it. Families receiving children are also required not to provide homemade food or unpackaged food.

Holiday arrangements in public places and at home are voluntary. Face pumpkin lantern, white net black spider, etc. They are all holiday decorations, and there is no scary ghost color at all. Some lesbians learn to buy a pair of pumpkin or ghost skull earrings to wear at this time. If the layout of any house is too horrible, it will be stopped by the relevant parties, and the media will also be exposed for the public to blame.

Halloween costumes are also full of people, not monotonous children in GREAT GHOST. There are many channels to teach people how to make Halloween costumes. For example, make the simplest ghost clothes and cover your head with a white sheet. Don't forget to buckle two holes for your eyes. If you want to play a magician, put on black pants and a black hat, and hide a fluffy rabbit between the hat and the top of your head. Also teach adults how to dress up their children as angels, white clothes and trousers, and then how to tie a flashlight to their heads from behind; They also teach children how to dress up as their favorite cartoon characters. Of course, businessmen in the clothing and props industries have more articles to do.

There is no holiday at school on Halloween. Sometimes schools come forward to organize parties, and sometimes students who are unwilling to be lonely will hold small parties themselves; Every October, friends and family send cards to wish each other a happy Halloween, which is a popular custom.

In a word, Halloween has become a very common seasonal festival in the West. Many people regard this as the end of autumn and the arrival of winter. As soon as Halloween is over, people begin to look forward to Christmas and even the New Year.

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[Flying Fairy] Celtic Savin Festival

In ancient Celtic belief, the New Year began at 165438+ 10/month 1, or Samhain. Just as a shorter day symbolizes the beginning of a new year, so does a sunset. Therefore, the annual harvest festival begins on the evening of June 3 1. Druids in the British Isles burn crops as sacrifices. When they dance around the fire, the sun season ends and the Sawin Festival begins. Celts believe that Samhain, the god of death, will return to Earth with a ghost on the night of June 3rd1to look for body double. So they lit torches and burned animals as a gift from death. They will also dress themselves up with costumes made of animal heads or fur, making strange noises, so that death can't recognize themselves and avoid disasters. This is the origin of today's Halloween masquerade. After that night, the ghost returned to the underworld and everything was calm. 1 65438+1October1In the morning, the druids distributed the burning embers in the fire to all families and lit a new kitchen flame. These flames are used to keep the home warm and drive away evil spirits. Because this time is considered to be the invisible door that connects the yin and yang in a year, the two worlds may communicate. The bonfire is an important program in the festival. The villagers threw the bones of the slaughtered cattle on the fire; It is said that the word "bonfire" comes from "bone fire". After the bonfire was lit, the villagers put out all the remaining lights. Then each family solemnly lit their fireplace with the same fire as a sign of the close unity of the whole village. So far, there are still hundreds of bonfires lit on Halloween night in Ireland. New pagans still hold Samhain's midnight ghost worship ceremony and other traditional festivals on Halloween.

Norwegian elf stain

In ancient legends (Norwegian religion) and today's restoration of traditional research (? Satru) mentioned that Halloween used to be a festival of sacrifice. In this festival, people would slaughter animals to sacrifice elves and food to pray for God's blessing. A poem about 1020, Sigvatr? Or? This record was recorded by the arsonist Austrfaravisur ("Poem of Journey to the East"). As a Christian, the author refused to live with a pagan in Sweden because there was an alfablot ("Elf Sacrifice"). However, we can't get more reliable information about "alfablot". However, like other imprinting ceremonies, there was a part of providing food, and later Scandinavians also retained the tradition of providing animals to elves. Judging from the date of sacrifice (near the autumnal equinox), and because elves are associated with fertility and ancestors, we can guess that the essence of these sacrifices is to pay homage to ancestors and pray for prosperity.

Halloween tradition

Since17th century, the tradition of celebrating Halloween has gradually disappeared in southern England, and was replaced by a gunpowder plot held on10.5. But Halloween is still very popular in Scotland, Ireland and northern England. It was not until the last decade that Halloween was celebrated again in southern England, but the way was completely American. Traditional celebrations have been almost completely preserved in Ireland. There, the last Monday of June 10 is a public holiday, all schools are closed, and the mid-term exam will be held the following week. This festival is usually called Halloween. Therefore, Ireland is the only country that gives students a holiday on Halloween, so they can celebrate freely and keep the ancient tradition.

Halloween food

As Halloween approaches the apple harvest, toffee apples have also become a holiday food. The method is to insert an apple with a bamboo stick, then hold the bamboo stick and put the apple in toffee syrup to rotate, and sometimes stick nuts on it. Once upon a time, every family would prepare toffee apples for their children, but the habit of giving toffee apples gradually disappeared when it was rumored that someone had put pins and blades in the apples. Although most cases are just pranks, in real cases, children are only slightly injured, but many parents still think it is common to put blades in apples. Other special foods include: corn candy corn, hot cider and roasted pumpkin seeds.

Tales of Halloween

Halloween means "holy night". Nowadays, Halloween has become one of the most popular and popular festivals in a year, and many players celebrate it with great enthusiasm. Halloween is the night before June 3 1, and it is actually a festival to praise autumn, just as May Day is a festival to praise spring. Druids, priests of ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland, had a grand festival to praise autumn, which started at midnight after Halloween and lasted all day until the next day. 1 1. They think that on that night, their great Shaman Church of Death summoned all the ghosts of those who died that year, and these evil spirits would be punished by being born as animals. Of course, just thinking of such a ghostly party was enough to make those simple-minded fools at that time tremble with fear and can't believe it. So they lit a bonfire and watched these evil spirits closely. This is the origin of the saying that Halloween is full of witches and ghosts. Until now, some people in some isolated areas of Europe still believe this is true. Now all over Europe, people regard Halloween as a good opportunity to have fun, tell ghost stories and scare each other. So people no longer just praise Qiu Guang with this festival, but make it a real "carnival". Facial makeup is one of the traditional Halloween programs. What Halloween always says: trick or treat.

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[Fei Xian] Halloween is a traditional western festival, and it is10,31every year. That night, children will put on makeup clothes and masks and go door to door to collect fruit. Festivals are mainly popular in the English-speaking world, such as the British Isles and North America, followed by Australia and New Zealand.

Now, the younger generation in some Asian countries tend to celebrate "foreign festivals". On Halloween, some large foreign supermarkets will set up counters to sell Halloween toys, and small vendors will also sell some dolls or models related to Halloween to attract young people's attention.

Anoca, Minnesota, USA is called "Halloween Capital of the World", and a large-scale parade is held every year.

In western countries, there is a "Halloween" on June 3 1 every year, which is interpreted as "Halloween" in the dictionary and "Halloween night" in Chinese translation. Halloween is a traditional festival in western countries. This night is the most haunted night of the year, so it is also called "Ghost Festival".

More than a thousand years ago, the Catholic Church in Europe designated 1 65438+1October1as "All Hallows' Day". "Saint" means saint. Legend has it that since 500 BC, Celts living in Ireland, Scotland and other places have moved this festival forward by one day, that is, 65438+1October 3 1.

They think that this day is the day when summer officially ends, that is, the beginning of the new year and the beginning of the severe winter. At that time, people believed that on this day, the dead souls of the deceased would return to their former homes to look for all beings, so as to be reborn, which was the only hope of being reborn after death.

Living people are afraid of dead souls to take life, so people put out fire and candlelight on this day, so that dead souls can't find living people and dress up as monsters to scare away dead souls.

After that, they will rekindle the candlelight and start a new year's life. Legend has it that Celtic tribes also had the custom of killing the living to commemorate the dead on June 3 10.

By the 1 century, the Romans who occupied the territory of Celtic tribes gradually accepted the custom of Halloween, but the barbaric practice of burning the living to sacrifice the dead was abolished.

Roman festivals celebrating harvest were combined with Celtic rituals, wearing terrible masks and dressed as animals or ghosts to drive away demons wandering around them. This is why most people in the world celebrate Halloween with strange costumes today.

With the passage of time, the meaning of Halloween has gradually changed, becoming active, joyful and festive. The idea of the deceased seeking the reincarnation of body double was gradually abandoned and forgotten. Today, most images and pictures symbolizing Halloween, such as witches and black cats, have friendly, lovely and interesting faces.

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[Novice] Halloween celebrations are held all over the world:

On Halloween, many ghosts and lunatics appeared in Frankenstein Castle in the south of Frankfurt, and many people were scared and shouted. Still not afraid? Put you in a coffin, or the guillotine, and you will definitely fall into the tourist trap. This Halloween party, which attracted thousands of people from the United States and Germany, has been held for more than 30 years. It was originally initiated by the US troops stationed nearby.

Kawasaki, Japan also held a large-scale Halloween parade, not only with ghosts and zombies, but also cartoon characters and classic characters in movies. This parade has been held for thirteen years, and many participants have participated in it since childhood. This year, they also brought the next generation to feel the atmosphere, and adults and children had a good time.

In Washington, USA, according to tradition, President Obama hosted 2,000 children to the White House for a Halloween party on Halloween, and together with First Lady Michelle, he distributed candy to the children there, and ghosts were guests.

In addition, a diving group in Florida held an ingenious underwater pumpkin carving competition. Participants must wear full diving equipment to bring pumpkins to the bottom of the water. Don't think it's easy to carve pumpkins underwater, because pumpkins are buoyant, so you must hold on to them tightly, or they will float away. Actually, to carve a pumpkin, you don't have to carve eyes, ears, nose and mouth. The octopus pattern was very creative and finally won. The winner's prize is a free diving trip.