What to do on Halloween

Halloween Halloween is actually an abbreviation of AllHallows'Eve, which means "the night before all hallow's day", and it is a festival honoring the dead and saints in the Christian calendar.

Halloween on November 1 every year, is a traditional Western holiday, the night before the most lively moment, Halloween day children will dress up all kinds of ghosts and monsters knocking on the door door, asking for candy, or else trick or treating, Halloween comes from the ancient Western European countries, in the Druidic belief that November 1 is a new year.

Many peoples around the world have a festival to honor the return of the dead to the earth, such as the Western Christian "Halloween" (Halloween), Mexico's "Day of the Dead" (Díadelos Muertos), Austria's "All Souls Day" (Díadelos Muertos), the "All Souls Day" (Díadelos Muertos), and the "All Souls Day" (Díadelos Muertos). In the West, Halloween is celebrated in Christianity, Díadelos Muertos in Mexico, and Seleenwoche in Austria.

Customs of Halloween

The customs of Halloween include pumpkin lights, trick-or-treating, dressing up as ghosts and goblins, and apple biting.

1. Trick or Treat

The main activity of Halloween (All Hallows' Eve) is "Trick or Treat". Children dress up in scary costumes and go from door to door, ringing their neighbors' doorbells and screaming "Trick or Treat!" (meaning trick or treat), and the host family (who may also be wearing scary costumes) sends out candies, chocolates, or small gifts. Some families even use sound effects and smoke machines to create a scary atmosphere. Most families were so happy to entertain these innocent children that they would carry home bags of sweets from one night to the next. In Scotland, the child to candy will say: "Theskyisblue,thegrassisgreen,maywehaveourHalloween." (The sky is blue, the ground is green, come together to celebrate the night before Halloween), and then sing and dance and other performances to win candy.

2. Jack-o'-lanterns

Jack-o'-lanterns are the most widely recognized symbol of Halloween. In Britain and Ireland, locals originally lit candles in hollowed-out turnips causing jack-o'-lanterns, but immigrants to the United States soon adopted pumpkins instead because they were larger and easier to carve patterns on. Many families carved scary faces on their pumpkins and placed them on their front doorsteps, traditionally to scare away demons or monsters.

3, bite the apple

The most popular game on Halloween Eve is the "bite the apple game". 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 without using their hands, and whoever bites it first is the winner.

4, divination game

In Ireland, there is a traditional divination game, participants blindfolded, from the table with a few small plates to choose one of them, such as touching the plate with soil, on behalf of the coming year will have to participate in the relevant people over the body, such as water on behalf of the will be far away, on behalf of the coin will be rich, on behalf of the beans will be poor and so on. poor, and so on. In Ireland in the 19th century, young girls would put slugs on a plate sprinkled with flour, and the slugs would crawl in the shape of the girl's future husband. In North America, legend has it that if an unmarried woman sits in a darkened room on All Hallows Eve, she can see her future husband's face in a mirror. If they were to die before marriage, a skull would appear in the mirror. The custom has been popular since the late 19th century and greeting cards are sold.

What to eat on Halloween

1, pumpkin pie

"Halloween is here, eat pumpkin", pumpkin is one of the festive foods on All Hallows' Eve. Because there is no family dinner, Halloween is not like other festivals to develop a whole turkey, tender steak, such as "big dishes", but more elaborate design of a variety of desserts. And pumpkin pie is considered the "main dish" of Halloween. Pumpkin pie, one of America's favorite foods, is usually eaten, and around All Hallows' Eve, the major cake stores are in short supply.

2, apples

Because the apple harvest is close to All Hallows' Eve, apples are also a festive food that can't be missed during Halloween. In addition to organizing apple-biting games, people also make caramel apples, which are covered with a layer of icing on the outside of the apple and then dipped in nuts, marshmallows, and other snacks, and it is the most popular festive food from Halloween to Christmas. Hot apple cider, made from apples, is also a favorite drink during this time.

3, candy

In the western countries, Halloween is the most indispensable thing is the candy, Halloween stores sell candy in a variety of ghost shape. Halloween candy will generally be orange-based, a lot of candy will also be made into the appearance of ghosts and monsters, which is also in order to give Halloween should be the scene. On Halloween night, there will be children dressed as various ghosts and monsters to relatives and neighbors knocking on the door, this time the host must take out the candy to give the children.

4, baked pumpkin seeds

This is probably the only snack that is not sweet in the Western tradition of Halloween. With its salty, slightly nutty taste, Westerners often like to drink it with wine. This wine often has tropical fruit aromas that fill the nose, but when it enters the mouth, the aroma changes to peach and almond flavors. What's even more interesting is that the Hudson Valley, where this wine is produced, is near the famous "Headless Valley" and the famous "Headless Horse Breeder" in the United States.

5, corn candy

Corn candy is a candy in the United States and Canada, mainly in the fall Halloween popular. The production method of corn candy is relatively old, and there is no way to find out when it originated. The candy is made to mimic corn kernels, three colors, and each piece is about 3 times as big as a corn kernel. The candy is made primarily of sugar, corn syrup, artificial coloring and binders. Traditional corn candy pieces are three colors: yellow with a wide end, tapered orange center, and whitish fin tips.