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Similarities and differences between Halloween and Easter

The similarity between Halloween and Easter is that they are both traditional western festivals, and the difference is that the festivities are different.

One, Halloween holiday activities:

1, trick or treat: Halloween night, children will dress up as a variety of cute ghosts and goblins, carry a "jack-o'-lantern" run out to play, run to the neighbor's door knocking on the door, asking for candy, or else they will be trick-or-treating.

2. Biting apples: During Halloween, people will put apples in a basin filled with water and let children bite the apples without using their hands, and whoever bites the apples first will be the winner.

3, eat pumpkin: every Halloween, people will make pumpkin into a variety of food, such as pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie, pumpkin puree, pumpkin cheesecake and so on.

4, in the October 31st Halloween eve this day, the streets are full of wonderful live performances, theater staged illusion magic, realistic wandering corpses and ghosts, and a variety of horror movie screening.

2, Easter festivities

1, Easter eggs: people will be boiled eggs, with watercolor traced on the top of the colorful patterns, bright colors on behalf of spring and light.

2. Egg Rolling: Participants roll their colored eggs down the hill and win if they are not cracked by the time they reach the bottom of the hill.

3. Easter Bells: During Easter, bells can be heard almost everywhere in France and Italy, reminding everyone of the resurrection of Jesus for four days in a row.

4, Lily Decoration: On Easter day, beautiful lilies can be seen everywhere in shadow. Charming lilies symbolize holiness and purity. People are fond of looking for blooming lilies in spring, around Easter to represent the holiness of Jesus Christ in their hearts.