What holiday is Halloween in the west? Why are pumpkins everywhere? What is the special meaning of pumpkin?

Halloween, also known as Halloween, is a traditional festival in the west, which is held in 10 every year. 65438+1October 3 1 on Halloween is the most lively moment of this festival. In China, Halloween is often misunderstood as Halloween.

The jack-o-lantern originated in ancient Ireland. Legend has it that there is a man named Jack who is an alcoholic and likes to play practical jokes. On Halloween, he trapped the devil in a tree, and he refused to let him down until the devil promised never to let him live in hell. After Jack died, because he didn't believe in God, he couldn't go to heaven, and the devil wouldn't let him go to hell.

In order to help Jack find his way back to the world, the devil gave him a burning charcoal. Jack put the burning charcoal in a lantern carved with big carrots. This first "Jack's Lantern" helped Jack find his way back to Ireland, but he never found it, so he always wandered around the world with a lantern.

In the ancient Irish legend, this small candle was placed in a hollowed-out radish, which was called "pumpkin lantern", while the ancient radish lantern evolved to today, and it was made of pumpkin lanterns. It is said that shortly after the Irish arrived in America, they found that pumpkins were better than radishes in origin and carving, so pumpkins became the darling of Halloween.

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Halloween is commonly known as "Ghost Festival" in the west, and the time is 165438+ 10/0/every year. The general celebration begins on the evening of June 3rd 1,1. People will wear masks and strange clothes as ghosts according to customs, and every household will carve pumpkins into lanterns.

There are many versions of the legend about the origin of Halloween. The most common one is that it originated in ancient western European countries before the birth of Christ. More than two thousand years ago, the Catholic Church in Europe designated 1 65438+1October1as "All Hallows' Day". The Celtics believe that this day is the official end of summer, that is, the beginning of a new year. 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.

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