What are the customs of Halloween?

1. Knocking on doors to ask for candy

Halloween night is the most "haunted" time of the year, and the custom of the night is that children carrying pumpkin lamps and wearing all kinds of imitation monster costumes knock on the doors of houses and shout: "Trick or Treat! Trick or Treat!" and the host family (who may also be dressed in scary costumes) will hand out candy, chocolates, or small gifts; if they don't, the kids will play all sorts of pranks, such as dumping garbage in your house.

2, "bite the apple" game

Another custom of Halloween is the most popular "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.

3, accounted for poker game

In Ireland, there is a traditional game of divination, participants blindfolded, from the table with a few small plates to choose one of them, such as touching the plate containing soil, on behalf of the coming year there will be a participant in connection with the person over the body, such as water on behalf of the will be far away, full of money on behalf of the will be rich, full of beans on behalf of the will be poor, and so on. In Ireland in the 19th century, young girls would put slugs on a dish sprinkled with flour, and the slugs would crawl in the shape of the girl's future husband.

4, ghost carnival

New York City also held a special parade on Halloween night, so that a group of vampires, zombies, witches, Frankenstein, etc., and welcome the public to visit the venue, to the attendees of any age, gender, regardless of class, nationality, even if you are afraid of ghosts, you can also join the ranks of their ranks, to a lively ghost carnival. In fact, these ghosts are all people, so they are not scary, on the contrary, some of the little ghost face is very cute, people are in the midst of it, as if to participate in a large-scale masquerade ball.

Ancient Europeans believed that wearing ugly masks could scare away the evil spirits that roamed the villages; in the fourth world, because of the prevalence of Christianity, this day was changed to the day of God's death, and it was believed that God would help to drive away these evil spirits. Later, children dressed up in various ghostly costumes and rang the doorbell for candy.

Introduction to Halloween

Halloween, a traditional Western holiday, is celebrated on October 31 every year. The night can be said to be the most "haunted" night of the year. Halloween originated from the Celtic peoples in ancient times, in the last day of October, all kinds of dead people's spirits, demons and ghosts wandering the earth, in order to scare away these ghosts, the Celtic peoples will wear a variety of ugly masks. That day is also the Celtic people believe that this is the end of summer, the beginning of winter, thanks to the sun god to let them harvest; and food sacrifices to the dead, good spirits of the moment, used to pray for peace and through the winter.