Halloween is very popular in the west. What is its origin?

Halloween is a traditional festival in the west, which originated from people commemorating saints and the dead on this day. There is also a saying that praises autumn. Now Halloween, adults and children will dress up as ghosts and scare each other.

Halloween English is Halloween, also known as? Halloween? , is one of the traditional festivals of Catholicism and Orthodox Church. Chinese-speaking areas often mistake Halloween for Halloween. Hallow comes from halwen in Middle English, which is very close to the etymology of holy. In some parts of Scotland and Canada, Halloween is still called? Halloween? .

On that day, in order to celebrate all the saints in the sky, people held a grand mass ceremony. Nowadays, for commercial interests or other purposes, society organizes all kinds of activities full of monsters on the night of June 3 1, which completely deviates from the sacred significance of Halloween.

More than 2000 years ago, in Ireland and Scotland, there was a man named? Celtic? Is anyone living here? The Celts set the annual 1 65438+1October1as the beginning of the New Year, and thought that New Year's Eve (65438+1October 3 1) was the moment when the old and the new changed, and the souls of life and death would meet on this night.

In order to commemorate those saints and those who died, about 1000 years ago, the church set 165438+ 10/0 as? Saint's Day? And the night before, that is, 65438+1October 3 1, was called? Halloween? And now it's one? Halloween? .

The Celts believe that the soul of the deceased will be there? Halloween? Visit the earth. They were worried that the evil spirits would bring them trouble or harm, so they decided to put on clothes that looked like ghosts or other evil creatures that night, so that the evil spirits would think that they were the same kind and would not hurt them.

Later, this tradition was brought to the United States by immigrants. Because American pumpkins are more common in autumn, people put candles in pumpkins and use them to make lanterns instead of European radish lanterns.