Why is Halloween called Ghost Festival?

Halloween is a traditional festival in Western countries. This night is the most "haunted" night of the year, so it is also called the "Ghost Festival".

Starting from midnight after Halloween, the theme of the night before is ghosts, scary things, and things related to death, magic, and monsters.

It lasts for a full day until the next day, November 1st.

They believe that on that night, their great god of death, Saman, will summon all the ghosts of the people who died that year, and these evil ghosts will be punished by being reborn as animals. Of course, just thinking of this kind of ghostly gathering is enough to make people feel sad.

At that time, those simple-minded ignorant people were frightened.

So they lit a bonfire that reached into the sky and closely monitored these evil spirits.

In 500 BC, the Celts in Ireland, Scotland and other places believed that October 31 was the end of summer and November 1 was the first day of winter, so the night of October 31 was particularly dangerous.

When night falls, various evil spirits will appear when summoned by Samhain (the god of death).

In order to avoid being taken away by evil spirits and scare away evil ghosts, the Celts would extinguish fires and candlelights, put on masks, dress themselves up as monsters and monsters, and make weird noises to scare away these ghosts.

It cannot find anyone alive.

People in Chinese-speaking areas are accustomed to collectively refer to Halloween and All Hallows' Eve (Halloween Eve) as Halloween, and consider it to be a Western ghost festival.

Compared with the original Halloween, today's Halloween has undergone qualitative changes. Today's Halloween is a carnival for young people.

Because during the festival, children usually wear costumes and masks and go door to door to collect candy; young people dress up as witches, clowns, zombies and other ghosts to participate in costume parties or parades in the streets, completely missing the original Halloween.

Night rituals.