Although Halloween is not a legal holiday, it is very distinctive: the iconic colors are orange and black, and pumpkins carved into human faces are a famous landscape. Traditional Halloween activities include "candy pranks", masquerade parties, going to haunted houses to play catch-up games, hiding under the covers to watch horror movies, and carving pumpkins into faces.
Halloween, formerly known as Shaman Festival, is a festival used by ancient Celts to celebrate the end of harvest season, also known as "Celtic New Year". Celts believe that 10 and 3 1 are the dividing lines between the living and the dead. On this day, all kinds of demons and ghosts raged in the world, causing plague and famine. So they slaughtered cattle and sheep as winter hoarding, put on masks and clothes symbolizing monsters, and threw the bones of cattle and sheep into the bonfire, hoping that wandering ghosts would be comforted and not make trouble in the world.
The theme of Halloween is terrible things, such as ghosts, death and magic. People usually dress up as ghosts, ghouls, zombies, skeletons, witches, demons, bats, black cats, spiders, mummies, werewolves, ghosts and owls, as well as Frankenstein and vampires in science fiction. Autumn elements such as pumpkins and scarecrows often appear on Halloween. The three popular colors of Halloween are: orange of pumpkin, black of night and death, moonlight, white of ghosts and skeletons.
As early as in Europe, people used candles in hollowed-out radishes to make "grimace lanterns", but American immigrants soon replaced radishes with pumpkins, because pumpkins are bigger and easier to carve patterns. People carve ferocious faces on pumpkins and put them on porches or steps to scare away ghosts who come to harass them.
Candy pranks are a traditional activity for children on Halloween. They dress up as ghosts, animals, cartoons and even celebrities. In short, the more outrageous, the better. Knock on doors and say "trick or treat!" To the person who opens the door. It means you have to give me candy as a reward, or I will play a prank on your family! Most people are friendly to children and give them candy generously.
The custom of dressing up for Halloween has been very popular since the beginning of the 20th century. Traditional Halloween costumes are characterized by imitating terrible things, such as monsters or things that don't exist in reality. Vampires, demons, ghosts, skeletons and witches are the most common imitations. At present, the popular trend also includes imitating the president, movie stars and cartoon characters.
Halloween coincides with the harvest season of apples, so "apples dipped in sugar" has become a traditional Halloween food. The method is to put a stick on the whole apple and stir it in syrup to make the surface adhere to a layer of syrup. Sometimes after dipping in syrup, I will dip in some broken nuts. People call this kind of food candy apple, toffee apple or caramel apple, which is a bit like a big sugar gourd.
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