What is Halloween?

Western traditional festival, Western Ghost Festival.

Halloween (All Saints' day / all hallows'Day Halloween, also known as All Saints' Day, is a traditional Western holiday that is celebrated on November 1 every year. And the eve of Halloween, October 31, is the most lively time of the holiday. In Chinese-speaking areas, Halloween is often misreferred to as All Saints' day）。

To celebrate Halloween, on Halloween Eve, children dress up as cute ghosts and knock on doors from house to house, asking for candy or trick-or-treating. At the same time, legend has it that on this night, all kinds of ghosts will also dress up as children and mingle with the crowd to celebrate the arrival of Halloween, and humans dress up as all kinds of ghosts in order to make the ghosts more harmonious.

Halloween (Halloween) is celebrated on November 1 every year, which is a New Year's festival originating from the ancient Celtic people, and it is also a time to worship the souls of the dead, while avoiding the interference of evil spirits, and also to worship ancestral spirits and good spirits with food to pray for a safe winter, which is a traditional Western festival. That night, the children will put on makeup clothes and masks and go door-to-door to collect nuts. It is prevalent mainly in the English-speaking world, such as the British Isles and North America, followed by Australia and New Zealand.

Now, the young generation in some Asian countries have also begun to tend to celebrate the "foreign festival", on the eve of Halloween, some large foreign-funded supermarkets will put up counters to sell Halloween toys, and small traders will also ** some Halloween-related dolls or models, attracting the attention of young people.

In ancient Celtic beliefs, the new year began on November 1, or Samhain. Just as the shorter daylight symbolizes the beginning of a new year, the sunset also symbolizes the beginning of a new day. So the annual harvest festival begins on the evening of October 31. The druids of the British Isles would light crops as sacrifices, and when they danced around the fire, the solar season came to an end and the Swain Halloween Ghost Dog.

The festival then began. The Celts believed that Samhain, the god of death, would return to earth with the ghost on the night of October 31 in search of a stand-in. So they lit torches and burned animals as a gift to the god of death.

He also dressed himself in costumes made of animal heads or fur, and made strange noises so that the god of death could not recognize him and avoid disaster. That's where today's Halloween Masquerade comes from. That night, the ghost returned to the underworld and everything was calm again.

On the morning of November 1, the druids distributed the embers that were still burning in the fire to each house and used it to light a new kitchen fire. These flames are used to keep the home warm and to ward off evil spirits. Because this is considered to be the time of the year when the invisible door connecting the yin and yang worlds opens, and the two worlds may communicate with each other.