When is Halloween ? Halloween is coming soon. Are you looking forward to it? The following editor brings you the origin and legend of Halloween. Let’s take a look.
Strait Metropolis Daily reporter Chen Leng Leng Lu Botu
Halloween is also called All Saints’ Day, on November 1st each year, it is a traditional Western holiday; and on the eve of Halloween , October 31 is the most lively festival The moment. In Chinese, Halloween is often translated as All Saints' Day.
Every October 31st is "Halloween Night", which is the ghost festival in western countries. It is believed that the souls of the deceased will return to their former residences to look for souls in the living people that night, and want to be reborn. Legend has it that the Druids had a grand festival. They believed that Death would summon the souls of the dead that night and that evil spirits would be punished. So they lit a campfire and watched the evil spirits.
More than two thousand years ago, Europe would designate November 1 as "All Hallows' Day" (All Hallows' Day). "Hallow" means saint. Legend has it that since 500 BC, the Celts (Celts) living in Ireland, Scotland and other places moved the festival one day forward, that is, October 31.
They think that this day is the day when the summer officially ends, which is the beginning of the new year and the day when the harsh winter begins. At that time, people believed that the dead souls of the deceased would return to their former homes to find creatures in the living people on this day, thereby regenerating, and this is the only hope for a person to be reborn after death.
The living people are afraid of the dead souls to take their lives, so people put out the fire and candlelight on this day, so that the dead souls can't find the living people, and they dress themselves up as monsters and ghosts to scare away the dead souls. After that, they will rekindle the fire and candlelight to start a new year of life.
Halloween was originally a celebration of autumn, just like May Day is a celebration of spring. The priests of ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland, Druids, had a grand festival praising autumn, which lasted for a whole day from midnight on October 31st to November 1st. They believe that on that night their great god of death, Saman, summoned all the ghosts of those who died that year, and that these evil spirits would be punished by being entrusted with animals.
Of course, just thinking of such ghostly gatherings was enough to scare the simple-minded fools. So they lit a bonfire that soared to the sky and watched these evil spirits closely. This is how the saying that there are witches and ghosts everywhere on Halloween. In some isolated areas of Europe, there are still people who believe this is true.
The ancient Romans also had a festival on November 1, which was used to pay tribute to their goddess Pomona. They roasted nuts and apples in front of the blazing campfire. Our Halloween seems to be a combination of ancient Romans and Druids.
Halloween activities turned out to be very simple, and most of them took place in the church. But throughout Europe, people see Halloween as an opportunity to have fun, tell ghost stories and scare each other. So people no longer use this festival to praise autumn, but turn it into a festival of gods, witches and ghosts.
Source: Minnan Net
