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万圣节的传统有哪些？吃南瓜派？trick or treat？化装舞会？这些传统都是怎么来的呢？
Why We Eat Candy...and Other Awesome Halloween Origin Stories You Should Know.
If we didn't know about Halloween while growing up, as adults we'd find it pretty weird. ...that's because it is.
Trying to explain Halloween to someone from a different culture is hard. Why do we dress up like dead people...but also prostitutes? Why do we knock on strangers doors...and beg for candy? What is the correlation between tricks and treats?
According to our research? Halloween is cool, but it's even cooler once you know its spooky origins.
Why is it called "Halloween?"
"Halloween" is actually a contraction of "All Hallows Evening." It is the evening (eve) before All Saint's Day, the day in the Catholic religion that commemorates those who have died and gone to heaven. "Hallows" is another word for "saints."
What's with the candy?
"Souling" was a practice in medieval England where "soulers" went door to door, asking the rich for small cakes (called soul cakes). In exchange for the cakes, soulers would pray for the families. Because we don't much feel like trusting stranger to bake an un-poisoned dessert for us, prepackaged candy does just fine.
Where did trick-or-treating come from?
In addition to "souling", trick-or-treating was possibly also influenced by Scottish "guising" which features costumed wanderers going door to door asking for coins. Obviously candy is better.
Jack O'Lanterns? WHY?【halloween,起源】
They originated from the term "will-o'-the-wisp", which was the super Scot-Irish way to describe the phenomenon of the atmospherical balls of light that appear around bogs. The first Jack O'Lanterns were made from turnips.【halloween,起源】
Where's the meat?
The reason Halloween features candy, apples, small cakes is because Christian tradition holds that this day is supposed to be vegetarian. If any house on my neighborhood wants to pass out burgers, that's totally cool with me though.
What's with all the gourds?
Fall is traditionally the season of harvest and sometimes that "harvestness" bleeds into Halloween.
Why must we dress like this?【halloween,起源】
The traditional focus of All Hallows' Eve was to make a mockery of death itself. So the point was to dress up as your favorite dead saint to fool death. Then I guess some guy in the 70's was like, "Well technically Darth Vader is dead!" and things just got really out of hand from there.
I don't know about you, but the next time a stranger tries to talk to me at a Halloween party, I'm just going to list off this trivia.
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你了解万圣节的由来吗？
Halloween, or Hallowe'en, a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31, is a mix of ancient Celtic practices, Catholic and Roman religious rituals and European folk traditions that blended together over
time to create the holiday we know today.
万圣节前夜(每年10月31日)，在其形成过程中逐渐融合了凯尔特习俗、天主教仪式和欧洲民间传统，最终形成了我们今天所见的这
样一个节日。
Ancient
远古时期
Shades: Throughout ancient history, Shades meant the spirit of a
dead person, residing in the underworld.
幽灵：远古时期，人们认为幽灵是生活在地下世界的死者的灵魂。 Carving gourds into elaborately decorated lanterns dates back
thousands of years to Africa.
将葫芦精雕细刻、做成灯笼的习俗可追溯到几千年前的非洲。
800-450 B.C.
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