万圣节起源英语

Halloween culture can be traced back to the Druids, a Celticculture in Ireland, Britain and Northern Europe. Roots lay in thefeast of Samhain, which was annually on October31st to honor the dead。

万圣节文化可以追溯到德鲁伊教，这是一种爱尔兰、北欧和英国的凯尔特文化，根植于Samhain节的庆祝活动，Samhain节于每年的10月31日纪念逝者。

Samhain signifies "summers end" or November. Samhain was aharvest festival with huge sacred bonfires, marking the end of theCeltic year and beginning of a new one. Many of the practicesinvolved in this celebration were fed on superstition 。

Samhain节说明夏天结束或者十一月，是一个丰收的节日。在Samhain节会燃起神圣巨大的篝火，标志着凯尔特一年的结束和新一年的开始。一些做法因为迷信被加入庆祝活动中。

The Celts believed the souls of the dead roamed the streetsand villages at night. Since not all spirits were thought to befriendly, gifts and treats were left out topacify the evil and ensure next years crops wouldbe plentiful. This custom evolved into trick-or-treating。

凯尔特人相信死者的灵魂会在夜里出没在街道和村庄。因为他们认为不是所有的灵魂都是友善的，所以就把礼物和好吃的留在外面安慰恶灵来确保来年的庄稼可以丰收。这种习俗演变成了trick-or-treating。

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由于万圣夜邻近苹果的丰收期，太妃糖苹果（toffee apples）成为应节食品。制法是把苹果插上竹签，然后手持竹签把苹果放在太妃糖浆中转动，有时会再粘上果仁。

从前，各家各户会准备太妃糖苹果送给小孩，但当传闻有人把大头针和刀片放入苹果中，送太妃糖苹果的习惯便逐渐消失。虽然大部分个案只是恶作剧，即使是在真实个案中，小孩也仅受轻伤，但是不少家长仍然以为在苹果中放刀片是十分普遍的。

参考资料：百度百科-万圣节

The Halloween celebrationcomes from All Hallows Day or All Saints Day, the 1st of November. This wasoriginally a pagan festival of the dead, but later became a holiday to honorChristian saints.万圣节的庆祝活动来源于每年11月1日的All Hallows Day 或All Saints Day。它原先是异教徒们纪念死者的节日，但是逐渐演变成一个纪念基督圣者的节日。

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万圣节的由来英文版：

Morethan2，000yearsago，theEuropeanChristianChurchdesignatedNovember1as＂thedayofthesaintsoftheworld＂．

＂Hallow＂meanssaints．LegendhasitthatCeltslivinginIreland，Scotlandandotherplacesmovedthefestivalforwardforaday，October31，500B．C．

Theythinkit＇stheofficialendofsummer，thebeginningoftheNewYearandthebeginningoftheharshwinter．

Atthattime，peoplebelievedthatthedeadsoulofthedeceasedwouldreturntotheirformerresidenceonthisdaytofindlifeonthelivingpeople，soastoregenerate，andthisistheonlyhopethatpeoplecangetregenerationafterdeath．

Thelivingareafraidofthesoulofthedeadtotakelife，sopeopleputoutthefireandcandlelightonthisday，sothatthesoulofthedeadcannotfindalivingperson，anddressthemselvesasghoststofrightenawaythesoulofthedead．

Afterwards，theywillrekindlethesparksandcandlesandstartanewyear＇slife．

两千多年前，欧洲的基督教会把11月1日定为“天下圣徒之日”。“Hallow”即圣徒之意。传说自公元前五百年，居住在爱尔兰、苏格兰等地的凯尔特人（Celts）把这节日往前移了一天，即10月31日。

他们认为该日是夏天正式结束的日子，也就是新年伊始，严酷的冬天开始的一天。那时人们相信，故人的亡魂会在这一天回到故居地在活人身上找寻生灵，借此再生，而且这是人在死后能获得再生的唯一希望。

而活人则惧怕死人的魂灵来夺生，于是人们就在这一天熄掉炉火、烛光，让死人的魂灵无法找到活人，又把自己打扮成妖魔鬼怪把死人的魂灵吓走。之后，他们又会把火种、烛光重新燃起，开始新的一年的生活。

万圣节英语是AllSaintsDay，亦称“诸圣瞻礼”，天主教和东正教节日之一，是西方国家的传统节日。华语地区常将万圣夜误称为万圣节。“Hallow”来源于中古英语halwen，与holy词源很接近，在苏格兰和加拿大的某些区域，万圣节仍然被称为“AllHallowMas”。

万圣节主要流行于英语世界，如不列颠群岛和北美，其次是澳大利亚和新西兰。如今一些亚洲国家的年轻一辈也开始倾向于过“洋节”，到了万圣节前夕，一些大型外资超市都会摆出专柜卖万圣节的玩具，小商贩也会出售一些跟万圣节相关的玩偶或模型，吸引年轻人的眼光。

The Celtic people, who lived more than 2000 years ago feared the evening of Oct. 31 more than any other day of the year. It was the eve of their festival of Samhain. Samhain was a joyful harvest festival that marked the death of the old year and the beginning of a new one. The day itself was a time for paying homage to the sun god Baal who had provided the people with the ripened grain for use in the upcoming winter. Come evening evil spirits were everywhere. Charms and spells were said to have more power on the eve of Samhain. Several rituals were performed by the Celtic priests, Druids, to appease the Lord of the Dead.In Western countries, the annual October 31, there's Halloween, dictionaries interpreted as "The eve of All Saints'Day", English translation: Halloween night. With regard to Halloween, people are more or less have a certain amount of emotional awareness: know that Halloween, many public places, and even at home courtyard, will be arranged in many decoration, such as the various types of ghosts ah, pumpkin lights Yeah, there are black as well as the witch's broom and the like; kids wearing different Halloween costumes every year, carrying a basket to put pumpkin lights from house to house to discuss sugar, said to be "trick or treak". In addition, you want to know more about some? Here we briefly outline the origins and customs of Halloween. First, the origin of Halloween: With regard to the origin of Halloween, the largest version of the legend that it was before the birth of Christ from the ancient Western European countries, mainly including Ireland, Scotland and Wales. This is a few Western Europeans of the ancient people called the Druids. Druids of the New Year in the November 1, New Year's Eve, Drewett young people who set team, wearing all kinds of weird masks and carrying carved turnips a good light (the latter part of the Department of pumpkin lights customs, the ancient Western Europe first there is no pumpkin), they walk in the villages between. This was actually a kind of harvest celebration; also said to be "Halloween", legend of those who died that year, the soul will be the eve of Halloween visit to death, they said that people should be allowed to visit the ghost to see the ghost of a successful harvest and to render abundant hospitality. All bonfire and lights, one hand in order to scare away the ghost, but also illuminates the road for the ghosts to guide their return. In medieval Europe, there had been the history of Christianity to destroy infidels. However, before the New Year's Eve celebration worship never really removed, but in the form of witchcraft. This is why we are now Halloween, but are also left witch's brooms, black cats, spells and other traces. 2, Halloween production of the word: Many people are in a Halloween celebration party, which in turn is called "All Hallow E'en", "The Eve of All Hallows", "Hallow e'en", or "The eve of All Saintas'Day". Ultimately established by usage evolved into "Halloween", the Chinese translation became a Halloween night. 3, "Trick or treat" legend: Today, the kids went house to house to dress the custom of sugar is said to originated in Ireland. Irish pagan ancient times in Western Europe who believe that Halloween will be clustered at the home near the ghost and accept a banquet. Thus, in the "banquet" after villagers would dress up the ghost of the wizard, walk outside the village to guide ghosts away from evil to avoid disaster. Meanwhile, the villagers also note that the front yard after the house at the mercy of some fruits and other food, feed the ghost without alienating them enough to hurt humans and animals, or exploitation of other crops. Later, this custom has continued down, it becomes a laugh at the kids can not be generous house joke. As for the pumpkin lights at least two different ways. Man hollowing out a pumpkin is also engraved with a face point, the ghost of the candle used to disperse; Another point is the ghost of the candle, trying to cheat the people taken in and follow the ghost to go, so people on the surface of the pumpkin engraved with a mockery of the face to make fun of the ghost: Humph! You would on a fool's trap. Legend because the first is the one with the pumpkin Irish Jack, so people turn grimace pumpkin light is called Jack-O-Lantern. 4, the present Halloween Halloween spread to this day do not have the color of religious superstition, it became a children's program, but also young people masquerade programs. Community to the festival's activities have also been doing positive guidance: requires adults to teach children not do threatening hoax, also requires adults to go out with the kids (usually adults and cars parked on the roadside, children go to knock on the door discuss sugar) . Adults should require that children be allowed to go to the door, and a point of holiday lights decorated the families who, otherwise, do not disturb. Also discuss the process of sugar must always be standing at the door to wait, not allowed to entered the room, to recover the sugar but also check the National Chiao Tung University who eat before Xu. Children in host families are also asked not to produce their own food nor to non-packaged food. Public places, as well as at home around the holiday arrangements are voluntary. Grimace pumpkin lights, white and black spider nets, which are all decorated with holiday has completely without frightening the ghost color. Some female students have obvious reasons to buy at this time would be a pair of pumpkin or a ghost skull earrings to wear. Which layout do if there is too much horror, and would be subjected to the parties concerned to stop the media exposure will make it so that the public blame. Halloween costumes, but also relative to 10000 million people, not monotony of the big ghost imp. There are many channels to teach people how to make Halloween costumes. For example, the simplest of ghosts produced clothing with a white sheet on top of his head, do not forget to buckle two holes to stay out of the eye that is; if they want to play a magician, put on black black pants, and then wear a black hat , and the hat with his head hidden between a plush bunny back; also taught adults how to dress their children into small angel, white Bai Ku, and then how to tie a flashlight from behind the head; also have to teach how to dress their children into their like the cartoon image. Of course, costumes and props industry, business people are more to do in the article. Halloween is not school holidays. Sometimes the school come forward to organize parties, and sometimes unwilling students will host their own mini-show; while friends and family of human inter-Ji Heka wish Happy Halloween has become popular among the custom every year in October. Today, advances in the Internet makes it easier to send Halloween cards economy, and some sites even inspired to design a variety of animation with sound effects Halloween cards, such as: etc., free of charge so that everyone to use. In short, Halloween has become a very common Westerners seasonal festivals. Many people see this as the end of autumn and winter's arrival. Halloween is over, people began to look forward to Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and even the New Year.

Halloween is celebrated on October 31st every year. China directly uses "Halloween" to refer to "Halloween Eve" and "Halloween" is used to mean Halloween on November 1. Halloween originated from the ancient Celtic New Year's Festival, this is also the time to sacrifice the dead soul, in order to avoid the evil spirit interference, but also with food worship of the ancestors and good spirits to pray for peace through the winter. That night, children would put on makeup and masks and go door-to-door to collect candy.

万圣节的起源英文版

一年中最”闹鬼“的这天夜里，各种妖魔鬼怪、 海盗、 外星来客和巫婆们纷纷出动。在这个万圣节，我给大家准备了万圣节的起源英语介绍，一起来看一下吧!

Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films arevery happy.

Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

History

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)".

The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".Snap-Apple Night (1832) by Daniel Maclise.Depicts apple bobbing and divination games at a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland.The name 'Halloween' and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era.

The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day.[4] Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556.

11月1日 -- 万圣节 All Saints' Day

11月2日 -- 墨西哥的鬼节 Day of Death

万圣节(All Saints' Day, All Hallow's Day或Hallowmas) 是每年11月1日 的欧美大节日。

Halloween 是 All Hallows Eve 的缩写，万圣节前夜的意思，指10月31日的晚上。

For thousands of years people have been celebrating different holidays and festivals at the end of October. The Celts celebrated it as Samhain (pronounced “sow-in”, with “sow” rhyming with cow)。 The Irish English dictionary published by the Irish Texts Society defines the word as follows:

“Samhain, All Hallowtide, the feast of the dead in Pagan and Christian times, signalizing the close of harvest and the initiation of the winter season, lasting till May, during which troops (esp. the Fiann) were quartered. Faeries were imagined as particularly active at this season. From it the half year is reckoned. also called Feile Moingfinne (Snow Goddess)。

(1) The Scottish Gaelis Dictionary defines it as ”Hallowtide. The Feast of All Soula. Sam + Fuin = end of summer.“(2) Contrary to the information published by many organizations, there is no archaeological or literary evidence to indicate that Samhain was a deity. The Celtic Gods of the dead were Gwynn ap Nudd for the British, and Arawn for the Welsh. The Irish did not have a ”lord of death“ as such.

The Celts believed that every year on the last day of October, the souls of the dead visited the earth.www.

When the Romans conquered the Celts in the first century A.D., they added parts of their festivals, Feralia and Pomona to the tradition. Feralia was a festival to honor the dead and Pomona was a harvest festival named after the goddess of fruit (apples) and trees.

Around the eigth century, the Christian church made November 1 All Saints' Day to honor all of the saints that didn't have a special day of their own. Over the years these festivals combined, the mass held on All Saints' Day was called Allhallowmas (the mass of all Hallows - saintly people)。 The night before was known as All Hallows Eve. Eventually this name became Halloween.

In the 1800s, as a lot of people emigrated to the U.S., the holidays and traditions of different cultures merged. Halloween was not always a happy time. October 31, or the night before took on other names. Some called it Devil's or Hell night, to others it was mischief night. Here in Vermont, the night before is called cabbage night.

To some people this became a time to play tricks on others. Some of these tricks were not fun at all. Luckily, community groups and individuals took action and started to change Halloween into a family event. Dressing up in costumes and going ”trick or treating“, costume parades, community parties and Fall festivals are some of the ways that Halloween is celebrated today.

Other countries have different Fall festivals to honor the deceased.

The Festival of the Dead is one of the most important happenings in both Palermo and the rest of Sicily. The second of November is a festival day for the children of Palermo as, according to tradition,they were made to believe that their dead relatives would return the night before and leave them traditional sweets and cakes on the table (Martorana fruit, which is almond paste made into the shape of different fruit)。 They would also receive puppets of boiled sugar and toys. It's one way of keeping the memory of their dead relatives and loved ones alive.