Halloween,is an international holiday celebrated on October 31.Halloween activities include trick-or-treating,ghost tours,bonfires,costume parties,visiting haunted attractions,carving Jack-o'-lanterns,reading scary stories and watching horror movies.Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century.Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century.Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world,most commonly in the United States,Canada,Ireland,Puerto Rico,Japan,New Zealand,United Kingdom and occasionally in parts of Australia.In Sweden the All Saints' official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November.
萬圣節(jié),是國(guó)際性節(jié)日慶祝10月31日.萬圣節(jié)的活動(dòng)包括糖果、鬼怪旅游,篝火,化裝舞會(huì),參觀鬧鬼的景點(diǎn),雕刻火焰般雙眼的-lanterns,閱讀和看恐怖片的可怕的故事.愛爾蘭移民帶版本的傳統(tǒng)到北美在十九世紀(jì).其它西方國(guó)家接受了二十世紀(jì)后期的節(jié)日.萬圣節(jié)是西方世界的幾個(gè)國(guó)家,最常見的是在美國(guó)、加拿大、愛爾蘭、波多黎各、日本、新西蘭、英國(guó),偶爾在澳大利亞的部分.在瑞典度假的所有圣徒的官員在11月的第一個(gè)星期六.
Next to Christmas,Halloween is the most commercialized celebration in the United States and Canada.This ancient festival originated far from North America however,and centuries before the first European set foot on the continent.
The ancient Druids 督伊德教(古代高盧人與不列顛人的一種宗教)的教徒 who inhabited what we now call Great Britain placed great importance on the passing of one season to the next,holding "Fire Festivals" which were celebrated for three days (two days on either side of the day itself).
One of these festivals was called Samhain (pronounced Sha-Von) and it took place on October 31 through to November 1.During this period,it was believed that the boundaries between our world and the world of the dead were weakened,allowing spirits of the recently dead to cross over and possess the living.
圣誕節(jié)是萬圣節(jié),這下最商業(yè)化的慶祝活動(dòng)在美國(guó)和加拿大.這個(gè)古老的節(jié)日來源于北美,幾百年前第一批歐洲移民踏上美洲大陸.
古代德魯伊德教大不列顛放置很重視的一個(gè)賽季,"火焰節(jié)”,它是為3天(兩天的).
其中一個(gè)節(jié)日被稱作萬圣節(jié),它將從10月31日至11月1日.在這期間,他們認(rèn)為,我們的世界之間的界限,死者的世界被削弱,允許剛剛死去的鬼魂穿越生活.