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.
万圣节,是国际性节日庆祝10月31日.万圣节的活动包括糖果、鬼怪旅游,篝火,化装舞会,参观闹鬼的景点,雕刻火焰般双眼的-lanterns,阅读和看恐怖片的可怕的故事.爱尔兰移民带版本的传统到北美在十九世纪.其它西方国家接受了二十世纪后期的节日.万圣节是西方世界的几个国家,最常见的是在美国、加拿大、爱尔兰、波多黎各、日本、新西兰、英国,偶尔在澳大利亚的部分.在瑞典度假的所有圣徒的官员在11月的第一个星期六.
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(古代高卢人与不列颠人的一种宗教)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.
圣诞节是万圣节,这下最商业化的庆祝活动在美国和加拿大.这个古老的节日来源于北美,几百年前第一批欧洲移民踏上美洲大陆.
古代德鲁伊德教大不列颠放置很重视的一个赛季,"火焰节”,它是为3天(两天的).
其中一个节日被称作万圣节,它将从10月31日至11月1日.在这期间,他们认为,我们的世界之间的界限,死者的世界被削弱,允许刚刚死去的鬼魂穿越生活.
