Halloween.
Every year, on Oct 31, there’s a festival called Halloween. I have checked it in the dictionary, the definition is “The eve of All Saints’ Day”. In chinese, we call it “万圣节之夜”.
2000 years ago, Catholic of Europe made Nov 1st as All Hallows Day. Hallow means honor as holy. The legend from 500 B.C. The Celts lived in Ireland and Scotland moved the festival to Oct 31. They thought this day is the end of summer, and also the new year started, cold winter is coming. People who lived in that time thought ancestors’ soul would come back at this day, and find someone who was alive, then use their body to came alive, and it’s the only chance of ancestors who want to came alive again. People who still had their life is afraid of this, so that they don’t use fires that day to hide from the dead-men, and make up as a ghost to make ancestors ran far away due to afraid of “ghost”. In some old story, It showed that Celts would kill some people to sacrifice the ancestors.
Until the beginning of A.C. The Romans who was the new leader of Celts started to accept this kind of customs, but they don’t allowed killing people for sacrifices.
After that, the Romans has integrate their own way for celebrate the harvest and the way Celts celebrate All Hallows Day, ti became to make up as wild-animal or ghost to make the ghost around them. This is the reason why nowadays people will wear strange costumes on this day.
Times fly, the meaning of Halloween is changed, it start to be happy. The meaning which ghost who want to find a body to comeback alive is start to be forgotten by people.
Now I’m in America, I cannot find a good reason for not to goto West Hollywood for the big halloween party.
So that I rented a car again and went there with my friends. After I came back, I found that I cannot say anything because I cannot use any word to describe it, even in Chinese, my mother language, it cannot be described via one or two word.
Just see the pictures.
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