This year is the annual April Fool's day. I believe many people have been fooled by their friends on this day, but it is a festival that people default to be joking and pranking, so we can't be angry about it. So why play tricks on April Fool's day? What is the meaning of April Fool's Day pranks? This article will tell you why April Fool's Day pranks and the significance of April Fool's Day pranks. Let's have a look.
1. The 'fun Festival' (March 25) in ancient Rome and the 'fool's Day' (December 28) in medieval Europe are regarded as the predecessor of April Fool's day.
2. According to legend, the famous English poet Chaucer was the first to associate April 1 with fooling others. In his 1392 work Canterbury Tales, a conceited cock was fooled by a fox on this day. Although some scholars disagree with this, ordinary readers usually accept this statement. By the 16th and 17th centuries, some European poets and writers also mentioned April 1 in their works
It's a matter of pranks and fools.
3. In 1564, King Charles IX of France decided to adopt a new and reformed chronology: the Gregorian calendar (i.e. the universal Gregorian calendar), which took new year's day as the beginning of the new year, changing the previous beginning of the new year on April 1. However, some conservatives oppose this reform and still send New Year gifts and celebrate the new year according to the old calendar. Those who advocate reform make a mockery of these practices of the Conservatives, give them fake gifts and invite them to fake parties. Since then, playing tricks on people on this day has spread. When a person is deceived, the person who plays tricks on him will shout: 'April Fool' means' April prank '. Smart and funny people give them fake gifts on April 1, invite them to a fake reception, and call the deceived conservatives' April Fools' or 'hooked fish'. Since then, people have fooled each other on April 1, which has become a popular custom in France. In the early 18th century, the April Fool's Day custom spread to Britain, and then was brought to the United States by early British immigrants.
4. According to the textual research of British historians: 'April Fool's Day' originated from the saying 'reach the other side' of Indian Buddhism. In the Encyclopedia of England, it is recorded that 'April Fool's Day' was a lying Festival after the religious revolution in the 15th century. At that time, King Philip II of Spain established a 'heresy tribunal', which was regarded as heresy as long as it was not a Catholic, and was sentenced to capital punishment, that is, the death penalty, on April 1 every year. The subjects felt very terrible, so they enjoyed lying and teasing every day to dilute their fear and hatred of the rulers. Since then, it has been used for a long time and evolved into today's' April Fool's Day '.
5. Christianity believes that April Fool's Day is to commemorate the day of Jesus' crucifixion. Before Jesus was crucified, he was forced to run around. Later generations commemorate him on April 1. In fact, it has the meaning of vigilance.