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What are the symbols of Halloween? What do you say about Halloween?

​&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203; Halloween is a traditional festival in western countries and China's Zhongyuan Festival, also known as' Ghost Festival '. On this day, many children will dress up as ghosts and go door-to-door to ask for candy. If they don't give candy, they will make trouble. Do you know the symbols of Halloween? What do you say about Halloween? Let's take a look at this article.

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What are the symbols of Halloween: jack-o-lantern, pumpkin, bat 1, jack-o-lantern

Jack lamp is the most well-known symbol of Halloween. In Britain and Ireland, locals used to light candles in hollowed turnips to make jack-o-lanterns, but immigrants to the United States soon used pumpkins instead, because pumpkins are larger and easy to carve patterns on them. Many families carve scary faces on pumpkins and put them on the class at the gate. Traditionally, this practice is to scare away demons or monsters.

2. Pumpkin

Pumpkin is orange, so orange has become the traditional Halloween color. Carving pumpkin lanterns out of pumpkins is also a Halloween tradition, and its history can be traced back to Ireland. It is said that a man named Jack is very stingy, so he can't enter heaven after death, and because he teases the devil, he can't enter hell, so he can only wander around with a lantern until judgment day.

So Jack and the pumpkin lantern became the symbol of the cursed wandering soul. In order to scare away these wandering souls on Halloween, people carved terrible faces with turnips, beets or potatoes to represent jack with lanterns. This is the origin of jack-o \ '- lantern.

After the Irish moved to the United States, they began to carve with pumpkins, because pumpkins are more abundant than turnips in the fall of the United States. Now, if people hang pumpkin lanterns on their windows on Halloween night, it shows that those in Halloween costumes can knock on the door and ask for candy. In pumpkin lanterns, people often put candles or some candy in them.

3. Bat

Bats come out day and night. It goes without saying that festivals celebrating the end of the bright season and the beginning of the dark season will include them. In addition, Halloween in the past also implied that huge bonfires attracted mosquitoes and moths, and they attracted bats, so bats were very common in the early days of savin Festival and late Halloween.

Apart from these reasonable explanations, bats are creepy. Some people think that these flying rodents can communicate with dead people. How they know is unknown. In addition, the legend of vampires was once a Halloween folklore. Bats established their status - people think vampires can become bats.

In addition, those who hunt witches believe that they can become scary animals, such as cats, bats and spiders; And vampire bats, who live on blood. Taken together, bats may be the most Halloween symbol.

What do you say about Halloween

Halloween is a traditional festival in western countries. This night is the most 'haunted' night of the year, so it is also called 'ghost day'. From midnight after Halloween, the theme of the night before is ghosts, scary, and things related to death, magic and demons. It lasted a whole day until November 1 the next day.

People at that time thought that on that night, the great God of death Saman would summon all the ghosts of the people who died that year, and these evil ghosts would be punished for being animals. Of course, the thought of such a gathering of ghosts was enough to frighten those simple minded fools at that time, so they lit a bonfire and closely monitored these evil spirits. The saying that there were witches and ghosts everywhere on Halloween began. It is still believed in some isolated areas of Europe.

It is also said that the souls of those who died in those years will visit the world on the eve of Halloween. All bonfires and lights not only scare away the ghosts, but also illuminate the route for the ghosts and guide them to return. The villagers disguised themselves as ghosts and elves and wandered outside the village to guide the ghosts to leave and avoid evil spirits and disasters. Therefore, Halloween disguised as ghosts has spread so far. Now throughout Europe, people regard Halloween as a good opportunity to have fun, tell ghost stories and scare each other.