Halloween is also called All Saints’ Day. It is a traditional Western holiday on November 1st each year; and October 31st, the eve of Halloween, is the most lively time of this festival. In Chinese, Halloween is often translated as All Saints’ Day.

To celebrate the advent of Halloween, children will dress up as cute ghosts and knock on doors from house to house, asking for candy, otherwise they will trick or treat. At the same time, it is said that on this night, various ghosts and monsters will dress up as children and mix into the crowd to celebrate the coming of Halloween, and humans will dress up as various ghosts in order to make the ghosts more harmonious.

The origin of Halloween

More than two thousand years ago, the Christian churches in Europe designated November 1 as “ALL HALLOWSDAY” (ALL HALLOWSDAY). “HALLOW” means saint. Legend has it that since 500 BC, Celts (CELTS) living in Ireland, Scotland and other places moved the festival one day forward, that is, October 31. They believe that this day is the day when the summer officially ends, that is, the day when the harsh winter begins at the beginning of the new year. At that time, it was believed that the dead souls of the deceased would return to their former residences to find creatures in the living people on this day, so as to regenerate, and this is the only hope for a person to be reborn after death.The living people are afraid of the dead souls to take their lives, so people put out the fire and candlelight on this day, so that the dead souls can’t find the living, and they dress themselves up as demons and ghosts to scare away the dead souls. After that, they will reignite the fire and candlelight to start a new year of life.