万圣节的由来 （中英文对照）
三：The Origin of Halloween
Two thousand years ago, Europe's Catholic Church on November 1 as the "world day Saints" (ALL HALLOWS DAY). "HALLOW" meaning that the saints. BC Five hundred years since the legend, living in Ireland, Scotland
Comical faces carved pumpkin Jack
Portland and other places in the Celtic (CELTS) moved forward this festive day, that is, 10 31. They think that the formal end of the day is the day of the summer, that is, the new year, the beginning of the harsh winter day. At that time people believed that the spirits of the enemy back in the day to find the former residence of the body in the living creatures, to regeneration, and this is the man to be reborn after death, the only hope. And the living death of the soul are afraid to come and take away life, so people put out the fire on this day, candlelight, so that the soul can not find the living dead, gets himself dressed as ghosts and goblins to scare away the dead Souls. After the candle they will rekindle the fire to start the new year of life. Tribal Celtic legend was still in October 31 to pay homage to the dead kill the living customs.
To the 1st century AD, Celtic tribes occupied the territory of the Roman people have gradually accepted the Halloween customs, but abolished the burning from the brutal practice of the living dead festival. Romans and the Celtic harvest festival celebrated with ceremony, wearing a scary mask, dressed up as animals or monsters, it is to get rid of their demons wandering around. This is most of the world today, people with weird dress, to celebrate the origin of Halloween. The passage of time, the meaning of Halloween has changed gradually, becoming an active happy, happy means into the mainstream. Dead soul back to the world to find a substitute for argument has gradually been abandoned and forgotten. Today, the symbol of Halloween images, pictures such as witches, black cats, etc., are friendly and cute and big funny face.
After the Roman emperor Constantine to Christ, establish Christianity as the state religion, then Christianity has evolved into a real Catholic. Constantine ordered the country people have converted to Christianity, the results did not repent of the pagans joined the church, brought in the various pagan style, including the dead festival, they have to maintain the festival as part of life.
As the church can not eliminate people's pagan custom, only the part of the customs and sanctified, in particular, died Oct. 3 day festival. In the eighth century, Pope set Nov. 1 as All Saints Day (All Saints' Day), to remember the martyrdom of the saints of all the history of the church. This date is October Sayi the eve of All Saints Day. Catholic Church will allow people a feast day on October Sayi, because Nov. 1 is the holy day. Later, All Saint's Day became All Hallows Day, the hallows are "holy" means October Sayi day is Halloween (All Hallows Evening). Evening was later reduced to eve and een, the former is "on the eve of" means, which is short for evening, which means "night", has become today's Halloween, on behalf of death-day festival is the eve of Halloween. Chinese simply called the October 3 一日 Halloween, in fact, that translated as "All Souls Day."
