History Of Halloween In America

With the increasing of interactions between the countries, the Chinese culture is going to diversity. The more younger Chinese people have interest to celebrate the holiday which belongs to other countries. The most interests me is the Halloween which is from America. According to the articleThe Fantasy and Folklore of All Hallows, Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead. The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the ghosts of the dead would return to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging

As the beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups as well as the American Indians meshed, a distinctly American version of Halloween began to emerge. The first celebration included “play parties”. The public events held to celebrate the harvest, where neighbors would share ghost stories, dance and sing. Until the second half of the nineteenth century, The new immigrants, especially the millions of Irish, flooded in America. Taking from Irish and English traditions, Americans began to dress up in customers and go course to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today’s “trick-or-treat” tradition. In the late 1800s, the Halloween was molded into a holiday more about community and neighborly pieties about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft. For both children and adults, Halloween parties had became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season and festival customers. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious