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On the annual Nov.1 is the traditional Western festival of “Ghost Holiday” – Halloween, and Oct. 31 is the eve of Halloween, it usually known as the night before Halloween. But the atmosphere on this day is far from “horrible” as its name sounds.
The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840’s by Irish immigrants fleeing their country’s potato famine. At that time, the favorite pranks in New England included tipping over outbuildings and unhinging fence gates.
The best known and featured custom of Halloween are just the two – fantastic “Jack’s Lantern” and prank “Trick or Treat”.
Every time at the arrival of Halloween, the children are all hurried to put on their colorful make-up costumes, wear various ridiculous masks on and carrying a “Jack Light” walk from house to house and begging for holiday gifts.
Trick or Treat
The custom of trick-or-treat is thought to have originated not with the Irish Celts, but with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to village and begging for “soul candies”, made out of square pieces of bread with raisins.
The more soul candies the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could speed up a soul’s path to the heaven.
This is an important part in Halloween days on the dining table, you not only should ready for enough candies and cakes to entertain those naughty “devilkins”, but also to deck out your table with elaborate care in this special day. Never to let your guests look down with you!
Jack’s Lantern
The “Jack’s Lantern” custom probably comes from Irish folklore. As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree’s trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.
According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.
The “Jack’s Lantern” looks very cute and lovely, and its could be bought out very simple: Take a pumpkin and hollowed out it, then engraved smiling eyes and a big mouth on the outside, then put a candle in and lit it, so people could able to see this naive and smiling face faraway, this is just the children’s favorite toy on Halloween.
The Irish used turnips as their “Jack’s lanterns” originally. But when the immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with an ember.
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In the most “haunted” night, all kinds of demons, pirates, witches and extraterrestrial visitors will turn out one after another. In the era before Christ, the Celtics have the custom of to hold a ceremony at the end of the summer to express thanks for the benefactions given by God and the Sun, diviners of the time will light up fires and apply witchcrafts to drive away the demons and spirits that wandering around.
Later, the custom of Romans that using nuts and apples to celebrate harvest was fused with the custom of Celtics on October 31, and In the Middle Ages, people were accustomed to put on costumes of animal designs, and worn terrible masks to drive away ghosts and demons in the night before Halloween. Although the Christianism had taken place of the Celtic and Roman’s religious activities later, these early Halloween customs have been kept down finally.
The Halloween we celebrate today includes all of these influences, Pomona Day’s apples, nuts, and harvest, the Festival of Samhain’s black cats, magic, evil spirits and death, and the ghosts, skeletons and skulls from All Saint’s Day and All Soul’s Day.
So, although some cults may have adopted Halloween as their favorite “holiday,” the day itself did not grow out of evil practices. It grew out of the rituals of Celts celebrating a new year, and out of Medieval prayer rituals of Europeans. And today, even many churches have Halloween parties or pumpkin carving events for the kids. After all, the day itself is only as evil as one cares to make it.
Today, children wear on a variety of Halloween costumes and masks jokingly to attend Halloween parties, and people has been familiar with the scene of various witches made of paper, black cats, skeletons and ghost figures hanging on the walls of the parties, also in front of windows and doors there are pumpkin lanterns with bare teeth and open mouths or formidable faces.
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0) The most popular game on the eve of Halloween is “Biting Apples”. In the game, people will put some apples floating in the water with a big basin, then let the children to bite at these apples without using their hands, and the winner is the first one who bite an apple successfully.
1) Halloween is always celebrated on 31 October.
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2) Halloween is one of the oldest celebrations in the world, dating back over 2000 years to the time of the Celts who lived in Britain
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3) Halloween is correctly spelt as Hallowe’en and Halloween is also known by other names:
- All Hallows Eve
- Samhain
- All Hallowtide
- The Feast of the Dead
- The Day of the Dead
- Nos Calan Gaeaf (Halloween in Welsh)
4) In Mexico, they celebrate Halloween or the Day of the Dead starting the evening of October 31.
5) When the Romans conquered England, they merged Samhain with their own festivals, a harvest festival called Poloma, and a celebration for the dead called Feralia.
6) When Christianity came to England and the rest of Europe, 1 November became All Saints Day – a day dedicated to all those saints who didn’t have a special day of their own. They performed a mass called ‘All hallows mass’ and the night before became known as All Hallows E’en and eventually Hallowe’en or Halloween.
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7) Black cats were originally believed to protect witches’ powers from negative forces.
About 99% of pumpkins sold are used as Jack O’ Lanterns at Halloween.
9) It is thought that the colors orange and black became Halloween colors because orange is associated with harvests (Halloween masks the end of harvest) and black is associated with death.
10) A pumpkin is really a squash, and comes from the same family as the cucumber.
11) The biggest pumpkin in the world tipped the scales at a whopping 1,446 pounds. This gigantic gourd was weighed in October 2004 at a pumpkin festival in Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
12) Top Tips for Halloween: If your pumpkin lantern shrivels up, you can restore it by soaking it overnight in water to rehydrate it.
13) The very first jack o’ lantern was made out of hollowed out turnips.
14) The record for the fastest pumpkin carver in the world is Jerry Ayers of Baltimore, Ohio. He carved a pumpkin in just 37 seconds!
15) If you see a spider on this night, it could be the spirit of a dead loved one who is watching you.
16) Ringing a bell on Halloween eve scares evil spirits away.
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17) If you want to meet a witch, put your clothes on inside out and walk backwards on Halloween night.
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The Design Colors used in Halloween Decoration
— Orange is the Themed Color of Halloween Â
Echoes with “Jackâ??s Lantern”, the color black and orange are traditional colors on the eve of Halloween, and the representatives of black there are black cats, spiders and witches, while the representative of orange is pumpkin lantern (Jack-O’-Lantern), all these decorations are familiar symbols of Halloween.
During the Halloween, you could deck the large dinning table in your home with orange, yellow and green thus to produce a thick ambience of village, accompanied with rural music emitted from stereo, oh! It’s so warm and cozy!
Today, a mass of purple, green and red have begun been used with Halloween decorations. If the home furnishings in your dining room are more suited with these colors, well then they could also bring you great inspirations for your holiday decoration.
* Symbols of Halloween
— Pumpkin is The Most Popular Figure in Halloween Â
Among all symbols of Halloween, the pumpkin figure is most popular
Halloween also called “Ghost Holiday” in the West, so many symbols of the Halloween are themed with ghosts and demons, but among them there are also lovely symbols like pumpkin lanterns and scarecrows. Whether on a Jackâ??s Lantern in your hands or those furnishings on dining table or in dining room, pumpkins could be seen everywhere.
Try and take some minds for the festival, you can choose some storage tanks, small decorations that shaped in “pumpkin head”, or use your hands to make some napkins, placemats that formed into big pumpkins, with these you could dress your table uniquely and full of moods, which is very important for holding a successful party.
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— Special Ideas for Halloween Decoration
An exquisite candle holder could bring more fun to Halloween decorations easily for us, and to choose candlestick as a Halloween decoration also is very economical. You only should to spend a small amount of money and buy a variety of novel candleholders to deck your dining table in holiday, whose wonderful patterns and aromas could show your high taste prominently. Even these candlesticks are only been displayed on the dining side-tables, they could also acted as kind of elegant embellishments for your happy life. The base of iron candlestick could bring a qualified sense of weight, matched with long candles in solid colors, it can reflect out dazzling sheens.
Simple structure is also a bright spot in the design of this type of candlesticks, using them to deck your dining table could produce unique flavors in Halloween. And small candlesticks are also a good choice, the color of light rose could foil joyful moods well and bring more warm to this festival, and leave you beautiful memories to this special holiday too.
When we choose home furnishings for decoration, flower is always an important factor that could bring us joy and beauty, so in Halloween our dining tables could not keep them away. You can select a bone china flower vase and several wild chrysanthemums matched with it, or to buy some dried flowers that stained with orange, all these are good ideas that keeping with the occasion and the time well.
No matter to choose what decoration or furnishings to decorate your home in this Halloween, I believe they could all bring surprises and enjoyments to our life. Even if you have never been abroad, and never enjoyed this holiday really, as long as you have mastered the furnishing skills of the home life, and as long as you could pay more intention to collect the knowledge of the life with home furnishings and home decoration, I believe you could become a true connoisseur of life and fashion finally.
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Birthday is a special occasion to celebrate and carry significance in a person’s life. People celebrate their birthday in different ways and with dear ones. On such an occasion, presenting a birthday gifts would make the birthday person feel special and a viable way to capture the moment eternally. In addition, birthday gifts also add fun and excitement to birthday party. So, one should be savvy while purchasing birthday gifts.
If you have already decided to purchase a birthday gift for someone that you admire and adore, then here are some rewarding ways to find the perfect gift. You have to consider the age of the recipient; hobbies and interest; relationship with you. Such thoughtful concerns will lead you to a fantastic birthday gift. However, it is also worthy to judge the features of a gift while purchasing it. Unusual birthday gifts are sure to make the date memorable and make feel the recipient someone special. The exceptional and wonderful gifts promise to bring smiles on the recipient’s face. You can easily find such attractive and splendid birthday gift ideas in internet. Internet shopping facilitates you to shop according to your financial ability.
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Birthday gifts are fabulous way to send birthday wishes and also express that he/she is someone who should be admired in a unique way.
To send birthday wishes and hearty feelings on someone?s birthday the best way is to present a birthday gifts . Birthday gifts are exquisite and wonderful that make birthday occasions full of fun and excitement.
Valentines presents can be a tough thing to pick out for men. Most men try to go with the most popular thing they see on the shelves, which is what every other women is most likely getting. You want to be one step ahead of the other guys when this holiday rolls around. Women love to brag to their friends on what they got for Valentines Day, and with this big chance to show how much you care, the important thing is how much thought went into the gift, not how much money you spent.
You want to make sure that your Valentines present, is a good one that will get you’re the brownie points that you need. Women love to be pampered and taken care of so you know that you can’t go wrong with a romantic dinner and dancing with just the two of you. Sometimes we all get caught up in the daily chores and work that we forget to take time for each other. You can make Valentines Day a day that the two of you just pay attention to each other and forget the rest of the world.
Make reservations at her favorite restaurant or be bold and go for one that is just a little bit out of the way so you can have her all to yourself. You can pick a place that the two of you have never been to that offer a band as well so you can enjoy some dancing after dinner. There are many places that have one area as a restaurant and another area as a dance club so you can have the best of both in one place. Many hotels have in-house restaurants and clubs, and you can often get a heavily discounted deal that includes a meal along with a night at the hotel. This can ensure not only that you have some quality time together, but that you also didn’t have to spend a fortune.
You want to be sure to surprise her with some sort of gift at dinner. Keeping her waiting until the last minute of the day is a great way to build suspense and keep her guessing right up till the last minute. Jewelry is always a good choice. Women love jewelry and no matter how long the two of you have been together you can find something that will be just right such as a necklace, bracelet or earrings. You can go more elaborate if you are in a serious relationship such as diamonds.
Women love to get pampered with Valentines Gifts so you want to be sure to take this day and let her know how special she is and that you want to be with her and only her. Dinner and dancing at her favorite place is always a good way to go. If you are not sure what she likes, then just ask her. She will be more than happy to pass on some ideas of what she would love to get or do for a memorable Valentines Day present.
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