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1、最新【万圣节英文手抄报Happy,Halloween】 万圣节英文简介英语资源网权威发布万圣节英文手抄报Happy Halloween，更多万圣节英文手抄报Happy Halloween相关信息请访问英语资源网。Halloween is one of the oldest holidays with origins going back thousands of years.The holiday has had many influences from many cultures over the centuries.From the Romans Pomona Day,to the Cel
2、tic festival of Samhain,to the Christian holidays of All Saints and All Souls Days.Hundreds of years ago in what is now Great Britain and Northern France,lived the Celts (凯尔特人),who worshipped (崇拜) nature and had many gods,with the sun god as their favorite.They celebrated their New Year on November
3、1st which was made every year with a festival and marked the end of the season of the sun and the beginning of the season of darkness and cold. On October 31st after the crops were all harvested and stored for the long winter the cooking fires in the homes would be extinguished (消失).The Druids,the C
4、eltic priests,would meet in the hilltop in the dark oak forest (oak trees were considered sacred).They would light new fires and offer sacrifices of crops and animals.As they danced around the fires,the season of the sun passed and the season of darkness would begin.When the morning arrived the Drui
5、ds would give an ember from their fires to each family who would then take them home to start new cooking fires.These fires would keep the homes warm and free from evil spirits.The November 1st festival was called Samhain (pronounced sow-en).The festival would last for 3 days.Many people would parad
6、e in costumes made from the skins and heads of their animals.This festival would become the first Halloween.The Celtics would carry a lantern (灯笼) when they walked on the eve of October 31.These lanterns were carved out of big turnips (大头菜) and the lights were believed to keep the evil spirits away.Children would carve faces in the turnips.These carved turnips were called jack-o-lanterns第 3 页 共 3 页