万圣节的习俗有哪些呢?万圣节的习俗中英介绍(2)
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m called souling. On November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to village begging for “soul cakes,” made out of square pieces of bread with currants. The more soul cakes 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 expedite a soul’s passage to heaven.
The Jack-o-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 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.
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.
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万圣节是纪念庆祝10月31日晚,尤其是在服饰打扮儿童和挨家挨户上门收集糖果。这是在庆祝西方世界很多,不过大多数在美国,波多黎各,爱尔兰共和国的共同,英国,加拿大,以及增加在澳大利亚和新西兰的知名度。万圣节起源于爱尔兰作为异教徒的凯尔特人丰年祭,Samhain。爱尔兰,苏格兰和其他移民带来的传统旧版本北美在19世纪。大多数其他西方国家接受,作为美国流行文化在20世纪后期的一部分万圣节。
万圣节一词,其旧拼写万圣节,是由原来的全空洞的,甚至,因为这是前天晚上“万圣节日”(也称为“万圣节”)。在爱尔兰,这个名字是万圣节前夕,这个名字仍然是一些老年人使用。万圣节,有时也被称为万圣节前夜。这个节日是一个宗教节日当天在各个北欧异教传统,直到它拨基督教传教士和基督教给予解释。在墨西哥11月1日和2日是著名的“直径德洛杉矶穆埃”死亡之日。万圣节之夜也称为Pooky大概在命名后,普爱尔兰,一个顽皮的精神部分。在澳大利亚,有时称为“恶作剧之夜”,由当地人。
万圣节,有时候是因为神秘。许多欧洲的文化传统认为,万圣节是一年中阈限的时代精神时,其中一个世界上可以与现实世界接触,当是最强大的魔法(例如关于女巫加泰罗尼亚神话)。
万圣节是一个一年一度的庆祝活动,但到底什么才是真正的庆祝活动?又是如何这一特殊习俗起源的?难道,像一些人所说,是恶魔崇拜呢?或者它仅仅是一些古老的异教仪式无害的痕迹?
这个词本身,“万圣节”,实际上是在天主教会的起源。它来自一个万圣节前夕承包腐败。 11月1日,“所有空心日”(或“万圣节”),是一种荣誉的纪念天主教圣徒一天。但是,在公元前5世纪,爱尔兰的凯尔特人,10月31日正式结束夏季。这个节日被称为Samhain(播种恩),凯尔特新年。
一个故事说,在这一天,所有那些谁在整个前一年去世会来的活体搜索返回的游魂拥有下一年度。这被认为是他们对来世的唯一希望。凯尔特人相信所有空间和时间的法律在此期间暂停,让世界的精神与生活混为一谈。 当然,仍然生活不想被占有。所以在10月31日晚,村民们扑灭大火家园,使他们感冒,并不可取。然后,他们将打扮成各种残忍的方式,大肆服装居民区周围的游行,被视为破坏尽可能以吓跑寻找精神的机构拥有。
可能是更好的解释为什么凯尔特人熄灭的大火并没有阻止神附体,但至今所有的凯尔特部落可能重新点燃一个共同的源头,从他们的火灾,火灾的Druidic被关在爱尔兰中燃烧,在Usinach。
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