万圣节历史介绍（英语版）
关万圣节历史英语介绍
神秘万圣节关万圣节历史英语介绍供阅读参考
as european immigrants came to america they brought their varied halloween customs with them because of the rigid protestant belief systems that characterized early new england celebration of halloween in colonial times was extremely limited there
it was much more common in maryland and the southern colonies 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 celebrations included play parties public events held to celebrate the harvest where neighbors would share stories of the dead tell each other＇s fortunes dance and sing colonial halloween festivities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischiefmaking of all kinds by the middle of the nineteenth century annual autumn festivities were common but halloween was not yet celebrated everywhere in the country
in the second half of the nineteenth century america was flooded with new immigrants these new immigrants especially the millions of irish fleeing ireland＇s potato famine of 1846 helped to popularize the celebration of halloween nationally taking from irish and english traditions americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money a practice that eventually became today＇s trickortreat tradition young women believed that on halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn apple parings or mirrors
in the late 1800s there was a move in america to mold halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly gettogethers than about ghosts pranks and witchcraft
at the turn of the century halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day parties focused on games foods of the season and festive costumes parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything frightening or grotesque out of halloween celebrations because of their efforts halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century
by the 1920s and 1930s halloween had become a secular but communitycentered holiday with parades and townwide parties as the featured entertainment despite the best efforts of many schools and communities vandalism began to plague halloween celebrations in many communities during this time by the 1950s town leaders had successfully limited vandalism and halloween had evolved into a holiday directed mainly at the young due to the high numbers of young children during the fifties baby boom parties moved from town civic centers into the classroom or home where they could be more easily accommodated between 1920 and 1950 the centuriesold practice of trickortreating was also revived trickortreating was a relatively inexpensive way for an entire community to share the halloween celebration in theory families could also prevent tricks being played on them by providing the neighborhood children with small treats a new american tradition was born and it has continued to grow today americans spend an estimated 69 billion annually on halloween making it the country＇s second largest commercial holiday
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关万圣节历史英语介绍
神秘万圣节关万圣节历史英语介绍供阅读参考
as european immigrants came to america they brought their varied halloween customs with them because of the rigid protestant belief systems that characterized early new england celebration of halloween in colonial times was extremely limited there
it was much more common in maryland and the southern colonies 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 celebrations included play parties public events held to celebrate the harvest where neighbors would share stories of the dead tell each other＇s fortunes dance and sing colonial halloween festivities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischiefmaking of all kinds by the middle of the nineteenth century annual autumn festivities were common but halloween was not yet celebrated everywhere in the country
in the second half of the nineteenth century america was flooded with new immigrants these new immigrants especially the millions of irish fleeing ireland＇s potato famine of 1846 helped to popularize the celebration of halloween nationally taking from irish and english traditions americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money a practice that eventually became today＇s trickortreat tradition young women believed that on halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn apple parings or mirrors
in the late 1800s there was a move in america to mold halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly gettogethers than about ghosts pranks and witchcraft
at the turn of the century halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day parties focused on games foods of the season and festive costumes parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything frightening or grotesque out of halloween celebrations because of their efforts halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century
by the 1920s and 1930s halloween had become a secular but communitycentered holiday with parades and townwide parties as the featured entertainment despite the best efforts of many schools and communities vandalism began to plague halloween celebrations in many communities during this time by the 1950s town leaders had successfully limited vandalism and halloween had evolved into a holiday directed mainly at the young due to the high numbers of young children during the fifties baby boom parties moved from town civic centers into the classroom or home where they could be more easily accommodated between 1920 and 1950 the centuriesold practice of trickortreating was also revived trickortreating was a relatively inexpensive way for an entire community to share the halloween celebration in theory families could also prevent tricks being played on them by providing the neighborhood children with small treats a new american tradition was born and it has continued to grow today americans spend an estimated 69 billion annually on halloween making it the country＇s second largest commercial holiday
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