Halloween, also known as Halloween, is directly translated into Halloween in Chinese. Halloween is a traditional festival in western countries, which falls on 10 and 3 1 every year. At this time, it is also the time to worship the dead. While avoiding the interference of evil spirits, we also worship our ancestors and kind gods with food and pray for a safe winter.

At that time, people believed that the soul of the old friend would revisit the old place on this day, looking for life among the living, so as to regenerate. So people put out the fire and candlelight on this day, so that ghosts can't find the living. They dress up as monsters to scare these ghosts away. This is why most westerners celebrate Halloween in the form of ghosts now.

Later, Halloween spread to North America and other regions. With the passage of time, the meaning of Halloween has gradually changed, becoming active and happy. On that night, children will dress up and put on masks, collect candy from house to house and shout the slogan of "trick or treat". Such as pumpkin lantern, apple toffee, pumpkin pie, masquerade, etc. , are the classic elements of western countries to celebrate Halloween.

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Every June 65438+1October 3 1, trick-or-treating children can get a lot of candy. In fact, according to the data of American Candy Association, Halloween candy sales rank first in all kinds of festivals, even surpassing Christmas, Easter and Valentine's Day.

The American Candy Association (NCA) predicts that the sales of Halloween candy will reach $200 million in the United States alone in 2003. Usually, more than 85% families in the United States will distribute candy on Halloween.

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