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1、最新万圣节的历史介绍（英语版） 英语版万圣节的小故事英语资源网权威发布万圣节的历史介绍（英语版），更多万圣节的历史介绍（英语版）相关信息请访问英语资源网。神秘的万圣节就要来了。以下就是有关万圣节的历史的英语介绍，供你阅读参考。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, celebra

2、tion 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 firs

3、t celebrations included play parties, public events held to celebrate the harvest, where neighbors would share stories of the dead, tell each others fortunes, dance, and sing. Colonial Halloween festivities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the middle of

4、 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 Irelands potato famine

5、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 todays trick-or-treat tradition. Young women believed that, on Ha

6、lloween, 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 get-togethers, 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 newsp第 3 页 共 3 页