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Most Japanese people would think Halloween is just a Costume Contest for Party animals. That meant no one actually “celebrates” Halloween. I really agree with that opinion. For me, every year the day is just the usual end of the month. That meant just being very busy. I always didn’t want to go outside on this day, just in order to avoid congestion, typically while living in Tokyo.
Speaking of Halloween, now I’m really surprised because most Canadians seem to take care of Halloween seriously. I mean, they started to decorate their house in the middle of October and we can see large pumpkins for sale in large quantities in grocery stores. I was like, they are really celebrating this event, they and their children are most likely to say “trick or treat” on the day seriously. That’s interesting.
At the same time, I wondered what exactly Halloween is. I don’t know why they want to scare me in such a typical way. Therefore, I asked my friend Google and let me introduce you to Halloween today. I attached the link to the references in the explanation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-TR35esdMA
https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween
According to Google, Halloween was started by The Celt who lived 2 000 years ago in an area which is now known as Ireland, Scotland, the UK, and parts of Northern Europe. They celebrated their new year on November 1st the day which marked the end of summer and the beginning of the dark cold winter. I finally realized the origin of Halloween is like 冬至(Touji) in Japan, it is about 20days later, though. It is very interesting because we also eat Kabocha, which is similar to Pumpkin.
Back to the stories, The Celt believed that the night before the new year the ghost would come to the world of the living and the boundaries between the two worlds would blur. Hence to protect themselves they celebrated the festival on October 31st, modernly known as Halloween. Surprisingly enough, it is also similar to お盆(Obon) in Japan. You know what? We Japanese do almost the same thing every summer even though we don’t pretend to be dead.
By the way, here is one of the most interesting things about Halloween. Speaking of the other aspect of Halloween, One-quarter of all the candy sold annually in the U.S. is purchased for Halloween. What a big industry in the states! I found It is like Valentine's day in Japan.
Anyways, I found out that the story about Halloween has several similarities to Japanese customs. It is as if the world has become together.
Happy Halloween!
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Most Japanese people would think Halloween is just a Costume Contest for Party animals. That meant no one actually “celebrates” Halloween. I really agree with that opinion. For me, every year the day is just the usual end of the month. That meant just being very busy. I always didn’t want to go outside on this day, just in order to avoid congestion, typically while living in Tokyo.
Speaking of Halloween, now I’m really surprised because most Canadians seem to take care of Halloween seriously. I mean, they started to decorate their house in the middle of October and we can see large pumpkins for sale in large quantities in grocery stores. I was like, they are really celebrating this event, they and their children are most likely to say “trick or treat” on the day seriously. That’s interesting.
At the same time, I wondered what exactly Halloween is. I don’t know why they want to scare me in such a typical way. Therefore, I asked my friend Google and let me introduce you to Halloween today. I attached the link to the references in the explanation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-TR35esdMA
https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween
According to Google, Halloween was started by The Celt who lived 2 000 years ago in an area which is now known as Ireland, Scotland, the UK, and parts of Northern Europe. They celebrated their new year on November 1st the day which marked the end of summer and the beginning of the dark cold winter. I finally realized the origin of Halloween is like 冬至(Touji) in Japan, it is about 20days later, though. It is very interesting because we also eat Kabocha, which is similar to Pumpkin.
Back to the stories, The Celt believed that the night before the new year the ghost would come to the world of the living and the boundaries between the two worlds would blur. Hence to protect themselves they celebrated the festival on October 31st, modernly known as Halloween. Surprisingly enough, it is also similar to お盆(Obon) in Japan. You know what? We Japanese do almost the same thing every summer even though we don’t pretend to be dead.
By the way, here is one of the most interesting things about Halloween. Speaking of the other aspect of Halloween, One-quarter of all the candy sold annually in the U.S. is purchased for Halloween. What a big industry in the states! I found It is like Valentine's day in Japan.
Anyways, I found out that the story about Halloween has several similarities to Japanese customs. It is as if the world has become together.
Happy Halloween!