Why Halloween Is Important?

What day is Halloween? Why do we have to dress up and dress in a hideous way on this day... Let's find out in detail about this special holiday.

What is Halloween?

Every year on October 31, many countries often celebrate Halloween. Halloween will run from midnight until twelve o'clock at night. People will transform into ghostly forms, dress up and play freely on this day.

Halloween is the abbreviation for All Hallows'Eve (the night before All Saints' Day). The first day of November is chosen by Catholics to be the intercession ceremony for the lost souls, so a day before that, the souls will wander the earth for the last time. In 2020, Halloween falls on a Thursday, surely the followers who love this carnival have prepared for themselves the most suitable and outstanding costumes for this night.

Why does Halloween have pumpkins?

The typical symbol of Halloween is pumpkins carved with imaginary faces. The reason people choose pumpkins on this holiday is simply because it is a typical agricultural product of many regions, it can easily create scary faces according to the imagination.

The pumpkin is also associated with the story of the miser Jack-O'Lantern in the Irish folklore. Since then, pumpkin is associated with the symbolic image of the Halloween festival season. At this time, people will hang pumpkin lanterns in front of their houses in the hope that ghosts and spirits will not disturb them.

When introduced to many different countries, Halloween has been modified to suit each territory.

Meaning of Halloween

Educational Meaning

The first Halloween meaning is to advise people not to play with the devil. Demons here are understood figuratively as tricks, threats, making others afraid. In addition, we need to live without greed, not stinginess, miserliness, living with compassion and love...

Duplicate meaning

Halloween and the full moon of the seventh lunar month of our country can be considered as the day when the two realms of Yin and Yang meet in immense compassion. That will be the time when people from the underworld can appear on the yang world. And yang people can perform rituals to repay the people of the underworld.