halloween (or hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on october 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.
historythe word halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a scottish variant of the fuller all-hallows-even ("evening"), that is, the night before all hallows day.[4] although the phrase all hallows is found in old english (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), all-hallows-even is itself not attested until 1556.
11月1日 -- 万圣节 all saints' day
万圣节（all saints' day, all hallow's day或hallowmas） 是每年11月1日 的欧美大节日。
halloween 是 all hallows eve 的缩写，万圣节前夜的意思，指10月31日的晚上。
for thousands of years people have been celebrating different holidays and festivals at the end of october. the celts celebrated it as samhain （pronounced “sow-in”, with “sow” rhyming with cow）。 the irish english dictionary published by the irish texts society defines the word as follows:
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