万圣节 “南瓜灯” 居然不叫 pumpkin lantern？

今天是万圣节前夜。

你们知道万圣夜和万圣节的区别吗？

11月1日的是万圣节，

英文为 All Hallows' Day，

是天主教和东正教的宗教节日，

而我们常见的Halloween其实是指万圣夜，

也就是万圣节的前一天晚上。

The name Halloween comes from a contraction of All Hallows Eve (Evening), the day before All Hallows Day. On this night it was believed that the spirits of the dead would try to come back to life!

Halloween是All Hallows Eve的缩写。而All Hallows Eve(夜晚)是All Hallows Day 的前一天。人们认为在这天晚上，亡者的灵魂会重新复活!

Their origin comes from an Irish myth about Stingy Jack, who tricked the Devil for his own monetary gain. When Jack died, God didn’t allow him into heaven, and the Devil didn’t let him into hell, so Jack was sentenced to roam the earth for eternity. In Ireland, people started to carve demonic faces out of turnips to frighten away Jack’s wandering soul. When Irish immigrants moved to the U.S., they began carving jack-o’-lanterns from pumpkins, as these were native to the region.

南瓜灯的起源可以追溯到爱尔兰的关于吝啬鬼杰克(Stingy Jack)的神话故事，他为了自己获利而欺骗魔鬼。杰克死后，上帝不让他进入天堂，魔鬼也不让他进入地狱，所以杰克只能在人间永远流浪。在爱尔兰，人们开始用萝卜或者大头菜雕刻恶魔的脸，以吓走杰克游荡的灵魂。当爱尔兰移民搬到美国后，他们开始用南瓜雕刻南瓜灯，因为南瓜是当地的特产。