愚人節的英文介紹

愚人節的英文介紹

愚人節的英文介紹

愚人節（April Fool's Day或All Fools' Day），也稱萬愚節、幽

默節，時間為4月1日，并未被任何國家認定為法定節日。下面是店

鋪為大家收集的愚人節的.英文介紹，僅供參考，歡迎大家閱讀。

愚人節英語是：Fools' Day

下面是用英文介紹愚人節：

April Fools' Day is a day to play jokes on others, No one

knows how this holiday began but people think it first started in

France.

In the 16 th century, people celebrated New Year's Day from

March 25 to April 1. In the mid—1560s King Charles IX changed

it from March 25 to January 1. But some people still celebrated

in on April 1, so others called them April Fools.

Each country celebrates April Fools' Day differently. In France,

people call the April Fools "April Fish". They tape a paper fish to

their friends' backs to fool them. When he or she finds this , they

shout "April Fish!"

In England, people play jokes only in the morning. You are a

"noodle" if someone fools you. In Scotland, April Fools' Day is 48

hours long. They call an April Fool "April Gowk". Gowk is another

name for a cuckoo bird.

In the America, people play small jokes on their friends and

any other people on the first of Aprol. They may point down to

your shoe and say, " Your shoelace is untied." If you believe them

and look down to e, you are an April Fool then.

April Fool's Day 愚人節

1st April is a day to be careful, or you could easily get tricked

by someone. It's April Fool's Day, a "for-fun-only" obrvance, a

day when people traditionally like to try to make a fool of

someone el and laugh at them.

Origins（愚人節起源）

There are lots of theories surrounding the origins of the day.

As we look back in time, many ancient predecessors of April

Fool's Day are found.

A French legendry 法國關于愚人節的傳說

The most widespread theory about the origin of April Fool's

Day links the day to the calendar reform in France.

In 1582 France became the first country to switch from the

Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. This meant that the

beginning of the year was moved from the end of March 25th

and April 1st, various jokes would be played on him. This story

might explain why April 1st became the date of the modern

holiday.

Mythological roots 關于愚人節的神話起源

There have been quite a few attempts to provide

mythological explanations for the ri of April Fool's Day.

One story dates back to Roman mythology, particularly the

myth of Ceres and Prorpina. In Roman mythology Pluto, the

God of the dead, abducted Prorpina called out to her mother

Ceres for help. But Ceres, who could only hear the echo of her

daughter'svoice, arched in vain for Prorpina. The fruitless

arch of Ceres for her daughter was commemorated during the

Roman festival of Cerealia and believed by some to have been

the mythological antecedent of the fool's errands popular on

April 1st.

British folklore 英國民間傳說

British folklore links April Fool's Day to the town of Gotham.

According to the legend, it was traditional in the 13th century for

any road that the King travelled over to become public property.

People in Gotham didn't want to lo their main road and spread

a fal story to stop the King. A mesnger was nt to Gotham

after King John learned the people's trick. But when the

mesnger arrived in Gotham he found the town was full of

lunatics who were engaged in foolish activities such as drowning

fish or attempting to cage birds in roofless fences. The King fell

for the hoax and declared the town too foolish to warrant

punishment. And ever since then, April Fool's Day has suppodly

commemorated their trickery.

Anthropological explanations 人類學的解釋

Anthropological and cultural historians provide their own

explanations for the ri of April Fool's Day. According to them,

the celebration traces its roots back to festivals marking the

springtime.

Spring is the time of year when the weather becomes fickle,

as if Nature is playing tricks on man, and festivals occurring

during the spring traditionally mirrored this n of whimsy and

surpri. They often involved temporary inversions of the social

order. Normal behavior no longer governed during the brief

moment of transition as the old world died and the new cycle of

asons was born. Jokes, trickery, and the turning upside down

of status expectations were all allowed.

In addition, the linkage between April Fool's Day and the

springtime is en in another story that traces the origin of the

custom back to the abundance of fish to be found in French

streams during early April when the young fish had just hatched.

The young fish were easy to fool with a hook and lure.

Therefore, the French called them "Poisson d'Avril" or "April Fish".

Soon it became customary to fool people on April 1st, as a way

of celebrating the abundance of "foolish" fish.

Celebrated 慶祝活動

In France today, April first is called "Poisson d'Avril." French

children fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends'

backs. When the "young fool" discovers this trick, the prankster

yells "Poisson d'Avril!" (April Fish!)

In Scotland, April Fool's Day is actually celebrated for two

days. The cond day is devoted to pranks involving the posterior

region of the body. It is called Taily Day. The origin of the "kick

me" sign can be traced to this obrvance.

Mexico and many Spanish-speaking countries have

Innocent's Day, on December 28, to make "innocent" a person

with jokes and hoaxes. The origin for the pranking is derived from

the Catholic feast day Day of the Holy Innocents for the infants

slaughtered by King Herod at the time of Jesus' birth.

The New York April Fools' Day Parade was created in 1986 to

remedy a glaring omission in the long list of New York's annual

ethnic and holiday parades. The events fail to recognize the

importance of April 1st, the day designated to commemorate the

perennial folly of mankind. In an attempt to bridge that gap and

bring people back in touch with their inherent foolishness, the

parade annually crowns a King of Fools from the parading look-

alikes.

Gag gifts 惡作劇的禮物

What kind of pranks do people play on April Fool's Day?

Starving students

A good prank for most university's is to print up a bunch of

fake leaflets advertising a non-existent restaurant that has cheap

eats and offers free food with the coupons printed on the leaflets.

Most colleges have a student union, so the leaflets can be

dropped off there and pinned up on various bulletin boards

around campus.

When this is done, you can sit back and watch the marks

wandering around looking for their free lunches.

Go Fish, Goldfish

When you are at someone's hou and they are having a

party or people over, go to their main bathroom and put about a

dozen goldfish in their toliet. This prank is hilarious becau

people won't know what to do. They either go to the bathroom

and flush the fish or they let them stay in there until someone

scoops them out and they will end up with a dozen goldfish!

Sticky Glue

You'll need a little bit of lightly sticky glue for this one--I

suggest simply using a glue stick and smearing it. Put the glue

on someone's at--imagine the trouble they'll have getting up!

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