Halloween

 Halloween, celebrated each year on October 31, is a mix of ancient Celtic practices, Catholic  and Roman religious rituals and European folk traditions that blended together over time to create the holiday we know today. Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity and life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. Halloween has long been thought of as a day when the dead can return to the earth, and ancient Celts would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off these roaming ghosts. The Celtic holiday of Samhain, the Catholic Hallowmas period of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day and the Roman festival of Feralia all influenced the modern holiday of Halloween. In the 19th century, Halloween began to lose its religious connotation, becoming a more secular community-based children's holiday. Although the superstitions and beliefs surrounding Halloween may have evolved over the years, as the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, people can still look forward to parades, costumes and sweet treats to usher in the winter season.(this information from the internet)

When i am in china ,i can not feel the strong taditional Halloween, also in china we have the same date like that.Some of my friends go to pub to celebrated, from the picture i feel UK people very attention about this special date. Acoording to the information from the internet i know that in the 19th century, Halloween began to lose its religious connotation, becoming a more secular community-based children's holiday.It can help people face on the cold winter, actually it built a strong power in people `s heart which during the Halloween.
On that day i found many people make up made thenselves terriblely, i think it was use for made the ghost far from human.