2013年9月1日星期日

The origin of Halloween pumpkins

                The origin of Halloween pumpkins  

 REVIEW: Pumpkin carving pumpkins is a Halloween tradition, its history can be traced back to Ireland.
  
   Halloween pumpkin is iconic symbol. Pumpkin is orange, orange has become the traditional Halloween colors. Pumpkin carving pumpkins is a Halloween tradition, its history can be traced back to Ireland. Legend has it that a man named Jack who was so stingy, and therefore can not enter heaven after death, but also because he made ​​fun of the devil can not enter hell, so he can only wander lantern until Judgment Day. So Jack and his lantern became a symbol of the cursed souls. People in order to scare these souls away on Halloween, of turnips, beets or potatoes carved into scary faces to represent lantern Jack, this is the pumpkin (Jack-o-lantern) of the origin. Irish people moved to the United States, they start to make pumpkin carving, because in the United States fall when pumpkins more plentiful than turnips. Now, if people on Halloween night pumpkin lights hung on the window to show that those who wear Halloween costumes people can come knocking mischief want candy.

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