有关万圣节活动的英文介绍

　　万圣节有些什么活动呢?不知道的朋友不妨来看看小编整理的一些万圣节的活动介绍，看看有没有你喜欢的吧!

　　Across the UK, people throw parties to celebrate Halloween. The biggest Halloween party has to be in Sheffield at the end of October.

　　A lot of people go there to experience Fright Night. Can you image a party with about 40,000 people?

　　There are activities for people of all ages: fancy dress catwalk, urban dance, a monster in a fountain and a zombie garden, as well as the traditional apple bobbing and a competition for the best pumpkin lantern.

　　This is a fun and competitive game which is very traditional. What you do is to place lots of apples in a large tub or a bowl of water - not too cold or too hot.

　　This is because the participants or competitors have to take a bite from one of the apples without using their hands.

　　Sometimes the participants are blindfolded, just to make it even more challenging and fun.

　　Pumpkins are on salein shops and supermarkets from as early as the beginning of October.

　　By the last week of October you can see pumpkin lanterns everywhere in shop windows and in people's houses.

　　Although British people used to use potatoes and turnips, now they use pumpkins to make Jack-o-lanterns unique to the Halloween season.

　　The name“Jack-o-lantern"comes from an Irish folktale about a man named Stingy Jack who, because of his bad nature, was doomed to roam the earth without a resting place and with only his lit lantern to light the way in the darkness.

　　Children love this game! They dress up and then knock on the doors of people's houses in their neighbourhood asking for a ‘trick or treat’.

　　The neighbour gives them chocolates, sweets or money as a ‘treat’.

　　If there is no treat, the children play a trick on the neighbour, for example, they might throw soap at the window.

　　It only happens once a year so even the stingiest adultsmightgive something to the kids as a treat!

　　纽约市也特别在万圣节晚上举行巡游，让一群吸血鬼，僵尸(zombie)，女巫，科学怪人等齐齐现身，还欢迎市民到场参观，到会者不限年龄、性别，不分阶级、国籍，即使你是胆小鬼，也可加入他们的行列，来个热热闹闹的人鬼嘉年华会。

　　其实这些鬼怪都是人扮的，所以并不可怕，相反有些小鬼脸更非常可爱，令人置身其中，就如参加大型化装舞会一样。

　　在各式各样的装扮角色中，以女巫僵尸一族最多人扮演，而那些专卖万圣节用品的店铺也特别准备这类衣饰出售，以迎合大众所需;与此同时，生产商每年更会把当年大热的人物造型包括面具及衣物推出市场，务求令更多人投入西方传统节日的热潮里，如在电影<哈利波特>的小巫师造型，已是许多孩子必选的扮演角色。

　　格林威治村的万圣节巡游﹝Greenwich Village Halloween Parade﹞始于1973年，由一位面具工匠兼木偶演员Mr Ralph Lee发起，据说最初他带着朋友和孩童一起在邻居处游行，后来渐渐演变成整个村的大型活动，而活动中当然少不了大型木偶表演，同时，巡行的目的更希望每一个人都是参与者而不是旁观者，所以即使人们只是抱着想看热闹的心态，当你踏进村子里，很快便会被邀请参与巡行，成为他们的一份子。

　　纽约市的.万圣节巡游每年都吸引成千上万的纽约人和游客参加，而巡游会在格林威治村﹝Greenwich Village﹞举行，各队伍约在夜晚上七时从第六大道与春天街交界﹝6th Avenue & Spring Street﹞起步，一直游行至第二十三街﹝6th Avenue & 23rdStreet﹞为止，全程大概多个小时。

　　南瓜糕饼无论是来自亚洲，南美，非洲，欧洲，以至中东地区的参观者，都可以把自己装扮成各式各样的人物，亦可带备简单乐器，即时演奏本土的独特音乐，融合无疆界的风土文化。可能我以前从未参加过万圣节的活动，更莫说这么精彩的巡游，所以特别觉得有新鲜感。

　　早于十月中，曼哈顿市已开始“闹鬼”了，在繁忙的街道上，已看见四处悬挂起万圣节的鬼怪装饰，很多百货公司也忙着把应节礼品及衣物堆放在橱窗里，吸引不少途人驻足观看，而超级市场及街市亦摆放大大小小的南瓜售卖，供市民买回家布置家园或制作南瓜灯之用，当然嘛，也有主妇烹煮南瓜作菜肴或糕饼，完全依足节庆传统。