万圣节的由来英语版：Halloween
halloween (or hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on october 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.
historian nicholas rogers, exploring the origins of halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the roman feast of pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called parentalia, it is more typically linked to the celtic festival of samhain, whose original spelling was samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)".the name is derived from old irish and means roughly "summer's end".snap-apple night (1832) by daniel maclise.depicts apple bobbing and divination games at a halloween party in blarney, ireland.the name 'halloween' and many of its present-day traditions derive from the old english era.