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 arevery happy.

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.

historythe word halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a scottish variant of the fuller all-hallows-even ("evening"), that is, the night before all hallows day.[4] although the phrase all hallows is found in old english (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), all-hallows-even is itself not attested until 1556.

11月1日 -- 万圣节 all saints' day

万圣节（all saints' day, all hallow's day或hallowmas） 是每年11月1日 的欧美大节日。

halloween 是 all hallows eve 的缩写，万圣节前夜的意思，指10月31日的晚上。

for thousands of years people have been celebrating different holidays and festivals at the end of october. the celts celebrated it as samhain （pronounced “sow-in”, with “sow” rhyming with cow）。 the irish english dictionary published by the irish texts society defines the word as follows: