愚人节由来
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篇一：愚人节的来历英语版 愚人节的来历
[ 2007-03-31 17:46 ] 马上就要愚人节了。关于这个节日的来源有各种不同的说法，有人说与一群不愿接受公历纪年的法国保守者有关；也有人说它来源于纪念丰收女神的女儿被诱拐到地狱；还有人说，这个节日始于英国一个名叫“愚人村”的天才村民；另一些说法则认为春天的天气变化无常，因此人们在春分前后可以选择某一日颠倒乾坤，以荒诞的闹剧来迎接春神的到来……
以下关于“愚人节”的五种传说，其趣味各有千秋，至于哪种更为真实全凭您的亮眼一辨真伪喽！
As it was called years ago, All Fools' Day is observed in many countries around the world. The origin of April Fool's Day remains clouded in obscurity. But what is clear is that the tradition of a day devoted to foolery had ancient roots. As we look back in time, many ancient predecessors of April Fool's Day are found. A
French legendary The most widespread theory about the origin of April Fool's Day links the
Gregorian calendar reform.
In 1582 France became the first country to switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. This meant that the beginning of the year was moved from the end of March to January 1. If someone failed to keep up with the change and continued to celebrate the New Year between March 25th and April 1st, various jokes would be played on him. This story might explain why April 1st specifically became the date of the modern holiday.
Mythological roots There have been quite a few attempts to provide mythological explanations for the
rise of April Fool's Day.
One story dates back to Roman mythology, particularly the myth of Ceres (the Goddess of grain and the harvest and Proserpina. In Roman mythology Pluto, the God of the Dead, abducted Proserpina and brought her to live with him in the underworld. Proserpina called out to her mother Ceres for help, but Ceres, who could only hear the echo of her daughter's voice, searched in vain for Proserpina. The fruitless search of Ceres for her daughter was commemmorated during the Roman festival of Cerealia and believed by some to have been the mythological antecedent of the fool's errands
popular on April 1st. British folklore linked April Fool's Day to the town of Gotham. According to the legend, it was traditional in the 13th century for any road that the King travelled
over to become public property. People in Gotham
didn't want to lose their main road and spread a false
story to stop the King. A messenger was sent to Gotham after King John learned the people's trick. But when the messenger arrived in Gotham he found the town was full of lunatics who were engaged in foolish activities such as drowning fish or attempting to cage
birds in roofless fences. The King fell for the hoax and declared the town too foolish to warrant punishment. And ever since then, April Fool's Day has supposedly commemmorated their trickery.
Anthropological explanations Anthropologists and cultural historians provide their own explanations for the rise of April Fool's Day. According to them, the celebration traces its roots back to festivals marking the Springtime. Spring is the time of year when the weather becomes fickle, as if Nature is playing tricks on man, and festivals occurring during the Spring traditionally mirrored this sense of whimsy and surprise. They often involved temporary inversions of the social order. Normal behavior no longer governed during the brief moment of transition as the old world died and the new cycle of seasons was born. Practical jokes,trickery, and the turning upside down of status expectations were all allowed. In addition,the linkage between April Foolery and the Springtime is seen in another story that traces the origin of the custom back to the abundance of fish to be found in French streams during early April when the young fish had just hatched. These young fish were easy to fool with a hook and lure. Therefore, the French called them 'Poisson d'Avril' or 'April Fish.' Soon it became customary to fool people on April 1, as a way of celebrating the abundance of foolish fish. (英语点津陈蓓编辑 篇二：“愚人节”的来历与习俗 “愚人节”的来历与习俗 潍坊师范学校 鞠贵芹
每年4月1日，是西方也是美国的民间传统节日——愚人节。这一天人们可以开各种各样的玩笑，可以撒善意的谎，“骗”与“被骗者”最后都以哈哈一笑了之。
关于愚人节的来历有不同的说法。一种说法认为，在中世纪时，多数基督教国家都根据儒略历，把4月1日定为新年节日来庆祝，这一天，人们要互赠礼物致贺。十六世纪末到十七世纪初，法国率先改革纪年法，首先采用格里历，即目前通用的阳历，把1月1日作为一年之始。但一些保守的人士旧俗难改，反对这种改革，依然按照旧历固执地在4 