愚人節(jié)的英語作文

愚人節(jié)的英語作文

愚人節(jié)的英語作文三篇

As it was called years ago, All Fools＇Day is obrved 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.

AFrench 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 ri 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

Prorpina. In Roman mythology Pluto, the God of the Dead,

abducted Prorpina and brought her to live with him in the

underworld. Prorpina called out to her mother Ceres for help,

but Ceres, who could only hear the echo of her daughter＇s voice,

arched in vain for Prorpina. The fruitless arch 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 lo their

main road and spread a fal story to stop the King. A mesnger

was nt to Gotham after King John learned the people＇s trick.

But when the mesnger 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

suppodly commemmorated their trickery.

Anthropological explanations

Anthropologists and cultural historians provide their own

explanations for the ri 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 n of whimsy and

surpri. 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

asons 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 en 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.

The 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.