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1、编号：时间：2021年x月x日学海无涯页码：第4页 共4页初中生2021年愚人节英语作文400字500字600字左右英文日记初中生2021年愚人节英语作文400字500字600字左右As it was called years ago, All FoolsDay is observed in many countries around the world. The origin of April Fools Day remains clouded in obscurity. But what is clear is that the tradition of a day devoted to
2、foolery had ancient roots. As we look back in time, many ancient predecessors of April Fools Day are found.AFrench legendaryThe most widespread theory about the origin of April Fools Day links the Gregorian calendar reform.In 1582 France became the first country to switch from the Julian to the Greg
3、orian 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
4、specifically became the date of the modern holiday.Mythological rootsThere have been quite a few attempts to provide mythological explanations for the rise of April Fools Day.One story dates back to Roman mythology, particularly the myth of Ceres (the Goddess of grain and the harvest) and Proserpina
5、. 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 daughters voice, searched in vain for Proserpina. The fruitless search of Ceres
6、for her daughter was commemmorated during the Roman festival of Cerealia and believed by some to have been the mythological antecedent of the fools errands popular on April 1st.British folklore linked April Fools Day to the town of Gotham. According to the legend, it was traditional in the 13th cent
7、ury for any road that the King travelled over to become public property. People in Gotham didnt 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 peoples trick. But when the messenger arrived in Gotham he found the town
8、 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 Fools Day has supposedly commemmorated their trickery.Anth
9、ropological explanationsAnthropologists and cultural historians provide their own explanations for the rise of April Fools 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 pla
10、ying 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 se
11、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 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 dAvril or April Fish. Soon it became customary to fool people on April 1, as a way of celebrating the abundance of foolish fish.第 4 页 共 4 页
