Take Away English-April Fool's Day
1st April is a day to be careful, or you could easily get tricked by someone. It’s April Fool’s Day, a day when people traditionally like to try to make a fool of someone el and laugh at them.
There are lots of theories surrounding the origins of the day, but one explanation is connected with the change in the calendar in the 16th century, which meant that 1st April was no longer the beginning of the year. Tho who still celebrated the New Year on 1st April were called fools.
So what kind of pranks do people play on April Fool’s Day? Well, there are lots of simple tricks that you can play on your friends. For example, you could wear a black sweater and pull a piece of white thread through it, so that people try to pull it off. You could change the time on someone’s alarm clock so that they’re late for work. Or glue a coin to the floor and e how many people try to pick it up.
All the are small-scale practical jokesejb which you might play on one other person or a few people. But there’s also a tradition of large companies attempting to fool a lot of people. For example a burger restaurant once claimed that they were introducing a pretend是什么意思>柔和的意思left-handed burger!
In particular, the media often try to make people believe something which is not true. Newspapers publish some ludicrous stories every year, although some of them are actually true. It’s entertaining to try to guess which stories are true and which are fake. In the April Fool’s stories, they often include a clue to the fact that it’s a joke. For example the name of an ‘expert’ quoted in the article might be an anagram of ‘April Fool’.
Radio and television programmes have also fooled many people by broadcasting reports which are untrue. One programme announced the invention of an amazing new weight-loss product - water which contained minus calories!
And one of the most famous hoaxes ever was broadcast by the BBC itlf in 1957! A very rious news programme called Panorama reported on the poor spaghetti harvest i
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As it was called years ago, All Fools' Day isobrved李宇春全球最佳艺人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 theGregoriancalendarreform.
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 ofCeres(the Goddess of grain and the harvest) andProrpina. In Roman mythologyPluto, 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 ofCerealiaand believed by some to have been the mythological antecedent of thefool'rrandspopular on April 1st.
British folklore linked April Fool's Day to the town ofGotham. 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 oflunaticswho were engaged in foolish activities such as drowning fish or attempting to cage birds in roofless fences. The Kingfellforthe hoax and declared the towntoo foolish to warrant punishment. And ever since then, April Fool's Day has suppodly commemmorated their trickery.歌舞青春男女主角
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 becomesfickle, 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 th
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