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Holidays are celebrated for all sorts of reasons. Some honor heroes, others commemorate religious events, but April 1st stands o
Holidays are celebrated for all sorts of reasons. Some honor heroes, others commemorate religious events, but April 1st stands o
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2010-10-14
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Holidays are celebrated for all sorts of reasons. Some honor heroes, others commemorate religious events, but April 1st stands out as the only holiday that celebrates foolishness.
There’s some uncertainty about when and where this bizarre tradition began, but the most accepted explanation traces April Fool’s Day back to 16th century France. Up until 1564, the accepted calendar was the Julian calendar, which observed the beginning of the New Year around April. King Charles IX then declared that France would begin using the Gregorian calendar, which shifted New Year’s Day to January 1st.
Not everyone accepted this shifting of dates at the same time. Some believed that the dates should not be shifted, and it was these people who became the butt of some April jokes and were mocked as fools. People sent gifts and invited them to bogus(假的)parties. Citizens in the rural parts of France were also victims of these jokes. In those days, news traveled slowly and they might not have known about the shifting of dates for months or years. These people also endured being made fun of for celebrating the new year on the wrong day.
Today in France, people who are fooled on April 1st are called Poisson d’Avril, which literally means the "April Fish." One common joke is to hook a cardboard fish to the back of a person. What a fish has to do with April Fool’s Day is not clear. Some believe that the fish is tied to Jesus Christ, who was often represented as a fish in early Christian times.
It’s probably no coincidence that April Fool’s Day is celebrated at the same time that two other similar holidays are celebrated. In ancient Rome, the festival of Hilaria was thrown to celebrate the resurrection(复活)of the god Attis. Hilaria is probably the base word for hilarity and hilarious, which mean great merriment. Today, Hilaria is also known as Roman Laughing Day. In India, the Holi festival celebrates the arrival of spring. As a part of that festival, people play jokes and smear colors on each other.
There’s no clear connection between the modern observance of April Fool’s Day and these two ancient celebrations, which lends most historians to accept the French explanation for how April Fool’s Day developed.
April 1st stands out among all holidays because it is the only holiday to celebrate____________.
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答案
foolishness.
解析
原文重现。第1段的最后部分告诉我们,愚人节与其它所有节日的不同之处在于它是庆祝“愚人”的。
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