愚人節(jié)的傳說

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.

人類學家及文化歷史學家們對愚人節(jié)的起源有自己的解釋。他們認為，愚人節(jié)可以追溯到紀念春天的節(jié)日。每到春天，天氣就開始變得變化無常，就好像大自然在對人類搞惡作劇，按照傳統(tǒng)，春天的一些節(jié)日都反映了人們的某種奇想和驚奇之感。同時也涉及到一些社會秩序的暫時顛倒。在廢舊迎新的短暫轉折之計正常的行為不再受到支配，一些玩笑，詭計，以及預期身份的倒置都會得到允許。