Day of laughter or Fool's Day is an unofficial national holiday. He appeared about 2 thousand years ago. Even in ancient Rome, celebrated the holiday, which was called the Day of Fools. On this day, the Romans joked and made jokes. Now it is also customary to pin up friends and acquaintances. The most common rally is to approach a person and say that he has a "white back".
Day of laughter in other countries
The fool's day in Spain is celebrated not on April 1, but on December 28. On this day in the city of Ibi for 200 years, there is a festival called El Dia de los Santos Inocentes, which means Day of the Simpletons. During the festival, the town hall is preceded by a battle with eggs, flour and firecrackers. Officially, the Fool's Day in Spain is called the Day of Holy Innocent Babies. It is believed that more than two thousand years ago, Herod, the king of the Jews, learned of the appearance of a pretender to his throne in the person of the son of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. Then Herod ordered to kill all the children under the age of two in Bethlehem. Today in Spain, Fool's Day is dedicated to the memory of the dead Bethlehem children.
The day of laughter in the UK is also associated with a very interesting story. In ancient times in England, there was a custom - the land by which the king passed, automatically became his possessions. Residents of the town called Goufam did not want to belong to the king, pay taxes to him, and come up with something that surprised him. When the king rode into the city, he saw that the people of Goufam behaved very strangely: some grazed cows on the roof, others wore water in a sieve, others planted birds in cages without a roof. Then the king and his entourage thought that the whole population of the city was just crazy, and that they would not have anything to take from them. Now the city of Goufam is also called the city of fools.
In England, it is customary to play each other only until noon, since it is considered to be a joke after 12 hours.
The fool's day in Finland is combined with the Student's Day and is celebrated on May 1. The day of jokes and rallies in Finland is connected with the village custom - to give comic errands to children during large works. They were sent for some non-existent thing to their neighbors, and they suddenly remembered that they had given it to another neighbor, and the child went on.
Celebrating the Day of Laughter
World day of laughter is not a day off, in honor of it do not arrange feasts, but Day of the fool differs the fun and draws. In schools and educational institutions, extra-curricular activities, games of KVN are held by the Day of Laughter. The media in all countries also do not miss the opportunity to play the population. For example, in 1698 an article appeared in one of the British newspapers that on April 1, everyone can see the indicative washing of white lions. Crowds of curious people rushed to see this. In 200 years another British edition again published this comic announcement and it all happened again.
And the April Fools 'Day draws a list of 100 April Fools' Day jokes of all time, including a UFO landing in London, the fall of the Leaning Tower, a change in the number of pi by 3.0, and others.
Here are some drawings that you can please friends or colleagues at work on Fun Day:
- Drawing on the phone. Call a friend and say: "Hello, is this a living place? Do you need a talking horse? Just do not throw the phone, please, it's very difficult to dial the horseshoe number! "
- Drawing with armpits. If someone who wears a white jacket is studying or working with you, you can play a trick on him: bring 2 pieces of black fur from the house and imperceptibly sew it into the armpits from outside the jacket. Well, if the victim of the rally goes with you one route in the subway, and you will witness how everyone in the car bends over laughing.
- Home drawing. Cover a bar of soap with a clear nail polish. No matter how hard you try, it will not be washed.