愚人節(jié)的傳說(shuō)

       British legendary 英國(guó)傳說(shuō)

An English story about the day,however,holds that it began sometime during the 1200s.At the time,King John of England was in the habit of making a road out of nearly every path he walked regularly.The citizens of one particular farm village were aware of this.To avoid having their green meadows and pastures disturbed with one of the king' s roads,they built a fence that prevented the king from walking through their countryside.The king sent a group of messengers4) to inform the villagers that they must remove the barrier.Upon hearing that the king was planning to do this,however,the villagers developed a plan of their own.When the messengers arrived,they found what app eared to be a community of lunatics5),with people behaving in a bizarre6) manner,throwing things and running around wildly.The messengers,alarmed at what they had found,reported to King John that these people were so mad as to be beyond punishment.So,the villagers saved their farmland by tricking the King.In Great Britain,tradition only allow s April Fool's tricks from midnight to noon on April 1.Those who try to play tricks in the afternoon become the fools themselves.

關(guān)于這一天，英國(guó)的一個(gè)故事則說(shuō)它是始于13世紀(jì)的某一天。那時(shí)，英格蘭的約翰國(guó)王習(xí)慣于將他經(jīng)常走的幾乎每一條小道都修成一條路。有一個(gè)鄉(xiāng)村的居民知道了這個(gè)情況。為了保護(hù)他們綠色的草地和牧場(chǎng)免受國(guó)王修路所將造成的破壞，他們修了一道籬笆來(lái)阻擋國(guó)王在他們的鄉(xiāng)間穿行。國(guó)王派了一隊(duì)使者去通報(bào)村民們必須拆除障礙。在聽(tīng)到國(guó)王打算這么做時(shí)，村民們也想出了自己的辦法。當(dāng)使者到達(dá)時(shí)，他們看到這兒的人像一群瘋子似的，樣子怪誕，亂扔?xùn)|西，四下瘋跑。使者們驚訝于他們所看到的情景，向約翰國(guó)王報(bào)告說(shuō)，這些人瘋得厲害根本沒(méi)法處罰。村民們就這樣騙過(guò)了國(guó)王，保護(hù)了自己的農(nóng)田。在英國(guó)，按習(xí)俗在4月1日只允許從半夜到中午的這段時(shí)間可以搞愚人的惡作劇，到下午還這么做的人自己就成了愚人了。