April Fools' Day is celebrated all around the world on the April 1 of every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day where everyone plays all kinds of jokes and foolishness. The day is marked by the commission of good humoured or funny jokes, hoaxes, and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, teachers, neighbors, work associates, etc.
Traditionally, in some countries such as New Zealand, Ireland, the UK, Australia, and South Africa, the jokes only last until noon, and someone who plays a trick after noon is called an "April Fool".
Elsewhere, such as in France, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Russia, The Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Canada, and the U.S., the jokes last all day. The earliest recorded association between April 1 and foolishness can be found in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1392). Many writers suggest that the restoration of the January 1 as New Year's Day in the 16th century was responsible for the creation of the holiday, but this theory does not explain earlier references.
In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1392), the "Nun's Priest's Tale" is set Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two. Modern scholars believe that there is a copying error in the extant manuscripts and that Chaucer actually wrote, Syn March was gon.Thus the passage originally meant 32 days after March, i.e. May 2,the anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England toAnne of Bohemia, which took place in 1381. However, readers apparently misunderstood this line to mean "32nd of March," i.e. 1st April.In Chaucer's tale, the vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox.
In 1509, a French poet referred to a poisson d’avril (April fool, literally "April fish"), a possible reference to the holiday.In 1539, Flemish poet Eduard de Dene wrote of a nobleman who sent his servants on foolish errands on the 1st of April.In 1686, John Aubrey referred to the holiday as "Fooles holy day", the first British reference.On 1st April, 1698, several people were tricked into going to the Tower of London to "see the Lions washed".The name "April Fools" echoes that of the Feast of Fools, a Medieval holiday held on the 28th December.
In the Middle Ages, New Year's Day was celebrated on the 25th of March in most European towns.In some areas of France, New Year's was a week-long holiday ending on the 1st of April.So it is possible that April Fools originated because those who celebrated on the 1st of January made fun of those who celebrated on other dates.The use of the 1st of January as New Year's Day was common in France by the mid-sixteenth century,and this date was adopted officially in 1564 by the Edict of Roussillon.
It's 1st April, and its April Fool...last time when I still in highschool, this day is the day that you will expect nothing. Especially, when you hear what you wanted to hear....beware in this date makes it more fun when people around making you fools in many creative ways....
Its fun when you treat a friend of yours in the way that will touch his/hers soul, but he/she can't blame you bcause its april Fool...but, I think that it won't be necessary for us to treat our friend in such way that we want to do something erotic to fool him/her. So, treat your friend well, makes fools that only for fun...so, friends that have been fooled, be cool and just have fun...(^_^)
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