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April Fools' Day (sometimes called April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day) is celebrated every year on 1 April by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. The jokes and their victims are called April fools. People playing April Fool joke expose their prank shouting April Fool. Some newspapers, magazines, and other published media report fake stories, which are usually explained the next day or below the news section in small letters. Although popular since the 19th century, the day is not a public holiday in any country. Geoffrey Chaucer's ''The Canterbury Tales'' (1392) contains the first recorded association between 1 April and foolishness. == Origins == The custom of setting aside a day for the playing of harmless pranks upon one's neighbor is recognized everywhere. Some precursors of April Fools' Day include the Roman festival of Hilaria,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=April Fools' Day )〕 the Holi festival of India, and the Medieval Feast of Fools. In Chaucer's ''Canterbury Tales'' (1392), the "Nun's Priest's Tale" is set ''Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two''.〔''The Canterbury Tales'', "The Nun's Priest's Tale" - "(Chaucer in the Twenty-First Century )", ''University of Maine at Machias'', 21 September 2007〕 Modern scholars believe that there is a copying error in the extant manuscripts and that Chaucer actually wrote, ''Syn March was gon''.〔Carol Poster, Richard J. Utz, ''(Disputatio: an international transdisciplinary journal of the late middle ages )'', Volume 2, pp. 16-17 (1997).〕 Thus the passage originally meant 32 days after March, i.e. 2 May,〔Boese, Alex (2008) "(April Fools Day – Origin )" ''Museum of Hoaxes''〕 the anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia, which took place in 1381. Readers apparently misunderstood this line to mean "32 March", i.e. 1 April.〔Compare to Valentine's Day, a holiday that originated with a similar misunderstanding of Chaucer.〕 In Chaucer's tale, the vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox. In 1508, French poet Eloy d'Amerval referred to a ''poisson d’avril'' (April fool, literally "April fish"), a possible reference to the holiday.〔Eloy d'Amerval, ''(Le Livre de la Deablerie )'', Librairie Droz, p. 70. (1991). "De maint homme et de mainte fame, poisson d'Apvril vien tost a moy."〕 In 1539, Flemish poet Eduard de Dene wrote of a nobleman who sent his servants on foolish errands on 1 April.〔 In 1686, John Aubrey referred to the holiday as "Fooles holy day", the first British reference.〔 On 1 April 1698, several people were tricked into going to the Tower of London to "see the Lions washed".〔 In the Middle Ages, New Year's Day was celebrated on 25 March in most European towns.〔Groves, Marsha, ''Manners and Customs in the Middle Ages'', p. 27, 2005.〕 In some areas of France, New Year's was a week-long holiday ending on 1 April.〔〔 Some writers suggest that April Fools' originated because those who celebrated on 1 January made fun of those who celebrated on other dates.〔 The use of 1 January as New Year's Day was common in France by the mid-16th century,〔 and this date was adopted officially in 1564 by the Edict of Roussillon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「April Fools' Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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