Dia da Mentira

April Fool's Day


Ha varias teorias para o surgimento dessa data, o dia da mentira, celebrado no dia 1 de abril. Uma delas e a mais disseminada eh a de que, de acordo com o site www.brasilescola.com.br, apos a implantacao do calendario gregoriano na Franca, o dia 1 de janeiro foi instituido para ser o primeiro dia do ano. Antes dessa mudanca, a festa de ano novo era comemorada no dia 25 de marco e terminava apos uma semana, ou seja, no dia 1 de abril. Algumas pessoas, as mais tradicionais e menos flexiveis, nao gostaram da ideia, sem contar que naquela epoca as noticias demoravam muito para chegar as pessoas, fato esse que atrapalhou a adocao da mudanca por todos. Isso virou motivou de gozacao por parte dos que concordaram com a nova data e passaram a fazer brincadeiras com os teimosos, como enviar convites para festas que nao existiam. Tais brincadeiras causaram duvidas sobre a veracidade da data, confundindo as pessoas. Dai, o surgimento do dia da mentira!

Papa Gregorio XIII. Pope Gregory XIII

There are many theories put forward about how the tradition began, the April Fool's Day, "celebrated" on April 1. The most disseminated theory says that, according to www.museumofhoaxes.com, after France implemented the Gregorian calendar, January 1 was considered the first day of the year. Before the change, the new year was celebrated on March 25 and it would only end after one week, in other words, April 1. Some traditional and less flexible people didn't like it, not to mention that back in the days news took a long time to spread out. Those who failed to keep up with the change had jokes played on them, like being invited to celebration parties that didn't exist. Pranksters would stick paper fish to their backs and the victims were called Poisson d'Avril, or April Fish - which, to this day, remains the French term for April Fool's Day. And that's how the tradition was born!