Generally speaking, Thanksgiving Day is165438+1October 23rd-165438+1October 28th every year. The origin of Thanksgiving can be traced back to the beginning of American history. 1620, the famous Mayflower arrived in America with 102 Puritans who could not bear the persecution of English religion. In the winter at the turn of 1620 and 162 1, they encountered unimaginable difficulties and were hungry and cold. After winter passed, only 50 immigrants survived. At this time, the kind Indians brought necessities to the immigrants, and specially sent people to teach them how to hunt, fish and grow corn and pumpkins. With the help of Indians, the immigrants finally got a bumper harvest. On the day of celebrating the harvest, according to religious traditions and customs, immigrants set a day to thank God and decided to invite them to celebrate the festival together to thank the Indians for their sincere help.
On the first Thanksgiving, Indians and immigrants gathered together. They fired a salute at dawn, marched into a room used as a church, expressed their sincere thanks to God, then lit a bonfire and held a grand banquet. On the second and third days, wrestling, running, singing and dancing were held. The first Thanksgiving was a great success. Many of these celebrations have been circulated for more than 300 years and have been preserved to this day.
At first, there was no fixed date for Thanksgiving, which was decided temporarily by the states. It was not until the United States became independent that Thanksgiving Day became a national holiday. 1863, President Lincoln made Thanksgiving a legal holiday. By 194 1 year, the US Congress passed a decree to designate the fourth Thursday of 1 1 month as Thanksgiving Day. On Thanksgiving Day, America is very busy. People go to church to pray for gratitude according to custom, and there are costume parades, theatrical performances or sports competitions everywhere in urban and rural towns. Relatives who have been separated for a year will also come back from all over the world, and the family will be round and round and enjoy the delicious Thanksgiving turkey.
The Origin of Thanksgiving in Canada
Thanksgiving in Canada and the United States is not on the same day. Maybe we know that the Canadian Parliament made Thanksgiving a legal holiday a little later than the United States. But the first Thanksgiving in Canada is 40 years earlier than that in the United States, and Canada celebrates Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October. Unlike the American tradition of commemorating the settlement of Puritan ancestors in the New World, Canadians mainly thank God for giving them a successful harvest. Thanksgiving in Canada is earlier than in America. It is a simple fact that the harvest season in Canada is earlier than that in the United States, because Canada is closer to the north. Thanksgiving in Canada is usually thought to be influenced by three traditional habits.
One is the influence from European tradition. Since the earliest harvest about 2000 years ago, people have celebrated the harvest and thanked nature for its kindness and good luck. When Europeans came to Canada, they also brought this tradition to Canada and influenced the Thanksgiving tradition in Canada.
The second is that British explorers celebrate the influence of survival. Canada held its first official Thanksgiving 40 years before the Puritans arrived in Massachusetts. 1578, an English explorer named Martin Frobisher tried to find a passage connecting the east, but he failed. But he established a settlement in Newfoundland, Canada, and held a banquet to celebrate survival and harvest. Other later settlers continued these "thanksgiving" ceremonies. This time is considered to be the first Thanksgiving in Canada.
The third influence came from later America. 162 1 In the autumn of, British immigrants who came across the ocean to the new American continent held a three-day carnival, thanking God for the bumper harvest. Since then, this custom has continued and gradually became popular in various places. During the American War of Independence, a group of royalists loyal to the British royal family moved to Canada, which also brought the habits and methods of American Thanksgiving to Canada. 1750 Harvest Festival was brought to Nova Scotia by immigrants from the southern United States. At the same time, French immigrants arrived and held a "Thanksgiving" banquet. All these have had a profound impact on Thanksgiving in Canada.
1879 The Canadian Parliament declared165438+10.6 as Thanksgiving Day and a national holiday. In the following years, the date of Thanksgiving was changed many times until June1957 65438+1October 3 1 day, and the Canadian Parliament declared the second Monday of1October as Thanksgiving Day, on which we thanked Almighty God for blessing Canada and giving it a rich harvest.
In the United States, 1863, President Lincoln officially declared Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Usually, American Thanksgiving allusions are inseparable from Puritans and famous leader Bradford, 65,438+002 companions, Mayflower, 90-foot wooden sailboat weighing 65,438+080 tons, Cape Cod Bay, Plymouth Harbor, Indians and Chief Massasod. These are the historical testimony of the first permanent colony in New England.
Thanksgiving in the two countries has many similarities, such as cornucopia and pumpkin pie, which are full of flowers and fruits, symbolizing abundance. The food on the Canadian Thanksgiving dinner table usually changes with the change of region and time, some are venison and waterfowl, some are wild ducks and geese, but at present it is mainly turkey and ham.
"Thanksgiving Day" of Egyptians
The harvest festival in ancient Egypt is to commemorate their crop god Min. Their harvest season is spring, so this festival is held every spring. During the festival, the ancient Egyptians first held a parade and then held a festival banquet. At the same time, music, dance and sports competitions are also their celebration projects.
Ancient Egyptians often pretended to cry and grieve when celebrating the corn harvest, so as to deceive the "soul" they thought existed in corn. They are afraid that harvesting the growing corn will make this spirit angry.
Hebrew Thanksgiving Day
Jews also celebrate the harvest. Their festival is called Shed Festival, which has been held every autumn for more than 3000 years. The festival of tabernacles begins on the fifth day of Tishri (Jewish month) and the fifth day of Yom Kippur (the holiest day of the Jewish year) in the Hebrew calendar.
During the 8-day Tent Festival, Jews built huts with branches to commemorate the altars of their ancestors. These huts are built temporarily, with no branches inserted into the ground and thatched roofs to facilitate light entry. There are fruits and vegetables hanging in the house, including apples, grapes, corn and pomegranate. On the second day of the festival, Jews held their festival banquet in a small house under the stars.
The "Thanksgiving" of the Greeks
The ancient Greeks believed in many gods, and their corn goddess (actually the god of all things) was named Demeter. In memory of this goddess, they hold Moscow Riya Festival every autumn.
On the first day of the festival, married women (who may associate pregnancy with crop growth) build a hut covered with leaves and put a bench made of plants in it. The next day is their fasting day. On the third day, a banquet was held to present corn seeds, cakes, fruits and pigs to the goddess. Some people in China suggest that China should also set up Thanksgiving Day. Although Thanksgiving Day in the West has its religious connotation, it can absorb its positive factors, integrate traditional virtues and give it new meaning, so as to establish a "Thanksgiving Day" with China characteristics. Draw lessons from western festivals and set up China Thanksgiving Day, so that children can learn empathy and understand their parents; Let adults understand each other and have more harmonious interpersonal relationships.
The last Thursday of June 165438+ 10 is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Thanksgiving Day is a holiday created by Americans, and it is also a holiday for American family reunion. On this day, families get together to taste Thanksgiving turkey and pumpkin pie. Some college students proposed to set up their own Thanksgiving Day among college students in China to express their love and gratitude to their friends and teachers on this day, which made him feel very reasonable.
In fact, the Chinese nation has been ready to help others since ancient times and repay kindness with kindness. It was once a famous sentence that "the kindness of being dripped by people is rewarded by a spring." Education in China pays more attention to grades and enrollment rate. In addition, many children are only children, and the love of family members leads children to take care of others naturally. Many students don't know how to thank and appreciate, but only know how to take. Even rebellious and bored with family members who care too much about themselves.
Among adults, there are also cases of ingratitude and forgetfulness, and everything is based only on interests. In a civilized society, we should know how to be grateful and have a grateful heart; This is also an important requirement for building a harmonious society, which can promote harmony and coordination among social members, groups, strata and groups, and promote mutual respect, trust and help among people.
Therefore, many people suggest that Thanksgiving Day be held in China, so that students can learn to put themselves in others' shoes, cherish their friends and understand their parents. Let adults no longer be numb and indifferent, and really care for others. Although Thanksgiving Day in the West has its religious connotation, it can absorb its positive factors, integrate traditional virtues and give it new meaning, so as to establish a "Thanksgiving Day" with China characteristics. The first Thanksgiving menu includes:
Corn bread-corn bread is a favorite food for both British and Indians. English cheese pie-English cheese pie, cheese is very important to the British. Venison-venison, the Indians brought five deer. Ducks and geese-ducks and geese-were caught by the British. Wild turkey.-wild turkey. Garlic and onions.-garlic and onions. Pumpkin pudding-pumpkin pudding Indian pudding-Indian pudding Thanksgiving food
Thanksgiving food is very traditional. Every Thanksgiving, Americans eat fat and tender chicken. Turkey is the traditional main course of Thanksgiving. It used to be a wild bird living in North America, which became delicious poultry after being raised in large quantities, each of which could weigh 40 to 50 kilograms. Some places still have hunting grounds for people to hunt before Thanksgiving. Interested people can go to the hunting ground and spend some money to shoot some wild turkeys themselves and go home. Make the festival more interesting.
There is also a certain emphasis on how to eat turkey. It needs to be roasted whole, the chicken skin is roasted to dark brown, and its stomach is stuffed with a lot of miscellaneous food such as broken bread. After serving, the host cut it with a knife and distributed it to everyone. Then everyone poured marinade and sprinkled with salt, which was very delicious. Besides turkey, Thanksgiving food also includes cranberry jam, sweet potato, corn, pumpkin pie, homemade bread, and various vegetables and fruits. These things are traditional food for Thanksgiving.
The layout of the Thanksgiving table is also very distinctive. Housewives don't put flowers as usual, but fruits and vegetables. There is often a big pumpkin in the middle, and some apples, corn and dried fruits are piled around. Sometimes, people empty apples or pumpkins, put dried fruits with shells in them or light candles. Usually, the hostess can let guests into the living room after dinner, but she won't do so on Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving dinner is sweet. Everyone wants to stay at the table for a while. They are happy to recall the past while eating until the last candle burns out.
China Thanksgiving Turkey
You can cook delicious turkey in your home oven. After thawing, turkeys weighing less than 20 kg will be marinated with soy sauce, salt, sugar and some favorite ingredients at room temperature for one day, and it will take two days if they are placed in the refrigerator; First preheat the oven to 475 degrees Fahrenheit, bake for 30 minutes, then take it out and turn it upside down to make turkey. Pour the oil out of the baking pan and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. At this time, put the half-cooked glutinous rice into the stuffing made of pineapple, ham, shrimp and so on. Put it in the belly of the turkey, adjust the oven temperature to 450 degrees Fahrenheit, spread some honey and gravy on the turkey, put it back in the oven for about 30 minutes, then turn over and spread the juice and bake for about 30 minutes. It is not easy to turn the turkey over, but only in this way will the turkey be heated evenly, and there will be juice in the meat and the faint sweetness of pineapple.
Traditional Thanksgiving turkey
When Americans eat turkey, they usually stew it. Usually, turkeys are stuffed with various spices and mixed foods, then wrapped in barbecue bags and roasted whole.
Thanksgiving food
Thanksgiving food According to the recipe, a 20-pound turkey will be roasted for 4 hours until it is completely cooked. The juice of roast turkey will be used to make thick meat sauce with sweet cranberry jam as the seasoning of turkey.
Traditional Thanksgiving dinner includes roast turkey, and some families use roast goose instead of turkey. Turkey has stuffing. It is made of shredded corn bread, white bread and celery. In addition, there is thick gravy cooked with turkey. There is also a special sauce-CranberrySauce, which is rich in cranberries every September and 10. Other side dishes include baked mashed potatoes, baked mashed sweet potatoes, green beans, and Bessie. Of course, the last dessert is pumpkin pie, walnut pie or apple pie. The first Thanksgiving menu includes:
Corn bread-corn bread is a favorite food for both British and Indians. English cheese pie-English cheese pie, cheese is very important to the British. Venison-venison, the Indians brought five deer. Ducks and geese-ducks and geese-were caught by the British. Wild turkey.-wild turkey. Garlic and onions.-garlic and onions. Pumpkin pudding-pumpkin pudding Indian pudding-Indian pudding Thanksgiving food
Thanksgiving food is very traditional. Every Thanksgiving, Americans eat fat and tender chicken. Turkey is the traditional main course of Thanksgiving. It used to be a wild bird living in North America, which became delicious poultry after being raised in large quantities, each of which could weigh 40 to 50 kilograms. Some places still have hunting grounds for people to hunt before Thanksgiving. Interested people can go to the hunting ground and spend some money to shoot some wild turkeys themselves and go home. Make the festival more interesting.
There is also a certain emphasis on how to eat turkey. It needs to be roasted whole, the chicken skin is roasted to dark brown, and its stomach is stuffed with a lot of miscellaneous food such as broken bread. After serving, the host cut it with a knife and distributed it to everyone. Then everyone poured marinade and sprinkled with salt, which was very delicious. Besides turkey, Thanksgiving food also includes cranberry jam, sweet potato, corn, pumpkin pie, homemade bread, and various vegetables and fruits. These things are traditional food for Thanksgiving.
The layout of the Thanksgiving table is also very distinctive. Housewives don't put flowers as usual, but fruits and vegetables. There is often a big pumpkin in the middle, and some apples, corn and dried fruits are piled around. Sometimes, people empty apples or pumpkins, put dried fruits with shells in them or light candles. Usually, the hostess can let guests into the living room after dinner, but she won't do so on Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving dinner is sweet. Everyone wants to stay at the table for a while. They are happy to recall the past while eating until the last candle burns out.
China Thanksgiving Turkey
You can cook delicious turkey in your home oven. After thawing, turkeys weighing less than 20 kg will be marinated with soy sauce, salt, sugar and some favorite ingredients at room temperature for one day, and it will take two days if they are placed in the refrigerator; First preheat the oven to 475 degrees Fahrenheit, bake for 30 minutes, then take it out and turn it upside down to make turkey. Pour the oil out of the baking pan and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. At this time, put the half-cooked glutinous rice into the stuffing made of pineapple, ham, shrimp and so on. Put it in the belly of the turkey, adjust the oven temperature to 450 degrees Fahrenheit, spread some honey and gravy on the turkey, put it back in the oven for about 30 minutes, then turn over and spread the juice and bake for about 30 minutes. It is not easy to turn the turkey over, but only in this way will the turkey be heated evenly, and there will be juice in the meat and the faint sweetness of pineapple.
Traditional Thanksgiving turkey
When Americans eat turkey, they usually stew it. Usually, turkeys are stuffed with various spices and mixed foods, then wrapped in barbecue bags and roasted whole.
Thanksgiving food
Thanksgiving food According to the recipe, a 20-pound turkey will be roasted for 4 hours until it is completely cooked. The juice of roast turkey will be used to make thick meat sauce with sweet cranberry jam as the seasoning of turkey.
Traditional Thanksgiving dinner includes roast turkey, and some families use roast goose instead of turkey. Turkey has stuffing. It is made of shredded corn bread, white bread and celery. In addition, there is thick gravy cooked with turkey. There is also a special sauce-CranberrySauce, which is rich in cranberries every September and 10. Other side dishes include baked mashed potatoes, baked mashed sweet potatoes, green beans, and Bessie. Of course, the last dessert is pumpkin pie, walnut pie or apple pie. On Thanksgiving Day, America is very busy. According to custom, people go to church to pray for gratitude. Dress parades, theatrical performances and sports competitions are held everywhere in urban and rural towns, and schools and shops are also on holiday as required. Children also imitate the Indians in those days, wearing strange costumes, painting faces or wearing masks to sing and play the trumpet in the street. Families living in other places will also go home for the holidays, and the whole family will sit around and munch on delicious turkeys. d
At the same time, hospitable Americans can't forget to invite friends, bachelors or people far away from home for a holiday on this day. Since18th century, the United States has had the custom of sending a basket of food to poor families. At that time, a group of young women wanted to choose a certain day of the year to do good deeds and thought Thanksgiving was the most suitable day. So as soon as Thanksgiving comes, they put a basket full of food and send it to the poor families. It was widely known, and soon many people followed their example.