Thanksgiving Day is a unique holiday in the United States and Canada. Its origin more than 300 years ago, a group of more than 65,438+000 Europeans immigrated to the United States, and it was difficult to survive because of hunger and cold. Most of them froze to death and starved to death in the first winter. The remaining 50 people learned to fish, hunt and grow corn and pumpkins with the help of local indigenous Indians. These people held a celebration to thank God and invited Indians to participate in next year's festival harvest. This is the origin of Thanksgiving. Later, President Lincoln of the United States declared the fourth Thursday of June 165438+ 10 as Thanksgiving Day, and there was a new public holiday in the United States.

There is no Thanksgiving in Europe;

Europeans don't have the experience of the American continent, and there is no need to thank the Indians of another continent, so there is no Thanksgiving Day. Because this festival has a deep American history and involves religions at that time. Many people think that Thanksgiving Day is a popular holiday in Europe and America, but this is wrong.

Generally speaking, it is impolite to congratulate Europeans on "Happy Thanksgiving" on Thanksgiving Day, which is easy to attract resentment. There is no habit of Thanksgiving in Hong Kong, Macao and Special Administrative Region of China, and Thanksgiving greetings may also bring confusion and disgust.

Thanksgiving in China;

Some people in China suggested setting up another Thanksgiving Day in China. Although Thanksgiving Day in the West has its religious connotation, it can absorb its positive factors, integrate traditional virtues and give it new meaning, choose a new anniversary and set up a "Thanksgiving Day" with China characteristics. Draw lessons from American festivals and set up China's own 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 friends and teachers on this day, and to connect with the surrounding reality. He felt it was 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 setting up their own Thanksgiving Day 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.

Custom:

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.

On Thanksgiving Day, the whole country in America is very lively. Christians go to church to pray for gratitude according to custom, and there are costume parades, theatrical performances or sports competitions everywhere in the town. Relatives who have been separated for a year will also come back from all over the world, get together as a family, and taste Thanksgiving food with "turkey" as the main food.

The most famous celebration in the United States is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which started at 1924.

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 New Year. The whole family will sit around and munch on the delicious turkey and say "thank you!" " After Thanksgiving, the school will ask students to draw a picture of Thanksgiving. Most students draw turkeys.

At the same time, hospitable Americans will never forget to invite friends, bachelors or people far away from home to spend the holidays 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. No matter who you meet, you will say, "Thank you!"

Thanksgiving shopping and Black Friday:

Thanksgiving shopping has become an American custom. From Thanksgiving to Christmas, the total retail sales in the United States can account for 1/3 of the whole year, which is the traditional discount promotion season for various businesses. Shopping spree month begins on Friday after Thanksgiving, which is called Black Friday. It is said that it is called this name because in the early hours of Friday, everyone has to rush to the mall to buy cheap goods in the dark. This behavior has a very vivid saying, called the early bird [2]. Thanksgiving in foreign countries is as important as Spring Festival in China!

President's annual ceremony of releasing turkeys began during Truman's administration 1947, but in fact this traditional ceremony can be traced back to President Lincoln's administration during the American Civil War. /kloc-one day in 0/863, Lincoln's son Ted suddenly broke into the cabinet meeting and demanded pardon for a pet turkey named Jack, because the turkey sent to the White House was about to become a Thanksgiving dinner.

Bush pardons "Bird" Turkey [1] On October 22nd, 2006/kloc-0, Bush pardoned a turkey named "Bird" at the Thanksgiving release ceremony held in the White House Rose Garden.

Obama pardons turkey "courage" US President Barack Obama pardons Thanksgiving turkey on the 25th and names it "courage". This is also the first time since he took office that he pardoned Turkey Obama and thanked the brave soldiers who protected the safety of the American people.

The fourth Thursday in June is Thanksgiving Day in America. Accompanied by daughters Sasha and Malia, Obama pardoned the turkey, which was supposed to be a Chinese dish. Obama said, I want to eat this turkey. Thanks to Sasha and Maria's intervention, I forgave my courage. This turkey will be sent to Disneyland. To prevent accidents, the authorities also prepared a spare turkey named Carolina.

[Edit this paragraph] Thanksgiving food

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 salad-salad. Thanksgiving food

Thanksgiving food is very traditional. Every Thanksgiving, Americans eat a fat turkey. 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.

According to the recipe, a turkey weighing about 20 kg should be roasted for 4 hours until it is completely cooked. 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. The juice of roast turkey will be used to make thick meat sauce with sweet cranberry jam as the seasoning of turkey.

There is also a certain emphasis on how to eat turkey. 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, there are cranberry jam, sweet potato, corn, pumpkin pie, bread baked in salad and various fruits and vegetables. 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 invite guests to the living room after dinner, but she doesn't do this on Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving dinner is sweet. Everyone is willing to stay at the table for a while. They happily recalled the past while eating, and they didn't leave the lovely table until the last candle burned 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 evenly heated, crispy outside and tender inside, with juice in the meat and a faint sweetness of pineapple.

Traditional Thanksgiving turkey

When Americans eat turkey, they usually stew it. Usually, turkeys are stuffed with various seasonings and mixed foods, then wrapped in barbecue bags and roasted whole.

Thanksgiving food 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 offal. 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.

[Edit this paragraph] Thanksgiving Game

After Thanksgiving dinner, some families often play some traditional games. On the first Thanksgiving, people had many recreational activities, such as dancing and competitions, some of which have been passed down to this day. There is a game called Cranberry Contest, in which a large bowl filled with cranberries is placed on the ground, and 4- 10 contestants sit together and each person gives out a needle and thread. At the beginning of the game, they threaded the needle first, then strung the cranberries one by one, and it took 3 minutes to arrive; Whoever pulls the longest rope will win the prize. As for the person who strings the slowest, everyone jokingly gives him a worst prize.

There is also an old corn game. It is said that this is handed down to commemorate the issue of five corn to each immigrant in the case of food shortage. During the game. People hid five corn in the house, and everyone looked for it separately. Five people who found corn took part in the competition, while others watched. At the beginning of the competition, five people quickly peeled corn kernels in a bowl, and whoever peeled them first won the prize. Then people who didn't take part in the competition guessed around the bowl how many corn kernels there were, and the prize with the closest number was a big bag of popcorn.

People's favorite game is pumpkin race. Participants push pumpkins with small spoons. The rule is never to touch the pumpkin with your hands. The first person to reach the finish line wins the prize. The smaller the spoon used in the game, the more interesting the game is.

In addition to these activities, some families drive to the countryside for an outing or travel by plane during the festival, especially Plymouth Port, where immigrants settled in the past, is a place that tourists yearn for. There, you can see ships and Plymouth stones copied from may flower, and you can spend hours visiting immigrant villages. The immigrant village was built in imitation of that year. During the visit, there are also special personnel dressed as Christians to chat with tourists, giving people an immersive feeling.