Why is it called Thanksgiving? Tracing back to the source, Thanksgiving Day is closely related to ancient American Indians, especially the cultivation of corn. 1On September 6th, 620, a group of English Puritans couldn't bear religious persecution and sailed for America on the wooden boat Mayflower. They drifted in the Atlantic for 65 days under the attack of fatigue, hunger, cold and disease, and finally arrived at Plymouth, a North American colony.
It was winter, the climate was cold and the fields were desolate. The local Indians generously took out corn and potatoes stored for the winter and gave them to the hunted wild ducks and turkeys. When spring comes, Indians teach them to grow corn and pumpkins and raise turkeys. White immigrants have established close friendship with Indians. This autumn, there was a bumper harvest of corn, and the immigrants held a rich Thanksgiving party, entertaining Indians with roast turkey and tortillas. Indians brought all kinds of corn products, roast turkey, pumpkin pie, wild grapes and corn syrup, and people sang and danced. After that, every year at the end of 1 1 after corn harvest, white immigrants who settled here will hold a Thanksgiving party, and each family will roast turkey, make corn food and entertain Indians. In the long run, this gratitude will become a routine. However, the time of Thanksgiving was not determined at that time. Until 1863, American President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday and called on people to work together for the prosperity of the United States. To commemorate Thanksgiving, a huge monument to the pioneers of immigration was built on Somerset Street in Plymouth. The ivory ancestor statue is 65,438+00 meters high, covered with shawls and finger domes, and describes the story of the first immigrants to Plymouth and the origin of Thanksgiving on four marble floating women. Today, corn products are still one of the indispensable foods to celebrate Thanksgiving.