? Thanksgiving Day (Thanksgiving Day), a traditional Western holiday, is an original holiday created by the American people, and is also a holiday for Americans to get together as a family. ? Initially, Thanksgiving Day has no fixed date, by the U.S. states temporary decision. Until 1863, after the independence of the United States, President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving as a national holiday. In 1941, the U.S. Congress officially designated the fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day. The Thanksgiving holiday usually lasts from Thursday to Sunday.
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? In 1879 the Parliament of Canada proclaimed November 6 as Thanksgiving Day and a national holiday. In the years that followed, the date of Thanksgiving changed several times until on January 31, 1957, the Parliament of Canada proclaimed the second Monday of October as Thanksgiving Day each year.
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? Origins of Thanksgiving in the United States
? The origins of Thanksgiving can be traced back to the beginnings of American history, originating with the early settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Known as Puritans when they were on English soil, these immigrants were dissatisfied with the incomplete Reformation of the Church of England, as well as the political repression and religious persecution by the King of England and the Church of England, so these Puritans broke away from the Church of England and traveled as far away as Holland, and later decided to relocate across the Atlantic Ocean to that uninhabited land in the hope of being able to be as religious and free as they wished to be.
?In 1620, the famous ship Mayflower arrived in the Americas with 102 Puritans who could not bear the religious persecution in England. That winter, they encountered unimaginable difficulties, in the midst of starvation and cold. At this time, the Indians brought the necessities of life to the immigrants, and also taught them to hunt, fish and plant corn. With the help of the Indians, the immigrants finally got a good harvest, and on the day of celebrating the harvest, according to the religious tradition and custom, the immigrants stipulated the day of thanking God and decided to invite the Indians to celebrate the festival with them in order to thank them for their sincere help.
? On a Thursday in late November 1621, the Pilgrims and 90 Indians brought by Massasoit gathered to celebrate the first Thanksgiving in American history. They fired a cannon salute at dawn, marched into a house used as a church to give thanks to God, and then lit a bonfire and held a great feast, where the Indians were treated to the delicacies of the turkey they had hunted. The next day and the third day were spent wrestling, running, singing, dancing and other activities. The male Puritans went out to hunt and catch turkeys, while the women made delicious meals at home with corn, pumpkins, sweet potatoes and fruit. In this way, white men and Indians gathered around the campfire, ate and talked, and sang and danced, and the whole celebration lasted for three days? . Many of the ways in which the first Thanksgiving was celebrated have been handed down since.
? Origins of Thanksgiving in Canada:
? Thanksgiving does not fall on the same day in Canada and the United States, and the Canadian Parliament made Thanksgiving a statutory holiday slightly later than in the United States. However, the first Canadian Thanksgiving was 40 years earlier than in the United States.?
Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Unlike the American tradition of remembering the Puritan forefathers who settled the New World, Canadians are primarily thankful for the harvest of success given by God. The simple fact that Canadian Thanksgiving precedes that of the United States is that the harvest season is relatively earlier in Canada than in the United States because Canada is closer to the north. Thanksgiving in Canada is usually considered to be influenced by three traditional customs.
One is the influence from European traditions. Since the earliest harvests about 2,000 years ago, people have celebrated good harvests and given thanks for the bounty and good fortune bestowed upon them by rich nature. When Europeans came to Canada, they also brought this tradition with them and influenced what would later become the Canadian Thanksgiving tradition.
The second was the influence of British explorers celebrating survival. Forty years before the Puritans landed in Massachusetts, USA, the first official Thanksgiving was held in Canada. In 1578, an English explorer named Martin Frobisher tried to discover a link to the East, though he was unsuccessful. Instead, he established a settlement in what is now Newfoundland, Canada, and held a feast to celebrate survival and harvest. Other later settlers continued these "thanksgiving" ceremonies. This one is believed to be the first Canadian Thanksgiving.
The third influence came from the United States, where in the fall of 1621, English settlers who had traveled across the ocean to the New World held a three-day carnival to give thanks to God for the bountiful harvest. Since then, this custom has continued and has gradually become popular everywhere. During the American Revolution, a group of American royalists loyal to the British Crown migrated to Canada, and also brought the customs and ways of American Thanksgiving to Canada. 1750 Harvest celebrations were brought to Nova Scotia by settlers from the southern part of the U.S., and at the same time, French settlers arrived and held a "Thanksgiving" feast. Thanksgiving" feasts were held. All of these had a profound effect on Thanksgiving in Canada.
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