China? Thanksgiving?
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 fully absorb its positive factors, integrate traditional virtues and give it new meaning, so as to set up a Thanksgiving Day with China characteristics? Thanksgiving? . 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, since ancient times, the Chinese nation has been helpful and grateful. Do you want to enjoy the spring when you are dripping? This used to be a famous saying. 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 others' care for granted. 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 fully absorb its positive factors, integrate traditional virtues and give it new meaning, so as to set up a Thanksgiving Day with China characteristics? Thanksgiving? .
The origin of Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Day is an ancient festival created by the American people, and it is also a festival for Americans to reunite with their families, so Americans always feel very cordial when they mention Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving Day is the most authentic and Americanized of the national holidays in the United States, and it is closely related to the early history of the United States. Early immigrants who originated in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
These immigrants were called Puritans in England. Dissatisfied with the incomplete religious reform of the Church of England and the political repression and religious persecution of the king and the Church of England, these Puritans left the Church of England and went to Holland. Later, they decided to move to a desolate place on the other side of the Atlantic, hoping to live freely according to their own wishes.
65438+September 0962, Mayflower? The ship left England for North America with 102 Puritans and their families. After more than two months of hard sailing, it landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and settled down from then on. In the first winter, more than half of these Puritans died at once because of lack of food, cold weather, epidemic disease and overwork. The following spring, Masasuode, the chief of the local Indian tribe, led the kind Indians, gave grain seeds to the Puritans and taught them to hunt, grow crops and fish. With the help of Indians, the Puritans had a bumper harvest that year. William, the first governor? Bradford suggested setting up a festival to celebrate the harvest and thank God for his gift.
At the same time, I also want to use this festival to strengthen the harmonious relationship between whites and Indians. 1621165438+1On a Thursday in late October, the Puritans brought by Massasod and 90 Indians got together to celebrate the first Thanksgiving in American history. Male Puritans go out hunting and catch turkeys, while women cook delicious food with corn, pumpkin, sweet potato and fruit at home. In this way, whites and Indians ate, chatted, sang and danced around the bonfire, and the whole celebration lasted for three days.
At first, there was no fixed date for Thanksgiving, which was decided temporarily by the states. It was not until 1863 after the independence of the United States that President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Thanksgiving Day symbolizes turkey, corn, pumpkin and cranberry sauce, which are symbols representing the first Thanksgiving Day. These symbols often appear on holiday decorations and greeting cards. Corn, in particular, represents the survival experience of Puritan immigrants in death. Decorations used on dining tables or doors, corn represents harvest and autumn.
Sweet and sour cranberry sauce was the first food on the Thanksgiving table, and it is also on the table today. Cranberry is a small and sour wild berry, which grows in swamps in Massachusetts and New England. Indians use its fruit to treat all kinds of inflammation, and dye red carpets and blankets with juice. They taught Puritans how to cook cranberries and make cranberry sauce with sugar and water. Indians are called cranberries? Ibimi? , that is to say? Bitter berries? . Is that what immigrants call it? Cranberries? Because the cranberry flowers drag the stems down, much like a crane with a slender neck. Cranberries still grow in New England today.
1988, a special Thanksgiving dinner was held at St. John's Cathedral in New York. Among the more than 4,000 guests, there were representatives of Indian tribes from all over the country and descendants of immigrants who later arrived in the United States. In the form of dinner, Americans publicly acknowledged the contribution of Native Americans to the first Thanksgiving in the United States and thanked Indians for sharing their experiences and skills. Without the instruction of Indians, the original Puritan immigrants could not survive in the United States.