Thanksgiving activities include eating turkey and delivering food.

1. Eat turkey

Thanksgiving food is very traditional. Every Thanksgiving, Americans and Canadians must have fat and tender turkeys to eat. Turkey is the traditional main course of Thanksgiving. After European immigrants to America, they thought that the appearance of turkeys was very similar to Turkey's "black-headed and red" clothing features, so they were called "turkey".

2. Giving food

Since the 18th century, there has been a custom of giving a basket of food to poor families in the United States. At that time, a group of young women wanted to choose one day of the year to do good deeds, and thought that Thanksgiving was the most appropriate day. So as soon as Thanksgiving comes, they put a basket full of food and deliver it to the poor people's homes. It was rumored far and near, and soon many people followed their example.

The origin of Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day is a traditional western festival, a festival originally created by the American people, and also a festival for American families to get together. In 1941, the US Congress officially designated the fourth Thursday of November as "Thanksgiving Day". The origin of Thanksgiving goes back to the beginning of American history, and it originated from the early immigrants in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

These immigrants from Plymouth, Massachusetts, were called Puritans in Britain at that time, because they were dissatisfied with the incomplete reform of the Church of England and the political repression by the Church of England and the king. These Puritans left the Church of England and went to Holland, and later decided to move to the other side of the Atlantic, hoping to live freely as they wished.

On Thursday in late November, 1621, the Puritans and 9 Indians brought by Massasod got together to celebrate the first Thanksgiving in American history. Many ways of celebration have been created and passed down to this day.