1. In the West, people treat Thanksgiving as a holiday for family reunion, and many restaurants are closed on that day, so people will cook their own Thanksgiving dinner at home with their relatives and friends. Children in other cities go back to their parents' cities for the holiday, or their parents come to their children's cities to spend Thanksgiving together.

2. Thanksgiving is a traditional western holiday in the United States and Canada, created by the American people. At the beginning of Thanksgiving Day has no fixed date by the U.S. states to decide temporarily. Until after the independence of the United States in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln announced Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday. 1941, the U.S. Congress officially set the fourth Thursday in November as "Thanksgiving Day".

3. In 1879, the Canadian Parliament declared November 6 to be Thanksgiving Day and a national holiday. In the years that followed, the date of Thanksgiving Day changed many times until January 31, 1957, when the Parliament of Canada declared the second Monday in October to be Thanksgiving Day.