Introduction to Mother's Day
Introduction to the origin of Mother's Day in China. Mother is a very brave and great person. I hope everyone can sincerely express their deep love for her on Mother's Day. Then how did Mother's Day in China evolve? What this article brings to you is a brief introduction to the origin of Mother's Day.
Introduction to the Origin of Mother's Day
1. The Origin of Mother's Day in China
Legend has it that a long time ago, the suburb of Xiong Yue was a beach. There is a poor family by the sea, only mother and son, living alone. The mother loves her son very much and hopes that his son will study hard and succeed in his studies in the future. In order to provide for her son's education, she tills the fields during the day, spins and weaves at night, and works hard. This year, the court held a big exam to select talents, and my son decided to go to Beijing to catch the exam. The mother plowed day and knitted night, waiting for her son to return. However, there has been no news of my son. Mother was in a hurry, so she went to the seaside to look out every day. Until the elderly mother turned into a stone statue, she didn't expect her son to return.
The villagers were moved by the great maternal love. They called the unique Xiufeng, which rose from the ground, "Wanger Mountain", and built a Mother's Tower at the top of the mountain and a Mother's Pavilion at the foot of the mountain, so that future generations could remember the ordinary and great kindness of their mothers. Up to now, the people of Bayuquan still retain the ancient style of respecting their mothers. On the "Mother's Day" in May every year, we should carry out various activities to respect mothers. Many people also set up inscriptions for their mothers in the Mother's Hall to show their respect for their mothers.
2. When is Mother's Day
Mother's Day is the second Sunday in May every year.
3. Holiday gifts suitable for Mother's Day
Electric footbath. We can't always stay with her and take care of her health, so send her a healthy gift and let her take care of herself. Relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, strengthening blood circulation, and strengthening the functions of five internal organs, the footbath is mom's intimate little cotton-padded jacket.
hand cream. What woman doesn't love beauty? It's just that after being a mother, I don't have the energy and care. We can send our mother a beauty on this special day, so that beauty will remain in her face forever. However, it is best to focus on other conditions such as the mother's skin. But hand cream is omnipotent, caring for mother's hardworking hands and making her beautiful from little things.
silk scarf. A gift can accompany my mother in spring, autumn and winter, which is warm and intimate. Silk scarves bring a smooth and delicate texture, but also warm greetings, light and elegant posture, highlighting the temperament of women, fresh and elegant with a little elegant and noble romantic atmosphere.
carnations. The legend of pink carnation is that the Virgin Mary shed sad tears when she saw Jesus suffering, and carnations grew where the tears fell, so pink carnations became a symbol of immortal maternal love. On Mother's Day, people often take carnations as gifts for their mothers to express their love and blessings.
major activities
"Chinese mother's day" will be held in Zoucheng, Shijiazhuang, Yantai and other places first, and will be expanded after achieving good results. Education departments in more than 1 cities, including Xinxiang, Henan, Taiyuan, Shanxi, Yinchuan, Ningxia and Liuzhou, Guangxi, began to respond. On the occasion of "Chinese Mother's Day", every student was encouraged to do a good deed or give a homemade gift to his mother and write an essay with the theme of "Chinese Mother's Day".
The China Mother's Day Promotion Association will also select one million students in China and distribute the Action Plan for Caring for Mothers to them free of charge. The ways and methods of caring for mothers are designed for primary school students, middle school students and college students, and the students will choose according to the actual situation. At the same time, there are also plans to hold China sex competitions such as Mom Story Composition Competition.
In view of the increasing popularity of foreign festivals and the cooling of national festivals, China people have taken actions to return to traditional festivals, such as holding China Valentine's Day-Qixi Cultural Festival, and devoting their efforts to tapping the cultural connotation of the Spring Festival. The establishment of Chinese Mother's Day has continued this cultural revival.
May 13th, 27 is the "Mother's Day" in the west. At that time, some China Confucian researchers and teenagers' moral educators were also kicking off the first folk "Chinese Mother's Day", advocating China people to feel their maternal love in their own way.
the third lecture of Si Qi lecture hall on Chinese studies: feelings of home country and family style, and the symposium on documentary "Chinese Mother" was held in Beijing on September 3, 217.
Chongfeng Qi, secretary-general of the lecture hall of Sinology, a leading cadre, and the chief producer of the documentary "Chinese Mother": The Chinese nation has a long and splendid ethical civilization, which attaches great importance to the love between parents and children and the love of humanity, and has nurtured many great and influential images of mothers. Chinese mother is the blood of the nation, and maternal love has the greatest and most selfless love. The Chinese nation has always paid attention to filial piety to its mother in the long cultural river with a long history of 5, years. It is with this filial piety, which focuses on the mother's family, that the people of China and the Chinese nation have deep confidence and pride. The documentary "Chinese Mother" aims to maintain the blood of Chinese culture, cultivate the spirit of the Chinese nation, and embody the great Chinese mother and the traditional filial piety spirit, with the intention of awakening modern people's strong consciousness of respecting and caring for their mothers. The Chinese dream and cultural self-confidence to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation are an important part of governing the country.
Initiative
On December 13th, 27, the inaugural meeting and the first plenary meeting of the Mother's Day Promotion Association were held in Zoucheng, the hometown of Mencius, Shandong Province. At the meeting, the proposal of "Creating Chinese Mother's Day" was issued. The full text is as follows:
Who has no mother in the world? Who in the world is not subject to maternal love? Who in the world doesn't love mother? Motherly love and loving mother are human nature, the starting point and cornerstone of love, and the initial source of building a harmonious society. Designing Chinese Mother's Day well, so that inherit the wind can have a festival that can be highlighted and recognized by heart, and so that children in the world can have a festival that is awakened and exquisitely expressed, should be put on the agenda today when building a harmonious society. This is an excellent platform for inheriting Chinese virtues, strengthening the education of minors, improving the quality of motherhood, promoting family harmony, cultivating the love of the whole society and improving the moral standards of the whole society.
The Chinese nation has a long and splendid ethical civilization, and attaches great importance to the love between parents and children, and has nurtured many great and influential images of mothers. We should have our own Chinese Mother's Day, a Chinese Mother's Day full of the excellent cultural connotation and national spirit of the Chinese nation, rather than a foreign Mother's Day, which is the need of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Looking back at the history of the Chinese nation, the most prominent image of Mencius' mother, Jia Shi, is the virtuous mother of China. After Mencius lost his father at the age of three, she took full responsibility for educating Mencius. The stories of "Meng Mu's Three Movements" and "Teaching Children by Breaking the Machine" have been told for more than 2, years. She has noticed everything from the external environment of children's growth to the internal laws of learning, and finally made her a great tool. She has become a mother model for educating her children, and is known as "the mother teaches one person". So far, Meng Mu can be regarded as the image representative of Chinese Mother's Day to show her great and great maternal love, and inspire mothers from generation to generation.
Having children is the beginning of motherhood. Chinese Mother's Day, with Meng Mu as the banner, was chosen as the day when Meng Mu gave birth to Mencius, because it was on this day that the family became Meng Mu. Nowadays, some children only think about their own happiness on their birthdays, but in traditional virtues, birthdays should be grateful to their mothers, so they are called "Mother's Day" or "Mother's Day". Setting Mencius' birthday as Mother's Day, represented by Meng Mu, means that you should be grateful for your mother's kindness and maternal love when celebrating your birthday.
Zoucheng City, Shandong Province, the hometown of Mencius, has the birthday commemoration of Mencius handed down from generation to generation, and it has the corresponding basis in the Ming Wanli edition "Three Movements" and other documents. Mencius' birthday is the second day of April in the weekly calendar. It is more appropriate to take this day as Chinese Mother's Day. In order to promote the establishment and development of Chinese Mother's Day, our scholars and social workers from all over the country voluntarily formed the "Mother's Day Promotion Association" and carried out their work according to law. We believe that Mother's Day in the United States was started in a place in Philadelphia, and we might as well start it in some places such as Zoucheng, Mencius' hometown. As long as the practice proves that it is conducive to building a harmonious society, it will gradually form a climate and become a big festival, and we will work hard for it wholeheartedly, hoping to get social recognition and support.
Another scholar and ci writer, Xue Gang, wrote "A Mother's Love Fu", suggesting that the birthday of Lei Zu, the Chinese female ancestor, should be designated as Chinese Mother's Day. The reason is: Lei Zu is the wife of Huangdi, the ancestor of Chinese humanities, and she is indeed a female ancestor of humanities recorded in history books, and her cultural foundation is even thicker. The essay is as follows:
Brilliant and unparalleled, and the day lily in Beitang is beautiful; Those who are bitter are bitter, and the wind is green and wild. Harmonious and harmonious, beautiful in the world; Kindness and virtue, the sun and the moon shine again. Gu Shen is immortal, and Kun Yu holds the beginning as the root; Heaven and earth will last forever, and the pro-feelings are Park Yong-fang. Spring is swaying, not slightly reduced by dark clouds; There are many things in the world, so why not care for the madness? Motherly love is the foundation, and the blessing of breeding is great; Childhood is an inspiration, and the benefits of new days are strong.
significance of establishment
maternal love is the greatest and most selfless. Maternal love is a wonderful flower in the emotional world of human beings, and it is sincere, noble and lasting love. It is precisely because of its inheritance that it has the way of "beginning of life, whose nature is good"; Love is the eternal theme of this world. The mother has been working hard for her children all her life, pregnant in October and providing supplies for the fetus; The baby left its infancy sucking its mother's milk; Meticulous care and care in childhood; The training and education in childhood, marriage, family and career problems in adulthood all affect the mother's heart. In ancient Meng Mu, in order to make children have a good learning environment, they worked hard and moved many times. In the 5.12 Wenchuan earthquake, a young mother blocked the collapsed house with her body to save her child, and exchanged her life for her child's second life. She showed the greatness of her mother and the charm of motherhood to the world with her actions.
"filial piety to mother" is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. In the long cultural river with a long history of 5, years in China, filial piety has always been emphasized. In the filial piety picture, the story of Liu Heng, the Emperor of Han Dynasty, who personally tasted the soup and medicine, was recorded. His mother was ill for three years, and he was often out of sight and undressed. He didn't feel relieved to let his mother take the liquid medicine she took until he tasted it himself. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ding Lan, a native of Hanoi, missed his parents' upbringing, so he carved a statue of his parents out of wood. As the vice premier of the country, Chen Yi personally washed diapers for sick mothers; General Feng Yuxiang regards his birthday as "Mother's Day" and commemorates his mother with a one-day hunger strike. Mr. Jiang Jingguo wrote "blood for blood" next to the house where his biological mother was killed by a Japanese plane, and he was determined to avenge his mother. All these reflect China people's love and filial piety for their great mother. There are many works about "filial piety" in Confucian classics: "filial piety is the foundation of virtue, and the reason for teaching is also born." "Therefore, since the son of heaven as for Shu Ren, filial piety has not always been there, and those who suffer from it are not there." In the Analects of Confucius, there is a saying that "a gentleman should be a teacher, and he should be born from the foundation." Filial piety is also the foundation of benevolence! " In "University", "Being a son stops at filial piety; Being a father stops at kindness. " In the Book of Rites, there is a saying that "those who are filial are good at inheriting people's aspirations, and those who are good at telling people's affairs." There is a saying in the article "Advise the newspaper to be kind": "filial piety is the first in the world, and a filial word is safe for the whole family. People must be filial parents, and filial parents are like respecting heaven. " There is a saying in Disciples' Rules: "Be filial first, and believe it next time." "Confucius family language? Disciples' Travel includes: "Filial piety is the beginning of virtue; Hey, the order of virtue is also. "
It is of great significance to set up our own Mother's Day in China:
Follow the example and learn to respect parents and care for mothers. The man of the hour in every era is a model of paying attention to filial piety and respecting mothers. There is a cloud in the Analects of Confucius: "Today's filial piety means that it can be raised. As for dogs and horses, they can all be raised. Disrespect, why not? " This means that parents should not only "nurture" but also "respect", otherwise they are no different from dogs and horses. There is also a cloud in Mencius, "A dutiful son is greater than respecting his relatives." After learning some knowledge, many students' book knowledge has soared, and some often surpass their parents. Therefore, they feel that they have grown up and regard their parents' teachings as "unnecessary", which is easy to argue irrationally, and some even make rude remarks, lacking due respect and courtesy. Infect students with stories of ancient and modern celebrities honoring their parents, so that students can respect their parents and care more about their parents in life.
start from the side and learn to be grateful. The ancients said it well: "The grace of dripping water is rewarded by a spring." Mother gave us life and raised us with great pains. This kindness is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea. We should be grateful for the gift of this life. We should learn to repay our mother and be grateful for this unrepentant effort. How can a person who doesn't even know how to be grateful to his mother expect to be kind to his teachers and friends? How can we expect him to shed his blood for her when the country is in trouble? If everyone is so selfish, where can there be warmth in society? With a grateful heart, start with caring for your parents, and learn to be kind to life, thank your parents and thank the society.
carry forward maternal love and inherit filial piety. Filial piety education is the basic project of socialist spiritual civilization construction, which endows the word "filial piety" with a deeper connotation. It not only requires us to be filial to our parents, but also advocates that we respect the old and love the young, help the weak and help the poor, have a sense of responsibility to the society, know how to repay our parents, teachers, others, society and gratitude, and require us to be loyal to our motherland. Huang Xiang is the father's hotbed, and Lu Ji is pregnant with withered oranges and leaves his relatives behind. These long-standing stories reflect the sincere feelings of the ancient working people in filial piety. However, it is difficult to see the continuation and development of this virtue in some teenagers today. Some students are "little emperors" at home, often contradicting their parents, selfish and willful, unfilial and disrespectful, which affect the sound development of their personality. In contemporary times, maternal love should be widely promoted, so that children can feel the hardship and hardship of their parents, so that inherit the wind can have a festival that can be highlighted and seriously experienced, and the hearts of children all over the world can have a festival that is awakened and exquisitely expressed, so that the Chinese filial piety spirit can be spread forever.
To sum up, in order to maintain the blood of Chinese culture and cultivate the spirit of the Chinese nation, China should set up its own Mother's Day, which embodies the greatness of Chinese mothers and the traditional spirit of filial piety, arouses modern people's awareness of respecting and caring for their mothers more, and enables them to have a grateful heart, know how to repay their parents, teachers, others and society, and be loyal and filial to the motherland. Li Hanqiu and some experts and scholars proposed that the second day of the fourth lunar month, when Mencius was born in Meng Mu, be designated as "Chinese Mother's Day", which could be the first choice. In addition, the "vernal equinox" of the lunar calendar contains the meaning of life recovery and vitality, which is also a good choice and worth recommending. When Mother's Day is scheduled is not the crux of the problem. It can be decided by public voting on the Internet and should conform to public opinion. But it is imperative to set up China's own Mother's Day.
Reasons for its establishment
On July 15th, 26, the second Nuwa Landscape Tourism Festival opened in Guling Mountain, Qixian County, Henan Province. Some scholars suggested that Nu Wa's birthday be designated as "Chinese Mother's Day".
Why do you need Chinese Mother's Day
Mother's Day image representatives of different cultures all have different cultural personalities, which are imbued with the blood of their own national culture and bear the national spirit of their own nation. When Chinese sons and daughters suck the mother's day text