Thanksgiving is generally about thanking the people you want to thank, sending them well wishes and saying thank you. Say thank you to friends who have helped you and friends you love for coming into your life. Thanksgiving also involves going for turkey and pumpkin soup.

Thanksgiving Day (Thanksgiving Day), a traditional Western holiday, is a holiday created uniquely by the people of the United States, but also a holiday for Americans to get together as a family. In the beginning, Thanksgiving Day had no fixed date, and was decided temporarily by each state in the United States.

In 1863, after U.S. independence, President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, and in 1941, the U.S. Congress formally designated the fourth Thursday of November as "Thanksgiving Day". The holiday lasts from Thursday to Sunday.

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 changed several times until on January 31, 1957, the Parliament of Canada declared the second Monday in October to be Thanksgiving Day each year.

Thanksgiving Day customs:

1, picnic

Thanksgiving Day in the United States in addition to these activities, some families will drive to the countryside to go on a picnic, or take a plane out of the trip, when the immigrants settled down in Plymouth Harbor is the place where tourists look forward to. Plymouth Harbor, where the settlers made their homes, is a popular destination for tourists. There, you can see a replica of the Mayflower and the Plymouth Rock, and you can visit the village, which is modeled after the one that was built in those days.

2, shopping

November 28, 2013, Thanksgiving Day, the United States of America, New York, people have flocked to the major shopping malls and supermarkets to shop in advance of the beginning of the blood spree, "Black Friday".

3, parade

Began in 1924, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is the largest Thanksgiving Day celebration in the United States, which is held on Thanksgiving Day (the fourth Thursday in November).

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Thanksgiving Day