It is said that women are weak, but mothers are strong. Mother's Day is coming, in wishing mom a happy holiday time also need to understand the knowledge of Mother's Day oh! The following is organized by me for you "Mother's Day origin and significance of a simple point", just for reference, welcome to read.
The origin of Mother's Day
Mother's Day originated in Greece, the ancient Greeks in this day to the Greek mythology of the mother of the gods Hera. The meaning is: to remember our mother and her greatness, and to pass on Chinese virtues.
In the mid-17th century, Mother's Day spread to the United Kingdom, where the British took the fourth Sunday of Lent as Mother's Day. On this day, young people who were away from home would return home and bring some small gifts to their mothers.
Modern Mother's Day originated in the United States, initiated by Amanm, Jarvis (1864-1948), who remained unmarried and by her mother's side throughout her life, and was devastated by her mother's death in the 1905 century. Amanm believed that children often neglected their mothers, and she hoped that Mother's Day would make people think more about what mothers did for their families.
The first Mother's Day was celebrated on May 10, 1908, in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, where the carnation was chosen as the flower for mothers, and it has remained so ever since.
In 1913, the U.S. Congress passed a bill making the second Sunday in May the official Mother's Day. Mother's Day has been celebrated ever since.
Mother's Day, which honors mothers and promotes motherhood, has become an agreed-upon holiday in China, and by now, Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, has become a public holiday. With Mother's Day becoming a public holiday, people can finally express their deep feelings for their mothers on this day.
Legendary Stories
Mother and Child On the plains of southern Liaoning, there is an ancient city of more than 2,000 years - Xiongyue City in Mackerel. In the fruit forest that is as green as the sea east of Xiong Yue City, there is a mountain with a solitary peak. At the top of the mountain there is a green brick tower, from a distance, like a mother, looking into the distance, looking forward to the child's early return, this mountain is called the lookout child mountain.
Legend has it that a long time ago, the outskirts of Xiongyue City is a beach. There was a poor family on the beach, only a mother and son, dependent on each other. The mother worked hard to pay for her son's education, and the son was determined to repay his mother's kindness by studying hard and becoming successful. Then the son took a sea boat to the capital to take the examination. Many years passed, but there was no news of her son. The mother was so anxious that she went to the sea every day to watch the sea. One year, two years, three years ...... the mother's hair is white, but no sign of her son. The mother called out to the sea again and again: "child ah, come back! Mother want you, want you ah ......" aged mother fell down, turned into a stone statue, but also did not look forward to the return of his son.
In fact, his son as early as on the way to Beijing to catch the examination, unfortunately overturned the boat fell into the sea and died. Heaven was touched by the great love of mother, in the mother stood looking forward to the child's place, Woody stood up a high mountain; the earth was touched by the great love of mother, so that the mother spilled teardrops, into a stream of underground hot springs, nourishing the countless red apples; townspeople were touched by the great love of mother, that rose up to Duxiu Peak is called "Wanger mountain", at the top of the mountain built a new mountain.
With the development, the people of Mackerel still retain the ancient style of honoring and loving their mothers. In May every year, "Mother's Day" day, are to carry out a variety of activities to honor the mother and love mother. Many people also in the mother museum for their mothers to set up a monument, to express the reverence for their mothers.
Significance of Mother's Day
Festivals are the crystallization and carrier of national culture. A large part of cultural memory is the memory of the festival. After many years, many past events are forgotten, but the scene of the festival is vivid. At the same time, festivals are characterized by wide coverage, constant repetition, edutainment and fun, and have a profound impact on people, so major human holidays are crucial to the cultivation of national spirit and cohesion. The real Mother's Day should be rooted in the heart to realize the love of mother. On the one hand, our Chinese Mother's Day advocates motherly love and motherly education; on the other hand, it advocates motherly love and filial piety. On the other hand, parents give life to their children and have an instinctive selfless love for them. The establishment of the Chinese Mother's Day is to let the world's parents have a love to show, let people seriously recognize the holiday; let the world's children have a filial piety awakened, and exquisite expression of the holiday.
China's traditional festivals are generally comprehensive, lack of a single prominent human theme festivals, such as Mother's Day, Valentine's Day and so on. And modern society has the need to express human feelings. Chinese traditional culture step by step towards self-awareness, self-confidence and self-improvement, but the road is still very far, need more insightful people *** with the promotion, and constantly strive.
Mother of the Chinese nation has a long and brilliant ethical civilization, is very important to the love of parents and children and love of the nation, gave birth to many great and very influential image of the mother. We should have our own Chinese Mother's Day, a Chinese Mother's Day overflowing with excellent cultural connotations and national spirit of the Chinese nation, rather than foreign Mother's Day, which is the need for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Looking back at the history of the Chinese nation, Mencius' mother, the Equuschick, is the most prominent image of the Chinese mother, after Mencius lost his father when he was three years old, she took on the full responsibility of raising him. The stories of "The Three Moves of Mencius' Mother" and "The Broken Machine Teaching Mencius" have been told for more than 2,000 years. From the external environment of the child's growth to the internal rules of learning, she has paid attention to all of them, and finally made the child become a great man, and she herself has become a mother's model for educating her children. She herself became a model of a mother who educated her children, and was known as the "Mother Teacher of One", which is still passed down as an example in modern times. Mencius' mother can be used as an image representative of Chinese Mother's Day to highlight the greatness of mothers and great motherly love, to motivate mothers from generation to generation, and to inspire love and filial piety as a son of a human being.
The birth of a child is the beginning of motherhood, the Chinese Mother's Day under the banner of Meng mother selected on the day of Meng mother gave birth to Mengzi, because this day the Equuschick only became the mother of Meng. Nowadays, some children only think of their own happiness on their birthdays, but in the traditional virtues, they should be grateful to their mothers for their birthdays, so they call their birthdays "Mother's Difficulty Day" or "Mother's Difficulty". Mengzi's birthday as a mother's day to Meng mother as the image of the representative of the Mother's Day, means that in celebrating their birthday should be grateful to the mother's grace, thank you for the mother's love.