Introduction: In the United States, like the Chinese New Year, on Thanksgiving Day, thousands of people, no matter how busy they are, reunite with their families and everyone enjoys a nice holiday dinner together. strong> Thanksgiving Day English Handbook Content:

Thanksgiving Day Customs: Regional Differences

Americans: Reunions, Carnivals, Shopping, and Eating

In the U.S., like the Chinese New Year, Thanksgiving Day is a day of celebration. Chinese New Year, on Thanksgiving Day, thousands of people, no matter how busy they are, reunite with their families and all enjoy a nice holiday dinner together.

The Thanksgiving holiday is also the most stressful time for U.S. airlines, and the planes are almost always full, and there are often missed flights. But in order to spend the holiday with their families***, people are probably willing to do so.

Every Thanksgiving, Americans eat turkey in every household. The turkey has become the symbol of Thanksgiving, and they usually eat traditional dishes such as zucchini, creamed onions, mashed potatoes, and squash pie.

In addition, people will go to church to pray for thanksgiving according to the custom, the city and town are held everywhere in costume parades, theater performances and sports competitions, etc., the school and the store are also in accordance with the provisions of the holiday rest. Children also imitated the appearance of the Indians dressed in strange and bizarre costumes, painted face or wearing a mask to the street singing, blowing the trumpet. Families from the diaspora come home for Thanksgiving, where they sit around, munch on delicious turkey, and say thank you to their families. After Thanksgiving, the school asks students to draw a picture of Thanksgiving, and most of them draw a turkey.

Meanwhile, hospitable Americans can't forget this day to invite close friends, bachelors, or people far from home*** to spend the holiday. Since the 18th century, there has been a custom in the United States to send baskets of food to poor families. At the time, a group of young women wanted to choose one day of the year to dedicate to good works and thought it would be most appropriate to pick Thanksgiving. So when Thanksgiving came around, they filled a basket full of food and delivered it to the poor in person. The story spread far and wide, and soon many people followed their example. No matter who they met, they would say, "Thank you!"

Americans also used to call the Friday after Thanksgiving "Black Friday". On this day, all kinds of stores in the United States will be discounted goods sales, in recent years more and more intense, and even some merchants to discount the day ahead of the Thanksgiving Day, every year set off the United States shopping frenzy.

Canadians: the celebration of the holiday has nothing to do with religion

Canada and the United States Thanksgiving Day is not in the same day, because of its higher latitude, grain ripening season is relatively early, and its with the Americans to remember the Puritans The tradition of the pioneers of the settlement of the New World is different, and Canadians are mainly thankful for the harvest of success given to the heavens. Thanksgiving is mainly to celebrate the harvest, thank nature, thank God for giving abundant `sunshine and manna, let the grain grow as the theme of thanksgiving, and no religious color, therefore, Canada's Thanksgiving Day is earlier than the United States, scheduled to celebrate the event is on the second Monday in October.

Canadians also gather as a family to enjoy roast turkey and pumpkin pie, the most classic Thanksgiving image. Traditionally, a roast turkey is stuffed with croutons, onions, celery, and sage, and then baked in the oven until it is ready to be served. Housewives like to buy a large turkey because if they can't finish it on the same day, they can turn it into a turkey pie or a turkey tart. As for pumpkin pie, the most traditional way to eat it in Canada is to drizzle it with cranberry sauce, which is produced in abundance, and the trick to making it is to use canned pumpkin to make it more flavorful than fresh.

Egyptians: Pretend to cry over corn

Harvest festivals in ancient Egypt were held in honor of Min, their god of crops. Their harvest season was spring, so this festival was held every spring. The festival began with a procession, followed by a festive feast. At the same time, music, dance and sports competitions were also part of their celebrations.

Ancient Egyptians celebrated the corn harvest by pretending to cry and grieve, in order to deceive the "spirit" that they believed existed in the corn, which they feared would be angered by the corn that was still growing after the harvest.

Jews: Seder under the stars in a hut

The Jews also celebrated the harvest with a holiday called Kol Nidre, the Jewish harvest festival. It has been celebrated every fall for more than 3,000 years. "It begins on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei in the Hebrew lunar calendar, which is the 15th day of the month of July in the Jewish calendar, and the fifth day after Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement for the Jews.

During the eight-day festival of Kol Nidre, Jews erected huts with tree branches as a reminder of the altars at which their ancestors worshipped. The huts are temporary, the branches are not inserted into the ground, and the roofs are thatched to allow light to enter. Fruits and vegetables, including apples, grapes, corn and pomegranates, were hung in the huts. On the second day of the holiday, the Jews held their festive feast in the huts under the starlight.

Greeks: Cake and Fruit for the Goddess of Agriculture

The ancient Greeks believed in many gods and goddesses, including a goddess of agriculture, marriage, and abundance called Demeter, in whose honor the festival of Thesmosphoria was held in the fall of each year. The "Thesmosphoria" festival was held by the Greeks every fall in honor of this goddess. On the first day of the festival, married women built huts covered with leaves and placed benches made of plants inside. The next day is a day of fasting, and on the third day a feast is held with gifts of corn seeds, cakes, fruits and pigs.

Britain, France, and other European countries: insulation from Thanksgiving

France, Britain, and other European countries insulation from Thanksgiving. The British do not celebrate Thanksgiving, and the single most important holiday for them is Christmas. Europeans didn't have those experiences on the American continent and didn't have to give thanks to Indians on another continent far away, so they don't have Thanksgiving. This is because the holiday has deep American historical origins and involves the religion of the time. Many people think that Thanksgiving is a holiday that is passed down throughout Europe and the United States, but this is actually wrong. Generally speaking, on Thanksgiving Day to congratulate Europeans "Happy Thanksgiving" is a very rude behavior, is likely to attract resentment.