It turned out to be a child next door, only to see him nervously ask, "Auntie, do you have any candles at home? The woman thought, "Is their family so poor that they don't even have candles? Never lend them, lest you be dependent on them!
So, I yelled at the child and said, "No! Just as she was about to close the door, the poor child spread a caring smile and said, "I knew there must be no one in your house!" After that, I took out two candles from my arms and said, "Mom and I are afraid that you will live alone and have no candles, so I brought two to send you.
At this moment, the woman blamed herself and was moved to tears, holding the child tightly in her arms.
② The origin of Thanksgiving Day: Thanksgiving Day originated from early immigrants in Plymouth, Massachusetts. These immigrants were called Puritans when they were in Britain. Because they were dissatisfied with the incomplete religious reform of the Church of England and the political repression and religious persecution by the King and the Church of England, these Puritans left the Church of England and left for Holland. Later, they decided to move to the desolate land on the other side of the Atlantic, hoping to live freely in accordance with their wishes.
In September p>162, the ship "may flower" left England with 12 Puritans and their families for the North American continent. After more than two months of hard sailing, it landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and settled down from then on. In the first winter, due to lack of food, cold weather, epidemic diseases and overwork, more than half of these Puritans died at once. The following spring, Masasuode, the chief of the local Indian tribe, led the kind-hearted Indians, gave the Puritans grain seeds and taught them to hunt, grow crops and fish. With the help of Indians, the Puritans had a bumper harvest that year. William Bradford, the first governor, suggested setting up a festival to celebrate the harvest and thank God for his gift. At the same time, I also want to take this festival to strengthen the harmonious relationship between whites and Indians. On Thursday in late November, 1621, the Puritans and 9 Indians brought by Massasod got together to celebrate the first Thanksgiving in American history. Male Puritans went out hunting and catching turkeys, while women made delicious food with corn, pumpkin, sweet potato and fruit at home. In this way, white people and Indians ate, talked and sang and danced around the bonfire, and the whole celebration lasted for three days.
Since then, Europeans who immigrated to the United States have basically followed the form of the first Thanksgiving celebration on the North American continent. In 1789, the first president of the United States, Washington, officially stipulated that November 26th was the first Thanksgiving day celebrated by the whole country. However, for a long time, each state has set a holiday date according to its own situation. In 1941, with the approval of President Roosevelt, the United States Congress passed a bill declaring the fourth Thursday of November as the national Thanksgiving Day.
③ the meaning of gratitude: the word "gratitude" is defined as "willing to show gratitude for the benefits and give back to others". In short, it is "the grace of dripping water, and the spring is rewarded." First of all, gratitude is a virtue. When a person's behavior is not an obligation to cope with, but a dedication, his behavior has not only moral value, but also virtue value. Gratitude is from the heart, and it exceeds the scope and degree of obligation, so gratitude is not a general moral norm, but a virtue. Secondly, gratitude is a kind of wisdom. Gratitude comes from understanding, and a person who can't know himself correctly and is arrogant won't have gratitude; A person who can't correctly understand the goodwill of others will not be grateful. In today's life, there is a saying "Long live understanding", and people who can't understand others correctly will not be grateful. In life, if you give benefits to a "mentally retarded" person, he or she will not even say "thank you". Therefore, if it is immoral to be ungrateful, then it is unwise to be ungrateful, and it is impolite to be ungrateful. Some people don't say "thank you", and it's not that he doesn't understand. To some extent, it's his rudeness. It is from this perspective that gratitude is a kind of wisdom. It can be seen that people who know how to be grateful are not only moral people, but also intelligent people. Rousseau said: A person who doesn't know how to be moved and grateful is the most ignorant and failed person, and also the one who deserves the least respect from others. Third, gratitude is an "investment", and there must be a return. Gratitude is sowing good causes. Grateful people do not expect to return subjectively, but they will return objectively, because everything is dialectical. There is an old saying in China that "good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil". "Give someone a rose, and your hands are full of fragrance", which is the truth.
(a) gratitude is conducive to promoting harmony between people. Live with gratitude, people will be humble and humble, and they will have a friendly sense of awe to the outside world. Gratitude can strengthen the emotional communication between people and promote the harmonious coexistence between people. Building a harmonious society requires individual harmony. The essence of individual harmony is psychological harmony, which is most beneficial to people's psychological harmony.
(2) Gratitude helps to ease the contradictions in work and life. At present, there are many contradictions in work and life, for example, the provincial bureau regulates the payment of subsidies for Tianjin, the income of cadres is less, while prices are rising, the hands and feet are a little tight, and the purchasing power is declining. If we look at the existence of these contradictions with gratitude, we will understand the good intentions of the superior decision-making, feel contented, and will not affect the work enthusiasm because of the relative decrease in income.
(C) Gratitude is conducive to enhancing the social responsibility of cadres. As an ordinary person, if he lives with gratitude, he will be grateful to his parents, exercise his body so as not to worry his parents, exercise his ability and get a job of his own, so that his parents' painstaking efforts in his growth in the past few decades can be rewarded as they deserve, which will increase their motivation to move forward. If, as a leading cadre, he is trusted by the masses, recommended by the masses, and entrusted by the organization, if he works with a grateful mood, then he can do the work well. As a local tax cadre, if he can work with gratitude, he will have the sense of responsibility of "gathering wealth for the country". Through gratitude, we can enhance personality charm and growth strength, thus making people more responsible for society. It can be said that people who are grateful can achieve great things.