Thanksgiving Day

November 24 is the last Thursday in November.

There was no certain date for Thanksgiving. It was decided by the states on a whim. It wasn’t until 1863, after independence, that president Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday.

The last Thursday in November is Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving Day is an ancient festival created by the American people. It is also a holiday for the American family to get together. Therefore, When Americans mention Thanksgiving Day, they always feel warm.

The origin of Thanksgiving Day goes back to the beginning of American history. In 1620, the famous ship “Mayflower” arrived in America with 102 Pilgrims who could not endure religious persecution in England. In the winter between 1620 and 1621, they encountered unimaginable difficulties, suffering from hunger and cold. When the winter was over, only about 50 settlers survived. At this time, the kind-hearted Indian gave the immigrants the necessities of life, but also specially sent people to teach them how to hunt, fishing and planting corn, pumpkin. With the help of The Indians, the immigrants finally got the harvest. On the day of celebrating the harvest, in accordance with religious traditions and customs, the immigrants stipulated the day of thanking God, and decided to thank the Sincere help of the Indians to invite them to celebrate the festival.

In the first Thanksgiving Day of this day, the Indians and immigrants happily get together, they fired a gun salute at dawn, lined up into a house used as a church, devout to express gratitude to God, and then lit a bonfire held a grand banquet. Wrestling, running, singing, dancing and other activities were held on the second and third days. The first Thanksgiving was a great success. Many of these celebrations have been celebrated for more than 300 years and remain to this day.

Every Thanksgiving Day this day, the United States is very busy across the country, people according to the custom to the church to do Thanksgiving prayer, urban and rural towns everywhere held masquerade parades, theater performances and sports games, schools and stores are also in accordance with the provisions of the holiday. Children also imitate the appearance of the Indians in strange costumes, painted faces or masks to sing in the street, trumpet. Families from other parts of the country also return home for the holiday, where families sit together and munch on delicious Turkey.

At the same time, hospitable Americans don’t forget to invite friends, bachelors, or people far from home to celebrate the holiday. Since the 18th century, there has been an American custom of giving a basket of food to the poor. A group of young women wanted to set aside a day of the year to do a good deed and decided that Thanksgiving would be the perfect day. So when Thanksgiving came, they would take a basket of qing dynasty food to the poor family. The story was heard far and wide, and soon many others were following their example.

The most important meal of the year for Americans is the Thanksgiving dinner. In America, a fast-paced, competitive country, the daily diet is extremely simple. But on Thanksgiving night, every family has a big feast, and the abundance of food is amazing. Turkey and pumpkin pie are on the holiday table for everyone from the president to the working class. Therefore, Thanksgiving Day is also called “Turkey Day”.

Thanksgiving food is full of traditional features. Turkey is the traditional main course of Thanksgiving. It was originally a wild bird that lived in North America, but has since been raised in large numbers to become a delicacy. Each bird can weigh up to 40 or 50 pounds. Turkey belly is usually stuffed with a variety of spices and mixed food, and then the whole roast, chicken skin roast dark brown, by the male host knife cut slices distributed to everyone. Then each one of them put the marinade on it and sprinkled it with salt, and it was delicious. In addition, the traditional Thanksgiving food is sweet potato, corn, pumpkin pie, cranberry jam, homemade bread and a variety of vegetables and fruits.

For many years, celebrate Thanksgiving traditions handed down from generation to generation, whether in the rocky coastlines of Hawaii’s west coast or in the scenic, almost in the same way people celebrate Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving is no matter what faith, what americans are celebrating the traditional ethnic festivals, today, a lot of people around the world began celebrating the Thanksgiving.