Mother's Day has different manifestations in different countries:
China: On the second Sunday in May, people will use greeting cards and carnations to express their love. It was also suggested in A Girl Without Sadness (Hemerocallis fulva) that a girl without sadness should be used to thank her mother for her love.
Norway: Mother's Day is on the second Sunday in February.
Argentina: People celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in October.
Lebanon: Celebrate Mother's Day on the first day of spring.
South Africa: Mother's Day is set on the first Sunday in May.
Yugoslavia: Serbs in Yugoslavia call Mother's Day Materice, which is celebrated in the first two weeks of Christmas every year. The custom of celebration is that children sneak into their mother's room on the morning of Mother's Day and tie their mother to the bed. When her mother woke up, she found herself tied with flowers, so she begged the children to let her go and exchange the small gifts she hid under the pillow in advance.
Spain and Portugal: Mother's Day is closely related to the church. February 8, 65438 is a day to commemorate the Virgin Mary, and it is also a festival for children to express their love for their mothers.
Sweden: Mother's Day is celebrated on the last Sunday in May. On the eve of Mother's Day, the Swedish Red Cross will hold a charity sale of plastic mother flowers, and the proceeds from the charity sale will be used as a holiday fund to sponsor mothers with many children.
Panama: It is also called the day when the Holy Spirit is pregnant. The general idea is to make Panamanians pay attention to their families and respect their mothers. Therefore, May 1924, 1 1, the first Panamanian mother's day, 1930, was changed to February 8, 1938, signed by the first lady of Doa Hercelia de Arosemena, but
Egypt: The last Friday in March is Mother's Day in Egypt every year. On this day, teenagers all over the country will send flowers and gifts to their mothers, hold concerts and cultural performances for their mothers, and choose the most ideal mothers in the country. Mother's Day Fashion Mother's Gift
India: April 5th is Mother's Day in India every year. On this day, all mothers who have given birth to children should wear colorful saris and exquisite jewelry and come to public places to enjoy themselves, so as to show their feminine demeanor as mothers.
Central Africa: On May 29th every year, the Central African Republic will solemnly celebrate the traditional Mother's Day. On this day, mothers dressed in costumes and holding their children held a grand parade in the capital Bangui. State leaders and government officials should also take part in their festival activities to make the festival more grand and warm.
France: May 29th is Mother's Day in France every year. On this day, mothers all over the world accept their children's "happy holidays" with joy. 1928, Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time in France. At that time, the French President issued a decree that Mother's Day was a national legal holiday. Mother's Day in France is more like a family birthday party. Children will give their mothers carefully selected gifts, including jewelry and meaningful gifts. Mother's Day in France is set on the last Sunday in May. The whole family get together for dinner and make a cake for their mother after dinner.
Mother's Day Oil Painting Thailand: August 12 every year is Mother's Day in Thailand. During the festival, the most meaningful activity in the country is "Selecting Excellent Mothers". Then, thousands of daughters hold white jasmine flowers as "mother's flowers" to express their gratitude.
Japan: The second Sunday in May is Mother's Day in Japan every year. In Japan, this festival is full of yearning. Carnations are usually given as gifts to show respect for their mothers.
Canada: The second Sunday in May is Mother's Day every year. On this day, families not only give gifts to their mothers, but also do all kinds of things to make their mothers happy to show their love.
Switzerland: Every year 1 month 1 day to 4 th is "Women in Power Day". In these four days, all the power in the family is in the hands of women, and men are willing to be pushed around to show their respect for women.
Greece: Every year 1 8 is Innoclesia's "Women's Take-over Day". On this day, women take over the leadership of the town, while men stay at home to do housework instead of them. In Greece, every year on the second day of New Year's Eve, as a "housewife's rest day", women put down their housework and enjoy themselves.
Germany: In the annual carnival, there is also an activity specially held for women-"Women's Day". On this day, women rushed into the city hall, broke into the office and sat on the table to show that women took over the political power. August is the "wife's day" in Hamburg. During the festival, art troupes organized by women perform in theaters all over the city, and most of the programs are about gender equality.
Britain: In order to show respect for mothers, England designated the fourth Sunday of Lent as "Mothering Sunday", on which people went home to visit their parents and pay their respects. At that time, many poor people had to work as domestic helpers in rich people's homes and were forced to leave home to stay with their masters. On this day, the host will give them a holiday and encourage them to go home and reunite with their mother.
Mexico: Every year1February 12 is Mexico's "Mother's Day" to commemorate a kind-hearted person who is willing to save lives. On this day, people wear national costumes, hold high the banner of the Madonna, and sing and dance under the leadership of the elderly.
The origin of Mother's Day:
The tradition of Mother's Day originated in ancient Greece: 1 8th of the month. The ancient Greeks paid tribute to Rhea, the mother of the Greek gods (English: Rhea, Cybele, Greek: the mother of Zeus, Poseidon, Hadders, Demeter, Hera and Hestia, so it was called the mother of the gods). When they arrived in ancient Rome, these activities became even larger, and the celebrations often lasted for three days. Of course, the worship of the goddess in ancient times was just a superstition, which is very different from the respect for motherhood today.
/kloc-In the middle of the 0/7th century, Mother's Day spread to Britain, and the British took the fourth Sunday of fasting as Mother's Day. On this day, young people who go out will go home and bring some small gifts to their mothers.
1876, the United States is still mourning the victims of the civil war. Anna anna jarvis teaches American Memorial Day in a chapel. After telling the story of the hero who died in the battle, she prayed, "I hope that somewhere and at some time, someone will create a Mother's Day to commemorate and praise mothers in the United States and around the world."
Mrs Jarvis has served her church for more than 25 years. When Anna Jarvis, a 465,438+0-year-old daughter, died at the age of 72, she decided to create Mother's Day to realize her mother's wish many years ago. Anna has written to many celebrities, asking them to support the establishment of Mother's Day to promote filial piety. At first, she was indifferent, but she was not discouraged and continued to appeal to all walks of life. 1907 On May 12, Andre Methodist Church held a week for mothers at the invitation of Anna. The following year, this ceremony was held in Philadelphia, which received enthusiastic response, and finally won the support of the governor of Victoria, and announced the establishment of Mother's Day in the state on 19 10. 19 1 1 mother's day celebrations have been widely carried out, not only in every state in the United States of America, but also in some countries in Canada, Mexico and South America. Americans also distribute leaflets promoting Mother's Day to countries all over the world in ten different languages to expand their influence. In the following years, the upsurge of celebrating Mother's Day became increasingly high. 19 12, the United States of America established the Mother's Day International Association.
1913 in may, the house of representatives of the United States of America unanimously passed a resolution calling on the president and all officials of the cabinet, the house of representatives and the federal government to wear white carnations on mother's day. 19 14, the Congress of the United States of America officially named the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, and asked the President to issue a declaration calling on government officials to fly the national flag on all public buildings. Then, President Wilson told citizens all over the country to hang the national flag in their homes to show their love and respect for all mothers in the United States of America. Since then, the President of the United States of America has issued a declaration with the same content every year. Since then, Mother's Day has been held in various countries.
Mother's Day in China:
China Mother's Day, also known as Chinese Mother's Day, is a festival proposed by experts and scholars in recent years to promote Chinese traditional culture and cherish maternal love. Like Christmas in China, Thanksgiving in China and Father's Day in China, it is still a "festival" that has not been formally determined.
On July 6th, 2006, the second Nuwa Landscape Tourism Festival was held in Guling, Qixian County, Henan Province. Some scholars suggested that Nu Wa's birthday should be "China Mother's Day".
On June 5438+February 65438+March 2007, the inaugural meeting and the first plenary meeting of the Mother's Day Promotion Association were held in Zoucheng, Shandong Province, the hometown of Mencius. At the meeting, the initiative of "Creating Mother's Day in China" was issued.
Motherly love is the greatest and most selfless. Maternal love is a wonderful flower in the emotional world of human beings, and it is sincere, noble and lasting love. It is precisely because of its inheritance that there is a way of "the beginning of life, the nature is good"; Love is the eternal theme of this world. The mother has been working hard for her children all her life, pregnant in October and providing supplies for the fetus; Babies suck their mothers' milk when they leave infancy; Meticulous care and care in childhood; The cultivation and education in childhood, marriage, family and career problems in adulthood all affect the mother's heart. In ancient Meng Mu, in order to give children a good learning environment, they worked hard and moved many times. On 5 12? In the Wenchuan earthquake, a young mother blocked the collapsed house with her body in order to save her child, and exchanged her life for her child's second life. She showed the world the greatness of her mother and the charm of motherhood with her actions.
Filial piety to mother is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. Filial piety has always been emphasized in the long cultural river with a long history of 5,000 years in China. The Book of Filial Piety records the story that Liu Heng, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, personally tasted the decoction. His mother was ill for three years, and he often disappeared and took off his clothes. He asked his mother to take the potion she took, and he didn't feel at ease until he tasted it. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ding Lan, a native of Hanoi, missed the kindness of his parents, so he carved a statue of his parents out of wood. As the vice premier of the country, Chen Yi personally washed diapers for her sick mother; General Feng Yuxiang took his birthday as "Mother's Day" and fasted for one day to commemorate his mother. Mr Jiang Jingguo wrote "blood out" next to the house where his birth mother was killed by a Japanese plane. He was determined to avenge his mother. All these reflect the love and filial piety of China people to their great mother. There are many works about "filial piety" in Confucian classics: "Filial piety is the foundation of virtue, and the principle of teaching is also born." "So, from the Emperor to Shu Ren, filial piety did not always exist, and neither did the sufferer." There is a saying in the Analects that "a gentleman should be a teacher and be born from the foundation." Filial piety is also the foundation of benevolence! "In the" University ","Filial piety is the only thing for a child; Being a father stops at kindness. There is such a saying in the Book of Rites that "a filial piety is good at inheriting people's aspirations and being kind to people." There is a sentence in the article "Advise the newspaper to be kind": "Filial piety is the first in the world, and a word of filial piety makes the whole family safe. People should be filial to their parents, and filial to their parents is like respecting heaven. There is a saying in Disciples Rules: "Be filial first, and believe it next time." "Confucius' Family" has: "Filial piety is the beginning of virtue; Hey, the rank of virtue is also. "
Take this as an example and learn to respect your parents and care for your mother. The man of the hour in every era is a model of paying attention to filial piety and respecting mothers. There is a cloud in the Analects of Confucius: "filial piety today is called nurturing." As for dogs and horses, you can keep them. Disrespect, why not? " This means that parents should not only "nurture" but also "respect", otherwise it is tantamount to dogs and horses. There is also a cloud in Mencius, "A dutiful son is greater than respect for his relatives." After learning some knowledge, many students' book knowledge soared, and some often surpassed their parents. Therefore, they feel that they have grown up, regard their parents' teaching as "superfluous", are prone to argue irrationally, and some even speak ill of themselves, lacking due respect and courtesy. Infect students with stories of ancient and modern celebrities honoring their parents, so that students can respect and care more about their parents in life.
Start from the side and learn to be grateful. The ancients said well: "The grace of dripping water is rewarded when the water gushes." Mother gave us life and raised us with hardships. This kindness is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea. We should be grateful for the gift of this life. We should learn to repay our mother and appreciate this regretless effort. How can a person who doesn't even know how to be grateful to his mother expect to be kind to his teachers and friends? When the country is in trouble, how can we expect him to shed his blood for her? If everyone is so selfish, where can there be warmth in society? With a grateful heart, from caring for parents, learn to be kind to life, thank parents and society.
Carry forward maternal love and inherit filial piety. Filial piety education is the basic project of socialist spiritual civilization construction, which endows the word "filial piety" with deeper connotation. It not only requires us to be filial to our parents, but also advocates that we respect the old and love the young, help the weak and help the poor, have a sense of responsibility to society, know how to repay parents, teachers, others, society and gratitude, and ask us to be loyal to the motherland. Huang Xiang is the hotbed of his father, and Lu Ji is pregnant with withered oranges, leaving his relatives behind. These long-standing stories reflect the sincere feelings of the ancient working people for filial piety. However, it is difficult to see the continuation and development of this virtue in some teenagers today. Some students are "little emperors" at home, often contradicting their parents, selfish and willful, unfilial and disrespectful, which affects the sound development of their personality. In contemporary times, it is necessary to widely promote maternal love, let children feel the hardships and difficulties of their parents, let the wind of inheritance have a festival that can be highlighted and seriously experienced, let children all over the world have a festival that is awakened and exquisitely expressed, and let the Chinese filial piety spirit be passed down forever.
To sum up, in order to maintain the blood of Chinese culture and cultivate the spirit of the Chinese nation, China should set up its own Mother's Day to reflect the great and traditional filial piety of Chinese mothers, arouse modern people's awareness of respecting and caring for their mothers more, and make them have a grateful heart, know how to repay their parents, teachers, others and society, and be loyal and filial to the motherland. Li and some experts and scholars suggested that the second day of the fourth lunar month, when Mencius was born, should be designated as "China Mother's Day", which could be the first choice. In addition, the "vernal equinox" of the lunar calendar contains the meaning of life recovery and vitality, which is also a good choice and worth recommending. When Mother's Day is scheduled is not the point. It can be decided by online public voting and should conform to public opinion. But it is imperative to set up China's own Mother's Day!