感恩节的由来（TheOriginofThanksgivingDay）
感恩节的由来（The Origin of Thanksgiving Day）
Thanksgiving Day
Fourth Thursday in November
关于食物的作文Almost every culture in the world has held celebrations of thanks for a plentiful harvest. The American Thanksgiving holiday began as a feast of thanksgiving in the early days of the American colonies almost four hundred years ago.
In 1620, a boat filled with more than one hundred people sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to ttle in the New World（新大陆）. This religious group had begun to question the beliefs of the Church of England and they wanted to parate from it. The Pilgrims ttled in what is now the state of Massachutts. Their first winter in the New World was difficult. They had arrived too late to grow many crops, and without fresh food, half the colony died from dia. The following spring the Iroquois Indians（美国纽约州东北部易洛魁族印第安
人）taught them how to grow corn, a new food for the colonists. They showed them other crops to grow in the unfamiliar soil and how to hunt and fish.
In the autumn of 1621, bountiful crops of corn, barley（大麦）, beans and pumpkins were harvested. The colonists had much to be thankful for, so a feast was planned. They invited the local Indian chief and 90 Indians. The Indians brought deer to roast with the turkeys and other wild game offered by the colonists. The colonists had learned how to cook cranberries and different kinds of corn and squash dishes from the Indians. To this first Thanksgiving, the Indians had even brought popcorn.专业硕士和学术硕士的区别
In following years, many of the original colonists celebrated the autumn harvest with a feast of thanks.
幼儿园的滑梯After the United States became an independent country, Congress recommended one yearly day of thanksgiving for the whole nation to celebrate. George Washington suggested the date November 26 as Thanksgiving Day. Then in 1863, at the end of a long and bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln asked all Americans to t aside the last Thur
视知觉训练sday in November as a day of thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November, a different date every year. The President must proclaim that date as the official celebration.
Thanksgiving is a time for tradition and sharing. Even if they live far away, family members gather for a reunion at the hou of an older relative. All give thanks together for the good things that they have.
面粉做面条In this spirit of sharing, civic groups and charitable organizations offer a traditional meal to tho in need, particularly the homeless. On most tables throughout the United States, foods eaten at the first thanksgiving have become traditional.
Symbols of Thanksgiving
Turkey, corn, pumpkins and cranberry sauce（酸果曼沙司）are symbols which reprent the first Thanksgiving. Now all of the symbols are drawn on holiday decorations and greeting cards. The u of corn meant the survival of the colonies. "Indian corn" as a tabl
e or door decoration reprents the harvest and the fall ason.
Sweet-sour cranberry sauce, or cranberry jelly, was on the first Thanksgiving table and is still rved today. The cranberry is a small, sour berry. It grows in bogs（沼泽）, or muddy areas, in Massachutts and other New England states. The Indians ud the fruit to treat infections. They ud the juice to dye their rugs and blankets. They taught the colonists how to cook the berries with sweetener（甜味佐料）and water to make a sauce. The Indians called it "ibimi" which means "bitter berry." When the colonists saw it, they named it "crane-berry" becau the flowers of the berry bent the stalk over, and it rembled the long-necked bird called a crane. The berries are still grown in New England.
In 1988, a Thanksgiving ceremony of a different kind took place at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. More than four thousand people gathered on Thanksgiving night. Among them were Native Americans reprenting tribes from all over the country and descendants of people who ancestors had migrated to the New World.
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The ceremony was a public acknowledgment of the Indians' role in the first Thanksgiving 350 years ago. Until recently most schoolchildren believed that the Pilgrims cooked the entire Thanksgiving feast, and offered it to the Indians. In fact, the feast was planned to thank the Indians for teaching them how to cook tho foods. Without the Indians, the first ttlers would not have survived.苹果手机开机
