Thanksgiving Day!

KittyJ

The fourth Thursday in November is the Thanksgiving Day.：）
But, now, it's around 6:30PM Wednesday in US time!! That's to say they will celebrate it tomorrow and will have one-day holiday.
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lqzhang78

Yes,they will have a one-day holiday.Do you have any parties to celebrate it?
It is popular now to celebrate foreign holidays.

KittyJ

I'm afraid Thanksgiving Day will not be celebrated here in Shanghai.
As far as I know, we usally will have party in Christmas Day!!! It's more popular than any other foreign festivals.

Our company is an US based corporation, tomorrow, in US part, they will enjoy the
one-day holiday, but, unfortunately, not for us. Here in Shanghai part, we will still come to office.hehe.....[em20][em20]

lqzhang78

Our company is also an US based corporation.We will have to come to office too.
It sounds regreted.But never mind.We will have our own chinese festivals.

KittyJ

Yeah! We got our own fantastic tranditional festivals~~~~~~~~~~
Even that we celebrate the foreign festival, we still can not catch the deep soul of it~~~~
That's what I think of western festivals.
Finally, we arn not native speakers of English, so the culture difference is there to stay and you can never change something.

小小

In fact, I always think we should keep the heart of appreciation. Thank our parents, our friends, our teachers, and all those who ever helped or will help us in our precious life.
Do you think so?

KittyJ

Yes, absolutely agree with you!!!
Though we will not celebrate this Thanksgiving Day, we still have our brilliant gratitude to people around us~~~~~~~

lqzhang78

I agree with you too,小小，nice to meet you!
today,in america,is thanksgiving day,we can not enjoy it as they do,but we should thank everything we got as they do,thank our parents ,thank our teachers,thank our country leaders,thank all the people around us.

KittyJ

The Fourth Thursday of November (the United States) is Thanksgiving Day.Let's take a look at how did this festival came out.
   The Pilgrims, who celebrated the first thanksgiving in America, were fleeing religious prosecution (政治迫害) in their native England. In 1609 a group of Pilgrims (英国清教徒)
left England for the religious freedom in Holland where they lived and prospered.
After a few years，they found the Dutch frivolous (肤浅的，无聊的) and their ideas a
threat to their children's education and morality.So they decided to leave Holland and
travel to the New World. It was agreed that the Pilgrims would be given passage and supplies
in exchange for their working for their backers for 7 years. On Sept. 6, 1620 the Pilgrims
set sail for the New World on a ship called the Mayflower.
   
   The dangerous trip was cold and damp, took 65 days, during which many passengers became
sick and one person died by the time land was sighted on November 10th. They finally settled
in Plymouth which offered an excellent harbor and they found the local Native American Indians a peaceful group.
    With generous help of the native Indians, the survivors embraced their first harvest
after their bitter struggle with the first harsh winter in Plymouth. Since the Pilgrims
had much to celebrate, they had built homes in the wilderness, they had raised enough crops
to keep them alive during the long coming winter.

   The Pilgrim Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving to be shared by
all the colonists and the neighboring Native Americans.
   However, the 3rd year brought a spring and summer that was hot and dry with the crops
dying in the fields. Governor Bradford ordered a day of fasting and prayer, and it was soon
thereafter that the rain came. To celebrate - November 29th of that year was proclaimed
a day of thanksgiving. This date is believed to be the real true beginning of the present day Thanksgiving Day.

   The custom of an annually celebrated thanksgiving, held after the harvest, continued
through the years.In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed a national day of thanksgiving.
Since then each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation, usually designating
the fourth Thursday of each November as the holiday.