1、介紹美國飲食文化或風(fēng)土人情英文手抄報(bào)Mother s Day HistoryOrigin of Mothers Day goes back to the era of ancient Greek and Romans. But the roots of Mothers Day history can also be traced in UK where a Mothering Sunday was celebrated much before the festival saw the light of the day in US. However, the celebration of the

2、 festival as it is seen today is a recent phenomenon and not even a hundred years old. Thanks to the hard work of the pioneering women of their times, Julia Ward Howe and Anna Jarvis that the day came into existence. Today the festival of Mothers day is celebrated across 46 countries (though on diff

3、erent dates) and is a hugely popular affair. Millions of people across the globe take the day as an opportunity to honor their mothers, thank them for their efforts in giving them life, raising them and being their constant support and well wisher.Earliest History of Mothers DayThe earliest history

4、of Mothers Day dates back to the ancient annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to maternal goddesses. The Greeks used the occasion to honor Rhea, wife of Cronus and the mother of many deities of Greek mythology.Ancient Romans, too, celebrated a spring festival, called Hilaria dedicated to Cybe

5、le, a mother goddess. It may be noted that ceremonies in honour of Cybele began some 250 years before Christ was born. The celebration made on the Ides of March by making offerings in the temple of Cybele lasted for three days and included parades, games and masquerades. The celebrations were notori

6、ous enough that followers of Cybele were banished from Rome.Early Christians celebrated a Mothers Day of sorts during the festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent in honor of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Christ. In England the holiday was expanded to include all mothers. It was then called Mothering

7、Sunday.Fathers DayIn the 1900s, Fathers Day was created when Sonora Louise Smart Dodd wanted to express her deep appreciation to her own father, William Smart, who was widowed when his wife died at giaing binfh. Mr. Smart raised his six children on a rural farm in eastern Washington State. When Ms.

8、Dodd was grown she wanted to show her appreciation to her father. So, in 1909, she proposed a day to honor her father in June (the month of her fathers birth).The very first Fathers Day followed on June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge showed support of this becoming a national holiday. However, it wasnt until 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson officially proclaimed Fathers Day a national holiday to be celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of June.父親節(jié)二十世紀(jì)初，蘇娜路易絲史墨多德想要向他的父親威廉史墨 表達(dá)敬意，于是產(chǎn)生了父親節(jié)。她父親在他妻子難產(chǎn)而死以后，就一 直鰥居。史墨先生在東華盛頓州的農(nóng)莊中獨(dú)力撫養(yǎng)大六個(gè)孩子。當(dāng)多德女士長大成人后，她覺得要向父親致敬。于是，在