母親節的由來英語資料

故事時間：2021-08-31 手機版

　　母愛是春天的雨，滋潤我們成長;母愛是夏天的風，給我們涼爽;母愛是秋天的果實，給我們能量;母愛更是冬天的陽光，給我們溫暖。

母親節的由來英語資料

　　母親節的起源 History of Mother′s Day

　　In the U.S. Mothers' Day is a holiday celebrated on second Sunday in May. It is a day when children honor their mothers with cards, gifts, and flowers. First observance in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1907, it is based on suggestions by Julia Ward Howe in 1872 and by Anna Jarvis in 1907. Although it wasn't celebrated in the U.S. until 1907, there were days honoring mothers even in the days of ancient Greece. In those days, however, it was Rhea, the Mother of the gods that was given honor.

　　Later, in the 1600's, in England there was an annual observance called "Mothering Sunday." It was celebrated during June, on the fourth Sunday. On Mothering Sunday, the servants, who generally lived with their employers, were encouraged to return home and honor their mothers. It was traditional for them to bring a special cake along to celebrate the occasion.

　　In the U.S., in 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day. Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary of her mother's death, the 2nd Sunday of May. The next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.

　　Jarvis and others began a letter-writing campaign to ministers, businessmen, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day. They were successful. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day a national observance that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May.

　　Many other countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at different times throughout the year. Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May, as in the U.S.

　　節日禮物/母親節

　　康乃馨

　　1934年5月，美國首次發行母親節紀念郵票，郵票上一位慈祥的母親，雙手放康乃馨在膝上，欣喜地看著前面的花瓶中一束鮮艷美麗的康乃馨。隨著郵票的傳播，在許多人的心目中把母親節與康乃馨聯系起來，康乃馨便成了象征母愛之花，受到人們的敬重。國際上獻給母親的花是康乃馨，它在纖細青翠的花莖上，開著鮮艷美麗的花朵，花瓣緊湊而不易凋落，葉片細長而不易卷曲，花朵雍容富麗，姿態高雅別致。紅色的康乃馨象征熱情，正義，美好和永不放棄，祝愿母親健康長壽;粉色的康乃馨，祈祝母親永遠年輕美麗;白色的康乃馨，象征兒女對母親純潔的愛和真摯的謝意;黃色花朵象征感恩，感謝母親的辛勤付出。

　　萱草

　　萱草，在我國一向有“母親花”的美稱。遠在《詩經、衛風、伯兮》里載：“焉得諼草，言樹之背?”諼草就是萱草，古人又叫它忘憂草，背，北，指母親住的北房。這句話的意思就是：我到哪里弄到一支萱草，種在母親堂前，讓母親樂而忘憂呢?母親住的屋子又叫萱堂，以萱草代替母愛，如孟郊的游子詩：“萱草生堂階，游子行天涯;慈母依堂前，不見萱草花。”葉夢得的詩云：“白發萱堂上，孩兒更共懷。”萱草就成了母親的代稱，萱草也就自然成了我國的母親之花。

　　萱草花，又叫忘憂草。它是百合科多年生草本植物，根莖肉質，葉狹長，細長的枝頂端開出

　　桔紅或桔黃色的花，十分艷麗，非常適合供人觀賞，它的花蕾叫金針，所以也叫金針蕾。在母親節，子女為母親送上一株忘憂草，祝福母親遠離煩惱和憂愁，身心愉悅，健康長壽。

　　節日禮物——花束

　　真情不變

　　永恒的愛組成：11枝粉色康乃馨，1枝多頭白香水百合，滿天星，排草，內層粉色綿紙包裝，外層粉色皺紋紙包裝，淡紫色緞帶打結。圓形花束。

　　組成：20枝粉色康乃馨，綠葉，石松，滿天星，粉紅色布紋包裝紙，紅色絲帶。

　　吾愛吾家

　　組成：5枝金百合+5枝玫瑰+2枝非洲菊給你一個心靈的港灣，給你一個永遠的歸宿，家，你不悔的選擇!

　　母恩永遠

　　組成：2枝火百合+18枝康乃馨您曾說堅持雖不一定成功，但放棄的結果一定是失敗。

　　給母親的'愛

　　組成：18枝康乃馨+滿天星