母亲节(Mother's Day),是一个感谢母亲的节日。这个节日最早出现在古希腊;而现代的母亲节起源于美国,是每年5月的第二个星期日。母亲们在这一天通常会收到礼物,康乃馨被视为献给母亲的花,而中国的母亲花是萱草花,又叫忘忧草。
Mother's Day (Mother's Day), is a mother's day. The festival first appeared in ancient Greece; the modern mother's Day originated in the United States, is the second Sunday of May each year. On this day mothers usually receive gifts, carnation flower is regarded as dedicated to his mother, and Chinese mother lily flower flower, also known as nepenthes.
母亲节的传统起源于古希腊。在一月八日这一天,古希腊人向希腊众神之母瑞亚(英文:Rhea、Cybele,希腊文:宙斯、波塞冬、哈德斯、得墨忒耳、赫拉和赫斯提亚的母亲,故称众神之母)致敬。到古罗马时,这些活动的规模就变得更大,庆祝盛况往往持续达三天之久。当然,古时人们对女神的崇拜只不过是一种迷信,它同今天人们对母性的尊敬是大不相同的。
Mother's Day tradition originated in ancient Greece. On this day in January 8th, the ancient Greeks to the mother of the Greek gods Rhea (in English: Rhea, Cybele, Greek: Jose, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hera and Hess, the mother, so that the mother of the gods). In ancient Rome, the scale of these activities becomes bigger, to celebrate the grand often lasted for three days. Of course, the ancient people of the goddess worship is only a superstition, it is with people today respect of motherhood is not the same.
17世纪中叶,母亲节流传到英国,英国人把封斋期的第四个星期天作为母亲节。在这一天里,出门在外的年轻人将回到家中,给他们的母亲带上一些小礼物。
The middle of the seventeenth Century, mother's day spread to Britain, the British on the fourth Sunday of Lent as a mother's day. On this day, the young people away from home, to their mother to bring some small gifts.
1876年,美国还在悲悼南北战争的死者。安娜·贾维斯夫人(Anna Jarvis)在礼拜堂讲授美国国殇纪念日的课程,讲到战役中捐躯的英雄故事后,她进行祈祷时说:“但愿在某处、某时,会有人创立一个母亲节,纪念和赞扬美国与全世界的母亲。”
In 1876, USA civil war still mourn the dead. Mrs. Anna Jarvis (Anna Jarvis) taught at the chapel of America memorial day of course, talked about the story of a hero who died in the battle, she said a prayer: "I hope that somewhere, sometime, someone will create a mother's day, to commemorate and praise USA and the mother of the world."
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