Is Mother's Day a holiday in China or a foreign holiday?

Mother's Day is a western festival, which spread from western countries to China, and now it has become an international celebration festival. Mother's Day is a time to thank your mother. Modern Mother's Day originated in America, and it is the second Sunday in May every year.

First of all, the origin of Mother's Day.

Mother's Day originated in America. The founder of this festival is anna jarvis, who is from Philadelphia. This woman has never been married and has no children. 1906 On May 9th, anna jarvis's mother passed away, and she was very sad. The following year, on the anniversary of his mother's death, Jarvis organized activities in memory of his mother and encouraged others to express their gratitude to their beloved mother in a similar way.

Jarvis wrote to Andrews Methodist Church in grafton, West Virginia, asking for a special memorial service for her mother. Her mother served the Sunday school of this church for more than 20 years before her death. 1908, the church declared the anniversary of Jarvis' mother's death-the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. Jarvis also organized a Mother's Day Committee and began a large-scale publicity, calling for Mother's Day to be a legal holiday.

Her appeal received a warm response. 1913 On May 10, the US Senate and House of Representatives passed a resolution, and President Wilson signed an announcement, deciding that the second Sunday in May is Mother's Day every year. This move has caused countries all over the world to follow suit. By the time Jarvis died in 1948, Mother's Day had been established in 43 countries.

II. Introduction and popularization

Mother's Day came into the mainland after it became popular in China, Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan Province. Precious jewels, carnations symbolizing maternal love, special love desserts and exquisite handmade greeting cards have become love gifts for mothers.

In 1980s, Mother's Day was gradually accepted by China people. Starting from 1988, some cities in the south of China (such as Guangzhou) began to hold mother's day celebrations, and chose "good mother" as one of the contents.

At the end of the 20th century, with the integration of China into the international community, Mother's Day became more and more popular in Chinese mainland, and more and more people began to accept the concept of Mother's Day. On the second Sunday of May every year, people in China and other countries in the world express their gratitude to their mothers in various ways. Of course, Mother's Day in China is more like China. China people express their deep affection in their unique way. On Mother's Day, people will give their mothers flowers, cakes, homemade meals and other gifts. In China, children who have been filial to their parents since childhood will try to cook, wash their faces, make up, play music and draw pictures for their mothers to celebrate the festival happily. On this day, people will not only pay tribute to their biological mothers, but also return their affection to more mothers through charitable fund-raising and voluntary service.

On Mother's Day, mothers in China will hold cooking competitions, fashion shows and other activities to celebrate their festivals. Various activities will be held in various places, such as organizing mother tours and selecting outstanding mothers.

According to the information on the Internet, Mother's Day first appeared in a report of Sina Sports in 2004, which reported that an American sports star did not spend Mother's Day with his mother for the first time in his life. Finally, the sports star comforted his dead mother with a victory in a basketball game. Filial piety is a fine tradition in China, so this article touched the netizens in China. Since then, American Mother's Day has taken root in the media in China, and articles about American Mother's Day have increased year by year. ?

Third, Mother's Day in China.

In 2004, Li, president of China Mother's Day Promotion Association, proposed to establish "China Mother's Day".

On June 3rd, 2006, Li, a member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, proposed to set up China people's own Mother's Day with the theme of "Creating Mother's Day in China", and suggested that it be the image representative of China's Mother's Day.

June 5438+February 2006 Festival Emblem Culture Committee of China People's Association, Zoucheng Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, Beijing Oriental Moral Institute,

Four core sponsors of "Mother's Day", including Shijiazhuang Comprehensive Practice Base for Primary and Secondary School Students, formally established the "China Mother's Day Promotion Association", determined the second day of the fourth lunar month, that is, the day when Meng Mu gave birth to Mencius, as China Mother's Day, and decided to hold a series of celebrations on the occasion of the first China Mother's Day.

On June 5438+February 65438+March 2007, the inaugural meeting and the first plenary meeting of the Mother's Day Promotion Association were held in Zoucheng, Shandong Province, Mencius' hometown. A proposal of "Creating Mother's Day in China" was issued at the meeting. The full text is as follows: Who has no mother in the world? Who in the world is not subject to maternal love? Who doesn't love mom in the world? Motherly love and loving mother are human nature, the starting point and cornerstone of love and the initial source of building a harmonious society. In today's building of a harmonious society, it should be put on the agenda to design Mother's Day in China, so that the inheritance wind can have a festival worthy of attention and careful recognition, and the children in the world can have a festival that is awakened and exquisitely expressed. This is a good platform for inheriting Chinese virtues, strengthening the education of minors, improving the quality of mothers, promoting family harmony, cultivating the love of the whole society and improving the moral level of the whole society.

Mencius' hometown, Zoucheng City, Shandong Province, has been handed down from generation to generation to commemorate Mencius' birthday, which has a corresponding basis in the book Three Movements in the Ming Wanli. Mencius' birthday is the second day of the fourth lunar month. It is more appropriate to regard this day as Mother's Day in China. In order to promote the establishment and development of Mother's Day in China, Chinese scholars and social workers from all over the country voluntarily formed a "Mother's Day Promotion Association" and started their work according to law.

Mother's Day in China coincides with Mother's Day in the West on 20 16.

Fourth, allusions and legends

1 Meng Mu moved three times.

Meng Mu moved three times: Mencius' mother moved many times to choose a good environment to educate her children. In case he doesn't learn well.

Source: Western Han Dynasty Liu Xiang's Biography of Woman Xia Volume I Mother Instrument: "Mencius was born with a gentle temperament, and his loving mother taught him to move three times when he was young."

2. The Legend of Wanger Mountain in Yingkou

On the southern plain of Liaoning, there is an ancient city of more than 2,000 years-Bayuquan Xiongyue City. In the sea green fruit forest in the east of Xiong Yue, there is a mountain with a butte protruding. There is a blue brick pagoda on the top of the mountain, which looks like a loving mother from a distance, looking into the distance and expecting her son to return as soon as possible. This mountain is called Wanger Mountain.

According to legend, a long time ago, the suburb of Xiong Yue was a beach. There is a poor family by the sea, only mother and son, living alone. The mother worked hard for her son to study, and the son was determined to repay his mother's kindness by studying hard to become a talent. Then my son went to Beijing by boat to catch the exam. Many years have passed and there has been no news of my son. Mother is very anxious, so she goes to the seaside to look out every day. One year, two years, three years ... the mother's hair turned gray, but her son was gone. Mother called to the sea again and again, "Come back, my child!" " ! Mom misses you, misses you ... "The elderly mother fell down and turned into a stone statue. She didn't expect her son to come back.

As a matter of fact, her son is on his way to Beijing to catch the exam, but unfortunately, he capsized and fell into the sea and died. God was moved by great maternal love, and a high mountain stood where the mother expected her son. The earth was moved by great maternal love, and the tears shed by my mother turned into underground hot springs, nourishing countless red apples; The villagers were moved by the great maternal love. They called the unique Xiufeng that rose from the ground "Wanger Mountain", and built a loving mother tower at the top of the mountain and a loving mother pavilion at the foot of the mountain to remind future generations of their mother's ordinary and great kindness.

With the development, the people of Bayuquan still retain the ancient style of respecting their mothers. On Mother's Day in May every year, we should carry out various activities to respect our mothers. Many people also set up inscriptions for their mothers in their mourning halls to show their respect for their mothers.

Ode to mother's ancient poems

The wandering son

The mother used the needle and thread in her hand to make clothes for her long-distance son.

Before leaving, I had a stitch for fear that my son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged.

But how much love an inch of grass has is three times!

Farewell to Old Mother Huang Qing Nakazawa

Bow curtain to the mother river beam, sorrow and tears in vain.

This is a tragic snowy night in Chai Men. It is better to have children than nothing at this time.

Wang Anshi in Song Dynasty during the Tenth Five-Year Plan Period

Put mother in the ditch and leave her home in the shade.

When I hear the news of Du Yu in the moonlight, the North and the South are always concerned.

Reaching home at the end of the year Qingjiang Shiquan

I love my son forever, and I am glad to go home. Cold clothes are needlework, and letters from home are ink.

If you encounter pity, you will ask for it. I am ashamed of the son of man and dare not sigh.

Don Bai Juyi's Mother Biezi

Mothers are different from children, and children are different from mothers. During the day, there are no lights and crying.

General Guan won a new title last year.

With a gift of 2 million yuan, Luoyang was welcomed like a flower.

New people welcome old people and abandon them, and the lotus in the palm is a thorn in the side.

It's not sad to say goodbye to the old year and welcome in the new year. It's sad to leave two children at home.

At the beginning, I walked with my hands. At the beginning, I sat and cried and grabbed people's clothes.

With your new beauty, my mother and son are separated.

It is best to have a crow and a magpie in the forest, and the mother will not lose young men and women.

It should be like a peach and plum tree in the garden, with flowers falling on the branches with the wind.

Everything comes to the net, newlyweds. Listen to me, Luoyang Infinite Red Chamber Girl.

I hope the general will make contributions and there will be more new people who are better than you.

"Mother's Love" Yuan Yang Weizhen

A loving mother loves her young, and Zhao is the Crown Prince.

The dragon and tiger are different every day, and the dog and horse look at the eagle.

Is it true that there are no six feet of loneliness under the knee, and a brother Zhao Wu has not been born?

At night, the ghost lights are blurred, and the snow leaks more than four drums.

If a hundred officials don't hold Dong Hu's pen, why do orphans and widows call it?

What is even more frightening is that it is a disaster for Han Wangjin to poke a silver axe in front of the bed.

Wang Yuan noodles in Xuan Mo Map

Brilliant day lily flowers, Luosheng North Hall.

The south wind blows its heart. Who does it vomit for?

A loving mother leans against the door, but a wanderer cannot walk.

I wish to be rare, but I am afraid of being rare.

Looking up at Yunlin, I am ashamed to listen to birds.

Who is Tang Hanyu's son?

Who is not crazy, who is not crazy, who will go to the Wangs to call a Taoist?

The old bald mother closed the door and cried, and her shirt sleeve was torn.

Cui Mei's bride, twenty years old, sent her home and cried all over the city.

Or Yun wants to learn to play Shengfeng, and Mu Lingfei is better than Shaw History.

It's also vulgar and ordinary, risking your position.

Although there are legends about immortals, everyone who knows them knows their falsehood.

Sages can be bullied, but how can they die of poverty?

Alas, Yu Xincheng is my brother, and I am willing to teach to the end.

It's never too late to punish a hundred strategies.

Whose friends and relatives can pity me and write my poems as gifts?

"Short Song" Tang

When a person is born, he rises at dawn. Going up the mountain late, going down the mountain ill.

Thirty-six thousand dynasties in a hundred years, half a day at night will be better.

There are songs and dances, so be sure to be early. Yesterday was better than today.

People see that men and women are good, but they don't know that men and women make people old.

Short songs, no music.

Tang Zhangwei's Answer to the Old Man in the North

The old man with a negative salary went to Zhou Bei. He looked at Wang Bei's hometown.

He said that the old man had three sons, all of whom died in Huangsha.

Now that the child has just grown up, he will confess next year.

If you know this, you will fall apart and you will not be able to live and die together.

Borrow a farm house from Wu next door, and then go to the country alone.

It's even harder to have more children.

Recently, it is said that the Emperor advocates martial arts and vegetables, while Qiang Bing wants to be quiet.

Ensuring border security is a long-term policy, so there is no need to expel China people.

Except at night, Don.

The cold light in the hotel stays awake alone, and the guest's heart becomes sad.

My hometown is thinking thousands of miles tonight, and the Ming Dynasty is worried for another year.

The Book of Songs Li Feng Kaifeng

The wind blew from the south, blowing his spine. It hurts to death, and the mother's family rewards it.

The wind blows from the south, and the wind blows from the other side. My mother is very kind, and I have no relatives.

Is there a chill in the spring? Under Xun. With seven children, my mother works very hard.

The yellow bird, with its voice. There are seven children, so don't comfort your mother.

Invigorating Downs Hole Diagram

A mother failed to teach well, so Sanyuan sent the kettle.

Shao Yun-yun's custom stops Yao Se, while Luan He flies low to brush the treasure furnace.