Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving Day) belongs to a particularly large festival in North America, especially for canadians and americans, the holiday is particularly important, even if people in a foreign land to back before the holiday with their family, altogether celebrates the holiday. Canadian Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day in the United States, however, is not in the same day, Thanksgiving Day in Canada is the second Monday in October each year, while the us is the last Thursday in November.
Why call Thanksgiving? Traced back, Thanksgiving is ancient and American indians, especially with the corn planting has a very close relationship. On September 6, 1620, a group of British Puritan unbearable religious persecution, take the "mayflower" wooden ship bound for America. They are fatigue, hunger, cold and disease under attack for 65 days in the Atlantic, finally arrived in Plymouth colonies in North America.
During the winter, cold climate, loneliness of the field. Local indians generously take out storage winter corn and potatoes, sent to hunt ducks and turkeys. The spring came, indians taught, they grow corn and pumpkin, raise turkeys. White settlers and the indians established a close friendship. For a big corn crop this year autumn, immigrants will held a hearty gratitude, with a roast Turkey and corn pastry treats the indians. The indians with a variety of corn products, roast Turkey and pumpkin pie, wild grapes and corn JiuJiang etc to the party, people sing songs and dances, burning it. Later in the corn harvest after the end of November each year, white immigrants settled in here are going to have a Thanksgiving, every roast Turkey, cooked corn food, hospitality indians. In the long term, this kind of gratitude can become a practice.
感恩節(Thanksgiving Day)在北美屬于一個特別大的節日，特別是對于加拿大人和美國人來說，這個節日特別重要，即使遠在異鄉的人也都要在節日前趕回去與家人團聚，共慶佳節。不過，加拿大的感恩節和美國的感恩節不在同一天，加拿大的感恩節是在每年10月的第2個星期一，而美國則是在11月的最后一個星期四。
為什么叫感恩節呢?追根溯源，感恩節是和美洲古代的印第安人有關，特別是和玉米的種植有十分密切的關系。1620年9月6日，一批英國清教徒難以忍受宗教的迫害，搭乘“五月花號”木船駛往美洲。他們在疲勞、饑餓、寒冷和疾病的襲擊下在大西洋上漂泊了65天，最后到達北美殖民地的普利茅斯。
當時正值冬季，氣候嚴寒，田野寂寥。當地印第安人慷慨地拿出貯藏越冬的玉米和土豆，送去獵獲的野鴨和火雞。春天來了，印第安人教他們種植玉米和南瓜，飼養火雞。白人移民和印第安人建立了親密的友誼。這年秋季玉米豐收，移民們舉行了豐盛的感恩會，用烤火雞和玉米糕點款待印第安人。印第安人帶著各種玉米制品、烤火雞、南瓜餡餅、野葡萄以及玉米酒漿等參加晚會，人們歡唱歌舞，通宵達旦。以后在每年玉米收獲后的11月底，定居在這里的白人移民都要舉行感恩會，家家烤火雞，烹制玉米食品，款待印第安人。長此以往，這種感恩會就成為一種慣例。
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