Thanksgiving day 感恩節(jié)的來由
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The European Origins of Thanksgiving
許多人認(rèn)為感恩節(jié)是北美的節(jié)日，但在更早之前的西歐社會，人們就已經(jīng)舉辦豐收慶典，感謝富饒大自然給予的恩賜。當(dāng)歐洲人移民到新大陸后，也帶來了這一傳統(tǒng)習(xí)俗。
Hello, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village I'm here today to tell you all about the history of Thanksgiving.
While people think of Thanksgiving as a North American holiday, one that goes back to the time of the earlier European settlers in North America. The fact is that Thanksgiving's roots actually go back much further. Thanksgiving's roots go actually across the Atlantic back into Europe which is where a lot of the harvest celebrations originated at least in terms of European Western society. You can find a lot of these harvest celebrations actually worldwide.
But, particularly around in Europe and just where you had like the cycles. And Europe definitely oscillatesbetween warm and cold. There are very strong definite seasons and you have the harvest period when you brought in all the crops that you had planted throughout the season, toiledover and you are getting ready to ride out the winter and then you have the harvest. Often times people would celebrate by having a feast during this time.
And, places like Northern France and England were no exception to this. And, many of these groups would get together and there would be, I mean these feasts would last over a period of days not just one meal. And as we start actually entering into a period of European migration to the new world a lot of these folks brought their customs with them."
The Origin of Thanksgiving Day Parades
化妝游行是感恩節(jié)一大習(xí)俗，最初是來自世界各地的移民們希望參與和慶祝節(jié)日、新家的一種方式。街上掛著各種大橫幅，人們穿著各種服飾聚集在一起唱歌跳舞、表演藝術(shù)手藝等。
Hello, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here today to tell you all about the history of Thanksgiving.
Something else we associate with Thanksgiving are parades. You know, watching the big floats on TV, on the wires and all the people and bands performing. Watching all like the bigger than life displays, all that going through major cities in America. This actually had it's start back in the 1920's. It was at that time that Thanksgiving was going on and there were a lot of new immigrants to the country and the immigrants also wanted to kind of partakeand celebrate.
Many of them wanted to celebrate their new home, but also like bring over some traditions from the old world or other parts of the world they were from and some of these other parts of the world celebrated in the form of parades. People getting together and marching, dressing up, doing all sorts of things, so people would do this, they started organizing Thanksgiving Day parades where they would dress up in costumes, clowns, in uniform, there would be even dancing and other, like arts and crafts going all throughout, parading right through the city. And some of these bigger parades then started adding some floats. You started getting some radio and television coverage, more sponsorship, and it exploded, nowadays to where you have enormous parades on Thanksgiving Day which people across the entire country watch."
Thanksgiving History of Pardoning the National Turkey
每年一度的總統(tǒng)放生火雞儀式始于1947年杜魯門總統(tǒng)當(dāng)政時期。被選中的火雞可以在農(nóng)場里自然地生老病死，隨心所欲地享受它的生活，沒選中的只能成為白宮美味的晚餐了。
Hello, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here today to tell you all about the history of Thanksgiving.
Since Thanksgiving became a national holiday, there have been a number of traditions and associated events around it which have kind of popped up, cropped up over the years and decades. One of these is the pardoning of the national turkey.
Now some things are known about this, other things are not. Often times of course we see on television the president pardoning the turkey. This turkey has been allowed to live out a natural life until it's natural demiseon the farm, where it's happy and gets it's fill of eating and doing whatever basically it wants. It lives, it has a very very good life.
But what you don't know is that that is not the only turkey in the process. Generally there are three turkeys. This began in the 1940's to which these three turkeys are presented to the president and the president picks one for pardoning. What happens to the other two? The other two are prepared for the White House Thanksgiving dinner. Yes, that is right. The other two turkeys do not make it. They are found wanting but for definitely, good eating."
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